During an interview on CNN, Bush said, "I have made a decision to make sure the economy doesn't collapse. I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system."
Scott Miller writes, "It's a statement so stunningly stupid, that when I heard Mark Levin discussing the comment, I thought he was joking for a minute."
Miller may have been dumbfounded by the remark, but it seems to me there is considerable competition for the title he bestowed on it: "The Dumbest Thing President Bush Has Ever Said."
As it is with former Vice President Dan Quayle, the title is in jeopardy every time Bush opens his mouth.
The World According to Bush
How about some of these gems from the 2000 campaign trail?
"One of the great things about books is, sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.""I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
"I think we all agree, the past is over."
"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together."
"I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program."
Or these choice comments made prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks:
"It was amazing I won. I was running against peace and prosperity and incumbency."
Upon meeting Queen Elizabeth, Bush said, "She was neat."
"[W]e would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country."
See what I mean?
And that doesn't even include these comments, which were made in the months and years after the attack:
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."
"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — [pauses] — shame on you. Fool me — I can't get fooled again."
You may have noticed that I didn't mention Bush's characterization of Al Gore's economic policies as "fuzzy math" — a phrase that could easily be applied to the accounting practices that have been encouraged in recent years and that American taxpayers are now having to bail out.
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