Bush ignores stories like this...doesn't want anyone to see him not crying.

• Posted at 8:55 PM | By  Elmo

FWIW, although "A rising tide lifts all boats" is a favorite aphorism of the GOP, including the Wall Street set, it was actually first uttered by JFK back in 1962.

Thanks for pointing this story out. I'm going to try to link to it later today.

• Posted at 10:49 AM | By  David Neiwert

Wow, a bloglebrity (yes, you may shoot me, and shoot to kill, for using that word). I <3 Orcinus.

Anyway, thanks for the elucidation. You're right of course. It's one of those quotes, IIRC, Reaganites appropriated to help underscore the miracles of supply-side economics, and was made even more (in?)famous by them. Sort of like some Republican operatives cottoning to Old Joe Stalin's "No man, no problem."

• Posted at 11:34 AM | By  teh l4m3

That's a sweet picture though.

• Posted at 3:39 PM | By  Lindsey

Isn't it, though? And it recalls for me a favorite phrase of my father's I could use to describe the Bush Administration: Like a bull in a china shop.

• Posted at 4:40 PM | By  teh l4m3

I still can't look at them without my eyes swelling with tears...the anger behind those tears will be what drives me...

• Posted at 6:26 PM | By  Elmo