Home > Window on Washington > Archives > 2007 > April > 03 > Entry
You Know, Those Other Guys
Some rhetorical progress to report today at President Bush’s Rose Garden press conference. He is coming to terms with the name of the majority party in the United States Congress.
“In a time of war, it’s irresponsible for the Democrat leadership in, Democratic leadership in Congress to delay for months on end while our troops in combat are waiting for the funds,” he said.
Right the second time. It is the Democratic Party. It’s led by Democratic leadership, not Democrat leadership. Democrats long have complained that many Republicans intentionally say Democrat Party as some kind of partisan slur.
Bush did say “Democrat leaders” a couple of other times during the news conference. So this remains a work in progress,
Other moments of note on a sunny spring day in the Rose Garden. Bush cleared up confusion about which Bill he was calling on (CBS’ Plante or the Washington Examiner’s Sammon) by saying “The cute-looking one.” That would be television’s Bill Plante.
From the Department of New Presidential Nicknames, Bush called on NBC’s David Gregory by referring to him as “Dancer. Dancing man,” a reference to Gregory’s recent back-up dancer role at the Radio and TV Correspondents Association dinner that featured rappin’ Karl Rove.
“That was a beautiful performance, seriously,” Bush told Gregory not seriously.
And emergency sirens from somewhere in nearby DC were clearly heard as Bush was reeling of the dire consequences he sees if the U.S. withdraws from Iraq before the war is won.
Permalink | |
