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2/22/2004 01:48:00 AM | Justin "Didn't we already give them a break at the top?...What are we doing on compassion?" -Bush on tax cuts, to his inner cabinet. Paul Krugman has a reviewof "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill", by Ron Suskind, in the New York Times Review of Books. The Suskind book received most of its coverage because in it O'Neill, the former White House Treasurer, claimed the Bush administration was planning to go to war with Iraq before September 11'th. But there are also some less publicized nuggets of white house conversation contained in its pages, like the following little exchange that allegedly took place between Bush and his inner cabinet: They also knew that their policies heavily favored rich people—indeed, in an uncharacteristic moment Bush himself seemed uneasy over the tilt, asking, "Didn't we already give them a break at the top?" And when Bush asked, "What are we doing on compassion?," no one answered. -Krugman "What are we doing on compassion?" How great is that? Even as a liberal, I find his naivete strangely endearing. Unfortunately, these personal doubts didn't stop him from insisting in public that "the vast majority of my tax cut goes to the bottom of the economic spectrum", as Krugman points out. Dick Cheney must have really had to slap him back into shape for that one. perma link |
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