Typical Bush

Here's an interesting story that is typical Bush...

Two weeks ago (just a week after the State of the Union address), 32 employees of the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory were laid off due to Bush's budget cuts. This laboratory is, according to the Energy Department website, the "premier laboratory for renewable energy research and development and a leading laboratory for energy efficiency R&D". But that's just the beginning.

Yesterday, as part of his yes-I-am-(sorta)-serious-about-renewable-energy PR campaign, President Bush gave a speech at that same Energy Laboratory. The day before this speech, realizing how it would look for the President to speak at the lab where he'd just axed over two dozen employees (including eight researchers), the White House immediately reinstated the jobs. In his remarks yesterday, the President called the lay-offs a "discrepancy" and apologized for any "mixed signals" that were sent.

That's George W. Bush's governing in a nutshell right there.

If you're worried about losing your job, pray that Bush will need to use your office for a photo-op.

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