Charlie Rangel on bush, "I had no idea what the hell he was talking about."

Washington Post Article by Peter Baker.

The few times Bush actually comes face to face with critics, another coping mechanism emerges:
In some cases, Baker writes, "Bush can seem disengaged. When he flew to New York to visit a
Harlem school and promote his education program, he brought along New York congressmen
on Air Force One, including Democrat Charles B. Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means
Committee. The White House was in the midst of tough negotiations with Rangel over trade pacts.
But Bush did not try to cut a deal with Rangel, chatting instead about baseball. 'He talked a lot
about the Rangers,' Rangel said. 'I didn't know what the hell he was talking about.'"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/07/02/BL2007070200943.html

Know what the hell this asshole in the WH is talking about! It would be better if he just stfu.

But why bush was talking about it with Rangel while in the midst of negotiations is just strange. Neither the time nor the place to talk about baseball.

The infamous Bush Bubble seems largely intact. One "senior House Republican who
met with Bush recently" tells Baker: "There's nobody there who can stand up to him
and tell him, 'Mr. President, you've got to do this. You're wrong on this.' There's no
adult supervision. It's like he's oblivious.

professional ballplayers, thus that's what he talked about. He's so dumb he probably thought when Rangel mentioned "trade pacts" that he was talking about baseball - chimp's point of reference as a former owner.

Unbelievable that millions voted for the idiot.

that sounds like it could be a passage from JH Hatfield's "Fortunate Son".

interesting article. I agree that Bush is acting like an alcoholic acts--seeing things in black and white, and being in denial over his own actions. In fact, I believe he has fallen off the wagon, making his judgment even less sound than before.

He's talking about the Rangers? The Texas Rangers? Wasn't that one of those balmy eras in his life when he was a figurehead in the team's management/ownership (he was the glad-handing guy they propped up out there when it was time to schmooze people at cocktail parties, trotting out his marquee-value name, lineage, and connections). It was a lot of fun, easy money, the best seats at all the games, taxpayers paying for his big new stadium and all that parking. And all he had to do was bring in more high-rollers who wanted their pictures taken with him (because after all, look who his father was, just think of who he knows, and besides, he might be somebody himself, someday. And all he had to do was show up every now and then and smile and have a good-ol-boy good time schmoozing with other bigshots. NOBODY getting in his face about anything, or giving him a hard time about anything, or questioning his motives, or challenging his statements. None of that inconvenient, annoying bummer stuff, and absolutely no accountability AT ALL.

Those were the days. The good old days. Sheer heaven to a george w. bush type. No wonder he was so preoccupied with talk of the Rangers. Or maybe he had some misbegotten idea that the New York Congressman was Charlie Ranger.