Bartlett Delivers Perfect Expression Of Bush's Up-Is-Downism
Courtesy of departing Bush adviser Dan Bartlett, here it is -- the perfect expression of the Bush White House's all-consuming up-is-downism:
“It’s been a roller coaster that seems always to go up,” Bartlett said of his White House years.
Yep -- just perfect.
(H/T Wonkette.)
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Next job Fox News talker? Nahh, he's too ugly.
June 1, 2007 5:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
He must be resigning because he's innocent of any crimes.
June 1, 2007 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
In English, you say: "the harder they come, the harder they fall". In Polish, we say "first lift him, but high; then bury him, but deep". Sooner or later, that rollercoaster will stop climbing...
June 1, 2007 8:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, FYI, in English (at least American English, I think British English as well) we say "the bigger they are, the harder they fall." Alternatively, and probably more applicable here, we also say "what goes up, must come down."
June 2, 2007 2:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
-- Thomas Paine
and of course the seminal,
"One do will always do, where two do's do."
-- ww
June 2, 2007 8:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
I guess Jimmy Cliff has succeeded in replacing the original expression, huh? It happens...
June 2, 2007 8:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
We have a wheel like that by the Thames that's the same way - it goes up for a long time, but it always comes down.
AC
June 2, 2007 9:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yet some corporation in the private sector will give this fatuous fool a job at seven figures a year to lie for them the same way he has lied for Bush.
June 2, 2007 11:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't the "spending more time with the family" excuse just another way of saying "Holy cow! I'm about to be indicted!"?
Why is he leaving now? Seems odd.
And how did someone so young get to be so influential?
He must have laughed at all of George's jokes.
June 2, 2007 2:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I doubt laughing at George is as funny at the White House as it is to the rest of us.
Best, Terry
June 2, 2007 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I suppose that's a better description than "The Little Engine Who Could."
June 4, 2007 9:56 AM | Reply | Permalink