Bush confirms he’s clueless on postal reform
Postcom.org notes that George Bush was questioned about postal reform legislation at yesterday’s National Newspaper Association. His response:
“Frankly, this issue hadn’t made it to my desk prior to me arriving at this meeting. I’m mindful of the bill. I need to know more about the particulars before I make you a commitment one way or the other.”
Now, given that the guy threatened to make the bill as passed by the Senate the target of his first veto, you’d think it might have rung a bell?
Thanks to Postcom too for pointing out that Bush’s point man on postal reform, former Domestic Policy Advisor Claude Allen, was arrested yesterday in an alleged department store refund scam.
March 12th, 2006 18:31
memo to postal “community”: no, you really aren’t all that important! No president since Richard Nixon has any idea of what the Postal Service and its hangers on really do. Deal with it.
March 12th, 2006 20:02
I think you’re confusing Bush with the office of the President. It’s a common mistake, although fewer people are making it these days.
I don’t doubt that George had no clue what the questioner was asking about, veto threat notwithstanding. And certainly, Dick Cheney, and the others actually running the White House have no particular need for the Postal Service. What is ‘all that important’ to them, though, is the $3.1 billion in free money they’d lose if the current reform bill passed. Period.
Thanks for bringing up Nixon, though- I bet a lot of current postal people would be amazed at how important the issue of the Post Office was for a time during the Nixon Administration. I know I was surprised by it some years back when I read the Haldeman Diaries.
March 14th, 2006 23:21
All of this hard to imagine. Perhaps when Bush was in school he fell through the cracks as it were, for there wasn’t a NO Child Left Behind piece of Legislation. All of this makes one ask the question is Stupidity and Impeachable Offense???????????????
March 16th, 2006 18:54
Apparently not, but then again, it seems that even admitting that you committed a felony by spying on Americans without a warrant isn’t impeachable either. As far as I can tell, cheating on your wife with an intern (and getting caught) is the only thing you can actually be impeached for now.