“No one realized how bad the economy was. The projections, in fact, turned out to be worse. But we took the mainstream model as to what we thought — and everyone else thought — the unemployment rate would be.”<\/p>\n
“Everyone guessed wrong at the time the estimate was made about what the state of the economy was at the moment this was passed.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
When is the last time you heard something this amazingly stupid?<\/p>\n
Most people have probably never heard of old Cactus Jack Garner. That\u2019s because for many years the VP was little more than an emergency backup with no real duties. That is unless the President died and naturally his duties grew substantially.<\/p>\n
That really didn\u2019t change until Reagan came along. He tapped GW Bush who had been an Ambassador to China and head of the CIA and Reagan\u2019s biggest perceived weakness (as with all Governors) was foreign policy. Bush brought too much to the table to waste and soon found himself to be one of the most engaged VP\u2019s in history until that point.<\/p>\n
Bush 41 didn\u2019t follow Reagan\u2019s example however by picking a solid conservative but neophyte Dan Quayle. Late night comedians loved him but not anyone else. Clinton picked Al Gore and cemented the position strongly back into the \u201cwarm bucket of piss\u201d category.<\/p>\n
Bush 43 revived the position in a huge way with Dick Cheney but then Obama picked Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
So what did we end up with for the first time? <\/p>\n
Now we have a man dumber than \u201ca warm bucket of piss.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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