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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Bye, American

(Fox News) - Most of the men and women President Obama has picked to help fix the American automobile industry do not even drive American cars. The Detroit News reports that only two of the 18 people named so far as members and aides to the task force own U.S.-made vehicles.

The co-chairmen Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers both own foreign automobiles. So does Management and Budget Office Director Peter Orszag. And at least two task force members don't own a car.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is silly. Fox News is wasting space on this kind of school-yard pushing and shoving when they should be asking why the government has any business trying to "fix" the American automobile industry. It seems the American transition from capitalism to corporate fascism is now complete, and our "free" press is complicit up to its neck.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:11:00 PM  

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