No one would believe this if it were fiction

[jaunthie]

This morning's comic-tragedy reminder, from Talking Points Memo:

"The budget cutters axed 32 jobs at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The employees were laid off two weeks ago.

But apparently no one told them that the political office at the White House had decided to make this energy independence squeeze-the-switchgrass-until-it-bleeds-gas week at the White House. And President Bush is heading over to the lab today.

The jobs got reinstated; the president says it was all a mix-up."

It's hysterical, and it's unbelievable, and it's also outrageous that this kind of thing has become ha-ha routine to the point where it's hardly even noticed. I wonder if any of the recently-axed-and-more-recently-reinstated will pipe up at a press conference and ask Twinkie directly about the "mix-up"? Or if any of the so-called reporters following the President will ping him about this?

I'm not holding my breath.

Comments

[tangerinpenguin.livejournal.com]

Hold that outraged thought. If many of Bush's photo ops in New Orleans are any indication, the real kicker is how long it will take the layoffs themselves to be reinstated after he leaves...

[jaunthie.livejournal.com]

My guess? Two weeks, tops. :-p