Bad Day in the Rose Garden
By GAIL COLLINS
NYT
It’s very easy, in our chaotic world, to lose track. Did you know, for instance, that “ER” is still on television? That “The Phantom of the Opera” is still on Broadway? That Hugh Hefner is still dating?
It was in this spirit that I looked up at CNN on Wednesday and noted that George W. Bush is still the president.
Yes! There he was in the Rose Garden, unveiling his plan for reducing the price of oil. A little grayer, but strangely unchanged. When he was complaining about the way the Democrats wrote last year’s omnibus spending bill, I swear I heard him call it the “ominous spending bill.”
In a major change of policy, the president announced that he wanted to end a federal ban on offshore drilling and open up drillers’ access to the outer continental shelf.
He repeatedly referred to the outer continental shelf as “the O.C.S.,” making the whole proposal sound a little like a search for energy sources in an old teen TV series.
(Continued here.)
NYT
It’s very easy, in our chaotic world, to lose track. Did you know, for instance, that “ER” is still on television? That “The Phantom of the Opera” is still on Broadway? That Hugh Hefner is still dating?
It was in this spirit that I looked up at CNN on Wednesday and noted that George W. Bush is still the president.
Yes! There he was in the Rose Garden, unveiling his plan for reducing the price of oil. A little grayer, but strangely unchanged. When he was complaining about the way the Democrats wrote last year’s omnibus spending bill, I swear I heard him call it the “ominous spending bill.”
In a major change of policy, the president announced that he wanted to end a federal ban on offshore drilling and open up drillers’ access to the outer continental shelf.
He repeatedly referred to the outer continental shelf as “the O.C.S.,” making the whole proposal sound a little like a search for energy sources in an old teen TV series.
(Continued here.)
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