I’m supposedly back in Delaware today, if everything goes according to plan. However, this page may still be intentionally left blank.
Billionaire David Koch is scared of Barack Obama. I assume his business is the only one who is not soaring in the Obama recovery?
“[A]ll that Obama did was say ‘yea’ or ‘nay,’ we’re going to take him out or not,” Koch said, while attending the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Spring Ball on Wednesday evening. He went on:
He just made the decision, it was obvious where the guy is. He was one of the worst terrorists organizing attacks on the United States. I mean, no president in his right mind would not approve that decision to go eliminate him. So he’s getting a lot of recognition and his polls have jumped up, but his decision was the easiest of them all. The real hard work was done by the intelligence and the SEALs.
Said by a guy who makes money off the work done by his employees. I assume he spreads the wealth back to the people who actually do the work?
Obviously, Senator Pat Roberts was talking about me.
At a Finance Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Pat Roberts (R., Kan.) was questioning a panel of experts on the tax code’s fairness. To kick off his questions, Mr. Roberts jokingly said he was conferring an “honorary doctorate of economics” on each of the four witnesses.
One of the witnesses, Aviva Aron-Dine, actually is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at MIT. Making nice with the senator, she said she appreciated the conferral of a degree, because she wouldn’t mind getting hers a couple of years early.
“I always heard a Ph.D. was a pretty hot Democrat,” Mr. Roberts replied.
“Pretty … sorry?” Ms. Aron-Dine responded.
“Somebody asked me what a pretty hot Republican was, and they said, ‘Nothing,'” Mr. Roberts continued. “So, you know, it’s an equal deal.” Then he went on with his questioning.
Pat Roberts isn’t exactly known for being the Senate’s classiest and most dignified member, but what possessed him to say these things out loud?
The senator’s spokesperson later said, “He means hot as in partisan or ‘fired up.'”
I wonder where that came from. Does anyone know, is Ms. Aron-Dine good-looking? Perhaps this was Roberts’s attempt at flirting.