Did you hear our soon-to-be-former President’s farewell press conference? I thought the high point came when he remarked that the press had “misunderestimated” him. {snark!} The man just can’t leave bad enough alone.
Another excellent moment arrived when he observed that he came into the presidency in a recession and is leaving it in a recession, but in between (like, oh, say the proverbial night bird flying through windows of the lighted beer hall) the economy has thrived. I will refrain from exclaiming Jesus H. Christ. Well, no. I won’t. As I recall, the country had no deficit (in fact, we had a budget surplus) when the Shrub took office, nor was anyone speculating about the onset of a second Great Depression.
What a moron. What a shameful episode in our country’s history. Heaven help us all now.
I was appalled by the press conference. I think the misunderestimate remark was actually deliberate, a joke, but the silence was deafening from the press corps. His remarks about the recession were lies — as I recall the economy was doing just fine, with no deficet and a huge budget surplus, when he came into office. Slightly recessed perhaps, with a big housing bubble to worry about, so that surplus would have come in handy as a stimulus, or to address the inevitable foreclosure crisis proactively instead…we got the idiot and now, we are totally f**ked. Thank all that is good that the grownups are coming back to DC in a week.
When he started to cavort around, that was when I got upset. But then…what the heck. I get upset every time I hear that man’s voice.
I don’t think the housing bubble came into being during the Clinton years. My house had increased in value at about 6% a year, which is normal in this part of the country. It wasn’t until about five years ago that values started to run amok…which would put the bubble smack in the middle of the Shrub Administration.