Republicans Derailed
Further proof for my Feb. 21st article “Politics Creeps In” (see article below). Bruce Bartlett doesn’t drink Bush’s Kool-Aid!
Republican economist Bruce Bartlett (Wikipedia biography, Fresh Air interview) has impressive conservative credentials. He worked in the administrations of both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush; was one of the architects of Reagan’s 1981 tax cut; and has worked at the Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, and National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). He’s certainly qualified to know a conservative when he sees one.
He has written the book Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy which got him fired from the NCPA.
Whether you believe in Freudian slips or mere coincidence, I think Bartlett’s recent appearance on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart was quite telling:
Bruce Bartlett: I think conservatives would like to believe that they at least make the trains run on time.
Jon Stewart: So they follow Mussolini’s theory on government?
Bartlett: I realized that was not a good thing to say as the words were coming out of my mouth!
