Newspeak Alert

Shoe dodger-in chief Bush today:

"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,"

The biggest joke about this is that the vast majority of people, particularly on the left, regard Bush as some kind of free market zealot. In reality he has been no more of a friend of free markets than Nixon, Carter, or Clinton. He also gave a typically articulate justification for his socialist economic policies:

"I feel a sense of obligation to my successor to make sure there is not a, you know, a huge economic crisis. Look, we're in a crisis now. I mean, this is -- we're in a huge recession, but I don't want to make it even worse."

Don't worry Georgie, you already have.