Molly Ivins: No More Years (favorite moments from a one term presidency)

[Dudley_DUright]

Four more years?

Seems like every group and its hamster has put out some kind of dossier on the last four years. Top Bush Lies. One Hundred Mistakes Bush could admit to. Best scandals. Biggest Bush flip-flops. Iraq. The economy. The environment.

Corporate pork and payoffs galore. Homeland insecurity. The deficit. On and on it goes.

But I like to remember the little things, those itty-bitty things that really made it special. Those touches of style. The je ne sais quoi of it all. Like choosing Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday to announce his administration would oppose affirmative action in the University of Michigan case, calling it "divisive," "unfair" and "unconstitutional." Classy timing. Of course, Bush (Andover, Yale, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Harvard Business, three failed oil companies rescued by Daddy's friends, set up by Daddy's friends in baseball and given a huge cut for a tiny investment) never experienced affirmative action in his life. Made it all on his own, pulled himself up by his bootstraps -- black people can do it, too.

Timing is kind of a Bush specialty. In February 2001, the day a major earthquake hit the Northwest, Bush killed a federal program designed to help communities deal with the effects of natural disasters. Of course, Florida in an election year -- different story.

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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17894

[TaleWgnDg]

1. G'bless Miss Molly for she has suberb tongue-in-cheek humor . . .

may she sit at the right hand of God . . . heh.


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[Raster]

5. love your little "not worthy" guys!!!

[TaleWgnDg]

6. welcome and "steal" at will . . . eh.

[Catt03]

2. Thanks...great article

funny but sadly true.

[nosmokes]

3. this is one of her best.

her litany of the sqworm putting his foot in it is so rich. no one manipulates the language with as much flavor as molly.

[TimeToGo]

4. Very good

I hope it is read by many.

[Sugarbleus]

7. I've only recently been turned on to Molly.. I'M IN LOVE!!

Watched her speak to some group on C-span the other day. I was awestruck. What a gal. She's my kind of girlfriend.

GO MOLLY!!

[JohnOneillsMemory]

8. Kick. Molly rocks. I got to work with her the night of the 2nd prez debate

I ran the sound system for her appearance in Redwood City, CA on 10/8.

I brought a little pocket TV to catch the debate and plugged into the massive sound system for the 6pm PST debate.

Molly got to the theater at 7pm and borrowed my TV to finish watching the debate in her dressing room backstage. She was taking notes and as serious as a grave, all business.

Gave a great speech which helped us all recover from having to watch Dubya lie all evening.

[realFedUp]

9. Glad Molly has a long memory and good notes!

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Timing is kind of a Bush specialty. In February 2001, the day a major earthquake hit the Northwest, Bush killed a federal program designed to help communities deal with the effects of natural disasters. Of course, Florida in an election year -- different story.

Remember when he went to visit the rescued miners from Quecreek, Pa.?

It was a great photo op. Except the year before, Bush had cut the mine safety budget, halted regulatory improvements and reduced enforcement of safety standards. The Department of Labor stopped work on more than a dozen mine safety regulations from the Clinton years. But hey, Bush was really glad those nine guys made it out alive. And what a photo-op it was.

You probably don't remember the time he visited the Youth Opportunity Center, a job training site in Portland, Ore. Hailed it as a model, praised the center and its staff. A month later, he cut it out of the budget.