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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,812 posts)
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 07:33 PM Mar 2025

Elaine Chao on the Trump Administration: 'What you all want is certainty and you're not going to get it'

Elaine Chao, who served as Transportation Secretary in the first Trump Administration, advised business leaders to lay low and accept that any planning has to be agile. “This is going to be a volatile period. What you all want is certainty and you’re not going to get it.” As for DOGE, she said, “Everyone agrees that there is waste and inefficiencies in the government. Usually, special government employees have to file financial disclosure reports. I think a scalpel rather than a machete would produce a more effective government for the American people."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elaine-chao-trump-administration-want-102324589.html

And it was a Democrat, Bill Clinton, who used scalpel and gave us not just a balanced but a surplus.

Unfortunately, he was followed by the dry drunk G DUHbya who went on a spending spree called the Iraq invasion after passing massive tax cuts for the wealthy.

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Elaine Chao on the Trump Administration: 'What you all want is certainty and you're not going to get it' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2025 OP
Gee Dubya was not a dry drunk. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #1
I think the pretzel choking story was a lie. madaboutharry Mar 2025 #2
He has the serene countenance mr715 Mar 2025 #3
Yes that was most likely a drunken event of some sort. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #8
When he was living in Austin before any political office, he was noted around town for being a drunk with ... marble falls Mar 2025 #4
Yes classic nepo baby. Cocaine, drugs, booze, not very bright. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #9
Uncertainty Kid Berwyn Mar 2025 #5
Stating the obvious here, except now it's more obvious his intent is to destroy everything Meowmee Mar 2025 #6
Note to Dearie, all I know is that you and hubby cashed in UTUSN Mar 2025 #7

Irish_Dem

(79,769 posts)
1. Gee Dubya was not a dry drunk.
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 07:36 PM
Mar 2025

Every time he was in public he was drunk.
Sometimes falling down drunk.
Never sober.

Usually passed out in bed by 9 pm every night.

madaboutharry

(42,027 posts)
2. I think the pretzel choking story was a lie.
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 07:45 PM
Mar 2025

After that, I never believed he stopped drinking.

He doesn’t look particularly healthy these days.

Irish_Dem

(79,769 posts)
8. Yes that was most likely a drunken event of some sort.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 05:17 AM
Mar 2025

There were pictures of him at a sporting event one time, literally falling down drunk.
SS had to pick him up.

I am sure the SS was always doing this kind of thing for him.

Yes Bush looks bad these days.

My theory is that Cheney kept sending Bush a carton of Jack Daniels every week.
Kept Bush out of his hair so he could run the show.

marble falls

(71,048 posts)
4. When he was living in Austin before any political office, he was noted around town for being a drunk with ...
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 10:14 PM
Mar 2025

... with serious marching powder habit. There was a bar in a basement near the capitol where he hung out that was a meeting place for single women working at the statehouse that he would spice his social life at. Once he met Laura he straightened up, he had trouble trying to pull together oil deals, but caught on after he became front office for the Rangers. It's generally agreed he was a successful baseball general manager.

To bad he he went beyond his ability. He was a shit military pilot, a shit oil wheeler dealer, a degenerate drunk, a poacher of women much younger than himself, a bully, an indifferent student, an exploiter of doors opened by being GHWB's son, he was a week President that delegated .

Laura straightened his behaviors but she did not make him smarter.

My thought is that if Michele Obama can find something compelling about him then maybe I should be willing to see something in him, too.

https://www.today.com/news/michelle-obama-explains-friendship-george-w-bush-t169551

Michelle Obama explains friendship with George W. Bush: 'Our values are the same'

"We disagree on policy, but we don't disagree on humanity," the former first lady told Jenna Bush Hager during their trip to Vietnam.


https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/politics/bush-michelle-obama-friendship/index.html

Bush says he was ‘shocked’ by people’s reactions to his friendship with Michelle Obama
By Ariella Phillips, CNN
1 minute read
Updated 11:52 PM EDT, Mon April 19, 2021


Irish_Dem

(79,769 posts)
9. Yes classic nepo baby. Cocaine, drugs, booze, not very bright.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 05:25 AM
Mar 2025

But entitled, privileged and used to getting what he wants when he wants it.

Cheney had his number and got him installed into office so he could run the show.

Yes I have no idea what the Michelle O friendship is about.
We know Bush has no humanity whatsoever.

Maybe by the time she met him all his brain cells were fried and he was a basic blithering idiot.
Harmless.

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