Obnoxious Quote Of The Day: Abandoning The Free Market To Save It

17 Dec, 2008 by John Hawkins

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“I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,” Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision “to make sure the economy doesn’t collapse.” — George Bush

Oh, he’s trying to “save the free-market system,” is he? That’s funny, because to the untrained eye, Bush looks like a rudderless big government Republican who’s flailing about, without any idea of what he’s doing, in an effort to protect his “legacy” instead of the “free market.”