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'And Now, Quotations That Said It All . . .'
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Plus: Brownie's e-mails would eventually make him look like an even bigger boob.
"I got it at Nordsstroms [sic]," Brownie wrote of his outfit while Katrina was bearing down on the Gulf Coast. Then he added: "Are you proud of me? Can I quit now? Can I go home?"
Yes, yes and yes, Brownie.
But we digress. Back to the presidential money quote:
"I think for both concision and cluelessness, Bush wins hands down," says Ted Widmer, a professor of history at Washington College in Chestertown, Md., and a White House speechwriter during the Clinton administration.
"It's very efficient," Widmer says. "It packs maximal inaccuracy into minimal expression."
An added bonus of "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job" is that it will live forever in the lexicon of disingenuous boss-speak. Who will ever hear the words "you're doing a heckuva job" again without half expecting to be frog-marched out of the office a few days later?
On that note, have a heckuva New Year, everyone. And watch what you say.
