His microprocessor was an old 8088 anyway, it had to give out one of these days.
Posted by Ron In Portland at August 9, 2004 08:49 PMWow. Finally, a bit of honesty from the man. He better watch that, though. Karl Rove will slap a muzzle on him if he doesn't watch that.
Posted by Brian Bell at August 9, 2004 09:03 PMHe's been spewing more and more inadvertent honesty these days. Hope the dam is about to burst. Can't wait until the debates when he flings himself on the floor and weeps, shouting that he's a cokehead war criminal who never did an honest day of work in his life and should be in prison in the Hague. Then he'll wet himself.
Posted by MrHappy at August 9, 2004 09:33 PMMaybe he'll start dancing and do the Robot.
Posted by phidipides at August 9, 2004 11:17 PMH shld hv skd Mrs. Hnz-Krry t dmnstrt hw t's dn.
[Editor: ignore=off]I love that line. How fucking pathetically true. What's really sad is that it was pointed out on Kos that this latest 'gaffe' is actually a part of his stump speech!!
Yeah, that's right, he says this on purpose, repeatedly, like it's a good thing...
This calls for a Dean-like scream:
YEARRRRGH!!
Posted by Disillusioned at August 10, 2004 12:33 AMI guess he should know.
Posted by John B. at August 10, 2004 05:44 AMHe said the same thing last week! Could it be that this is not a gaffe, but something they think people will respond to?
Posted by Upper West at August 10, 2004 06:15 AM"the really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway."
See. Even the idiot son of George Bush confirms the need to take things from wealthy people by force.
Its more of his "I am just as common as dirt" rhetoric. I still want to know how he got that drawl at Kennebunkport.
Posted by phidipides at August 10, 2004 08:00 AMStunning that that line is part of a stump speach. Do Bush and his handlers realize that a basic sense of fairness is critical to the American self image? And saying that the rich shouldn't be taxed because they are going to dodge the taxes anyway flies directly in the face of this sense of fair play in a way that is almost impossible to spin?
Keep up the good work Bush. More of that please. The middle class will eat it up, I promise.
Posted by Growth Factor at August 10, 2004 10:12 AMIf they dodge taxes, why GIVE THEM MONEY by way of cuts? Make 'em work for it, I say.
And if they're already dodging the taxes, why do we have a deficit? I mean, if they didn't pay anything, and we cut that, shouldn't they still not be paying anything, and so the net change is zero?
Or are we subsidizing the lazy cheats? Smacks of welfare to me. Didn't we change all that to workfare? When can we expect the rich blokes to show up at my local McDonald's? How does a megamillionaire say, "Supersize it? For here or to go?" Soon, I hope.
Then again, that'd rob someone of a job they needed, one of the few this president has created.
Ed