No, I?m not directing the above question to Alfie. Instead, I?m responding with a chuckle to a passage in a column by Bruce Bartlett, an excellent economics columnist and former JLF Headliner speaker. The author of Impostor, which bashes President Bush up one side and down the other for conservative apostasy, Bartlett has some kind words for the president and his advisors now. What made me laugh was this construction:
The first big improvement was installation of Joshua Bolten as White House chief of staff. Although he has been known to snub me at social events for my criticisms of the president, nevertheless I believe that he is far better than his predecessor, Andy Card.
Nevertheless.
