After criticizing Maureen Dowd for her column on indie film, it’s only fair for me to note that her tone of short-attention-span mockery was the perfect fit for Bush’s Potemkin-Village-style “economic summit.” Choice description:
He managed to last for 20 minutes each in four economic seminars at Baylor University. He dutifully scribbled some notes as participants talked, looking as happy as a high school kid in trig class, and bounded out of his chair when Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill told him he could be excused.
“Yes, well,” a visibly relieved Mr. Bush said, jumping up after an exhausting 18 minutes in “Economic Recovery and Job Creation,” “that’s the life of the president. Always has to go.” |
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