As indicated earlier this week, the president has signed the $286 billion highway bill into law.
Upon signing it at a ceremony in suburban Chicago, our fearless leader once again demonstrated his remarkable ability to state the obvious:
"Highways just don't happen," Bush said. "People have got to show up and do the work to refit a highway or build a bridge, and they need new equipment to do so. So the bill I'm signing is going to help give hundreds of thousands of Americans good-paying jobs."
Here I thought all the work on the Marquette Interchange downtown was being done by a mysterious colony of highway building monkeys.
posted by Scott @ 8:56 PM
4 Comments:
I like sarcasm, however yours is sub-par.
The George Bush quote, while delivered in English for the average human to comprehend, can be challenging for liberal-minded folks.
So for the liberally impaired, here is what this quote means:
“Yeah, it’s a big bloated highway bill. Not what I would have liked, but I had to pay off your congressman and senators in order to get a package passed. At the same time, remember that all of this construction means good paying jobs. This bill doesn’t just take money from the country’s producers and hand it over to bureaucrats or people who refuse to work. This bill actually builds roads that you will use to get to work and the people receiving most of the money will actually be working.”
See, that was not so hard, was it?
See… Republicanisms are not hard to comprehend. You don’t need to pull monkey’s out of your ass – you can do it – you can understand if you will just try a little bit harder.
Anonymous,
Thank you for critique of my sub-par sarcasm. In the future, our research team will be feeding all posts containing sarcasm through our new Sarc-o-Meter in order to avoid embarassing situations like this one.
Also, "monkey's" is possessive and "monkeys" is plural. I quibble, but it's just a pet peeve of mine.
On a less sarcastic note, I agree with your point that Bush agreed to a lot of pork in order to get this bill through. Unfortunately, this type of spending has been all too common under both Dem and GOP administrations. I think it's particularly offensive when we're at war, cutting taxes, and running record deficits.
And here I was going to point out that the monkeys designed the Marquette Interchange. I must have completely missed out on the sarcasm. Thanks, Anonymous!
Scott,
Your use of sarcasm in this post is actually quite good! Well done in fact.
Sorry about the monkey thing – late night error.
It is bad to pork up a budget anytime. War or not.
Agreeably disagreeing with you has been a pleasure.
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