One More Presidential Dig

Getting tired of seeing my icon next to the little ass and elephant? Gotta be me!

Molly Ivins (who has one sexy soul and is a great writer) has a great article about The UncompassionateConservative (our POTUS ) at MotherJones.com.

What you end up with is a guy who sees himself as a perfectly nice fellow — and who is genuinely disconnected from the impact of his decisions on people.

During the presidential debate in Boston in 2000, Bush said, “First and foremost, we’ve got to make sure we fully fund LIHEAP [the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program], which is a way to help low-income folks, particularly here in the East, pay their high fuel bills.” He then sliced $300 million out of that sucker, even as people were dying of hypothermia, or, to put it bluntly, freezing to death.

Posted by etrigan at December 2, 2003 3:00 PM