Line of the Day (“Who Put You in Charge?” Edition)
Steven L. Taylor
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
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Jeb Bush at the Alfalfa Club dinner:
With two presidents in the family, he said, you got to deal with a lot of bossiness. “If I say, ‘Who put you in charge?’, Dad says, ‘The American people.’ And George says, ‘The Supreme Court, five to four.’ “
Classic.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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Bush the elder told a funny story on himself (funny to me, anyway). It was about his golf game. When he was president and playing golf, if he had a longish putt, his playing partners would all say, “Pick it up, Mr. President.” “Since I’m out of office, ” he said, “it’s always, ‘Putt it out George, putt it out.’ “
That’s hilarious!
I always did like Jeb. Would never vote for him but you can’t have it all.
Apparently it wasn’t even the best joke there. From the Washington Post:
“[former Justice] O’Connor waded into the Republican presidential campaign with a joke about Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich that drew a lot of laughter.
According to ESPN’s Tony Kornheiser, who was at the Capital Hilton for the dinner, O’Connor said that of the two leading Republican candidates, “one is a practicing polygamist, and he’s not even the Mormon.””
source
I’ve always liked the elder Bush, not that I voted for him or anything. I just admired his Naval Service. He was the youngest Naval Aviator ever at the time. He should have been called a war hero, not Crash McCain. All McCain ever did was crash 4 planes during training and then get shot down and captured. Big whoop.
The truth is often quite funny…the results of that truth, though, not so much…