Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Too Bad He Didn't
201k.com, September 01, 2005:
- David Brooks--a punch-me-faced prep if there ever was one--seems to understand the political danger that New Orleans poses better than President Bush does, though Brooks is of course too much of a toadie to say it plainly.
Toadies succeed, after all, in the GOP world. Wildly.
The difference between Brooks and the President--the reason Brooks has a slight recognition of reality here while Bush as usual has none--is that Brooks was probably beat up in school a few times, while no one ever dared lay a hand on GHWB's son.
Too bad--he'd have been a better man for it.
- Son also rises in testy Webb-Bush exchange
By Emily Heil
President Bush has pledged to work with the new Democratic majorities in Congress, but he has already gotten off on the wrong foot with Jim Webb, whose surprise victory over Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) tipped the Senate to the Democrats.
Webb, a decorated former Marine officer, hammered Allen and Bush over the unpopular war in Iraq while wearing his son's old combat boots on the campaign trail. It seems the president may have some lingering resentment.Ê
At a private reception held at the White House with newly elected lawmakers shortly after the election, Bush asked Webb how his son, a Marine lance corporal serving in Iraq, was doing.
Webb responded that he really wanted to see his son brought back home, said a person who heard about the exchange from Webb.
"I didn't ask you that, I asked how he's doing," Bush retorted, according to the source.
Webb confessed that he was so angered by this that he was tempted to slug the commander-in-chief, reported the source, but of course didn't.
