Ex-Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill blasts Bush (SOUR GRAPES ALERT!!!)

CBS MarketWatch.com ^ | 1/9/04 | Corbett B. Daly

[samtheman]

You'd rather have a RAT president, with no economic recovery and no invasion of Iraq (probably no invasion of Afghanistan, either). Gee, that's good thinking. You are one hellova highprincipled conservative.

[rj45mis]

This guys no conservative. He's wishing algore would run again. His post name sums it up.

[SuziQ]

Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill blasted President Bush in a forthcoming book, charging that the president lacks curiosity and does not engage his aides in discussions about policy. In cabinet meetings, Bush is so disengaged that he is "like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people,"

Hmmm. I seem to remember folks saying the SAME things about Ronald Reagan!

[samtheman]

Hmmm.

[syriacus]

"I went in with a long list of things to talk about and,... I was surprised it turned out me talking and the president just listening," O'Neill said

Maybe the President didn't want to get involved in an argument with O'Neill.

US Treasury secretary on "patient capital"

Afterward, O'Neill mused, ``I've got to learn to control my temper.'' But the next day, O'Neill, who often responds to questions with the brusqueness of a business leader used to telling subordinates what to do, found himself in hot water with Democrats at a Senate Budget Committee hearing.

Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia lectured O'Neill on the finer points of Senate courtesy after O'Neill had interrupted the questioning of freshman Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.