February 08, 2004
What Russert Should Have Asked
Brad DeLong had a series of questions with followup that Tim Russert should have asked. My favorite was:
Mr. President, Republicans in the House and the Senate are outraged that the administration's Medicare staff thinks that last December's Medicare bill will cost much, much more than the $400 billion cap your staff promised them, isn't that right?
[Follow up] Last week you said that that this was as much a surprise to you as to anyone else--that you had only learned of this large extra expense two weeks ago, isn't that right?
[Follow up] That means that HHS Secretary "Tommy" Thompson, Treasury Secretary John Snow, and OMB Director Josh Bolten kept from you--for months--their staff's estimates of the costs of the Medicare bill you signed last December. Why do you think they did this?
[Follow up] The president of the United States is not a mushroom--not something to be kept in the dark and fed compost, is he?
Brad follows this up with a report on the actual interview.
Posted by Mary at February 8, 2004 12:05 PM | TrackBackthere is a simple question to ask bush, "Name one human being you served with in Alabama?"
My goodness Bush is president of the US, there are people who are telling friends they went to grade school with him, or college, or knew him when he was in business etc, yet no one has ocme forward to say, "hey, I served with the guy"
Think about it, he is a celebrity, the president and no one says they served with him, it defies common sense, yet the right wing (as usual) manages to get the story to be about anything other than common snese and the guy who gets his paycheck from General Electric cannot ask a tough question, "Mr. president, why is there not one person who can vouch for your story by saying he or she served with you during the time in question?"
Come on, if any one of us knew clinton or bush at any time we would be telling someone.