If JFK would have known Bush was up to this he would have called them "Jackasses" as well.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48216-2004Mar10.html?referrer=email
Bush came up with the ingenious idea to develop an office of manufacturing jobs, swift on the heels of the failure of their brilliant idea to reclassify fast food workers as manufacturing workers. "Business groups praised plans for the new position, which quickly became known among industry officials as a "manufacturing czar.""
The Washington Post (so it may not be true) is reporting that the man Bush chose to address the loss of manufacturing jobs, Anthony F. Raimondo, chairman and chief executive of a Nebraska company that makes metal buildings and grain silos, laid off 75 workers in 2002 and opened a plant in CHINA!
I can only imagine the world class jackassery on this level, but this seems to me to be some sort of jackass hat trick, home run and 97-yard punt return for a touchdown jackassery of a "big time" bunch of jackasses.
"Seventy-five minutes after the administration announced a news conference with Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans to name the official, an advisory went out saying the event had been "postponed due to scheduling conflicts.""
How will this play in the Buckeye State?
"When Bush announced the new position Sept. 1, he noted that the nation had "lost thousands of jobs in manufacturing . . . some of it because production moved overseas." He made the announcement in Ohio, which last year suffered the second-worst job losses of any state, mostly in manufacturing."
In the immortal words of Bono, that's "Effing Brilliant." Well, close to his words anyway.