Of course we knew this all along. When President George W. Bush is with his cronies behind closed doors and the cameras are (supposedly)turned off, sometimes he lets a little truth slip out.
Greg Mitchell of The Huffington Post reports that Houston's ABC affiliate has produced embarrassing footage of Bush at a local fund-raiser for Pete Olson, blaming Wall Street for "getting drunk" and screwing up the American economy.
In footage obtained by reporter Maya Shay, a smirking Bush says:
It is uncertain, there’s no question about it.
Wall Street got drunk, it got drunk, (it’s one of the reasons I asked you to turn off your tv cameras.) It got drunk and now it’s got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up, and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments.
And now we got a housing issue, not in Houston, and evidently, not in Dallas, because Laura was over there trying to buy a house today. (laugher.. Crawford!)
I like Crawford, unfortunately after eight years of asking her to sacrifice, I’m now no longer the decision maker. She’ll be deciding, thanks for the suggestion! I suggest you don’t yell it out when she’s here. Later, telling her "Hey honey, we’ve been on government pay now for 14 years... so go slow!"
It’s uh.. caused me to lose my train of thought. Anyway.
Watch it.
If American corporations are drunk, then surely it is the Republicans (with their deregulation, tax cuts and adoration of greed)that bought Wall Street the hooch. Officially, we'll hear that the economy is correcting itself...that the bad times are in our heads...that we're whining. But in private, Bush and his ilk know exactly what happened. Indeed, they made it all possible.
For any Joe or Jane Q. Public who still believes the Bush administration and Republicans care about average people, take note: There is no housing crisis, because Laura is able to go a-hunting for mansions in Dallas. (And you wondered how long it would take the Bushes to leave Crawford, Texas, once their reign of terror ended. Now you know.)
This video, which has already disappeared from You Tube, ought to awaken the American public to the wanton callousness of the Republican Party. But will it?