As if more proof were needed that George W. Bush is a congenital liar, he’s now claiming that his use of the phrase “Democrat majority” in the State of the Union speech this month was a slip of the tongue:
“That was an oversight,” Bush said in an interview Monday with National Public Radio. “I’m not trying to needle … I didn’t even know I did it…
“I didn’t mean to be putting fingernails on the board. I meant to be saying, Why don’t we show the American people we can actually work together?”
That excuse might be marginally believable if he hadn’t been reading from a script that said “Democratic majority.”
Here’s what we know for certain: Anyone who uses “Democrat” as an adjective is an asshole. Here’s proof:
the term became controversial as far back as the 1950s. Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) famously used it to deride Democrats during his hearings investigating whether Communists had infiltrated the U.S. government.
It isn’t like we Democrats are disappointed when jerks like the president and others in his party use the term to needle us.It is what we have come to expect.
What is disappointing is that this president feels no compunction about using the State of the Union speech to extend one hand in bipartisanship while ussing the other slap us in the face — and then saying it was a slip up.
Go peddle it somewhere else, GOoper.
Elevating distrust?!: “And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I’m sorry it’s the case, and I’ll work hard to try to elevate it.” -President Bush, NPR, January 29, 2007 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7065633