The Four-Dollar Surprise

George Walker Bush either displayed ignorance or revealed knowing something the rest of us don't (the latter possibility highly unlikely, and barely even a possibility) by insisting that the economy is sound and that a recession is not inevitable. He also sounded surprised that gasoline could actually go up to $4 a gallon by year's end.

Such cluelessness, alas, is a common trait among the Bushes. Remember when President George H.W. Bush went to a supermarket in 1991 and found out that grocery stores use electronic price scanners?

And how long had that been going on? Oh, since about the mid-seventies, when the older Bush was director of the CIA. He didn't get an intelligence briefing on that?

Tomorrow is primary day in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont, so on March 4, citizens in those four states wishing to exercise their right to vote should . . . march forth. :-)