I had the line in my head today but damn ifMatt Taibbi doesn’t bring it:
I’ll say this for George Bush: you’d never have caught him
frantically negotiating against himself to take the meat out of a
signature legislative initiative just because his approval ratings had
a bad summer. Can you imagine Bush and Karl Rove allowing themselves to
be paraded through Washington on a leash by some dimwit Republican
Senator of a state with six people in it the way the Obama White House
this summer is allowing Max Baucus (favorite son of the mighty state of
Montana) to frog-march them to a one-term presidency?
To quote Method Man’s Calvin “Cheese” Wagstaff character fromThe Wire, “This is some shameless shit right here.”
