The Washington Post today got around to an analysis of the obvious: President Bush is willing to alienate his base supporters, his enemies, and anyone else as long as big business will benefit.
“Since 1932, we have not had a president who has been more closely allied with business and more sympathetic to large and powerful corporations,” said Columbia University historian Alan Brinkley, a specialist in the American presidency.
“It’s hard to think of anyone [in the 20th century] who has been more connected to the corporate world than maybe Herbert Hoover” in the 20th and 21st centuries, said Robert Dallek, professor emeritus at Boston University and a prominent presidential biographer.
And Mr. Hoover also left us the Great Depression.
