I'll have more on the speech tomorrow. For now, it was good -- real good. In fact, if you closed your eyes and cleared your mind, you would've sworn a Big Government Democrat was on the podium. And then, when you open them back up, you read TLaura's blog (which is great, by the way) and are dumped right back in reality:
Too fucking perfect. According to David Kuznet at TNR, it wasn't Gerson who wrote the masterpiece. It was Bush's new head speechwriter, William McGurn. Just how completely phony was the speech? McGurn is a former editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page! All that big-government-conservatism, your-government-is-there-for-you pap Bush was spouting had been penned by one of those WSJ drown-it-in-the-bathtub, government-is-the-enemy hyper-libertarians, whose ex-colleagues have, among other things, been urging Bush to use Katrina as an excuse to push school vouchers on the exiled flood victims moving into other communities! Oh Democrats, Democrats, wherefore art thou?
