Re: As I Was Saying

Mike, the sad thing about that is not that the Speaker seems to think subtle jabs will do it. It is how dismissive he is about "campaign speech" -- as if labeling something as "campaign" rhetoric is license for a politician to make any claim that his audience wants to hear since no one should really take it seriously.

I don't think a guy who campaigns on a "Pledge to America" but gets his back up over the suggestion that he and his party should actually honor the promises in the pledge is in a very good position to snicker at someone else's "campaign speech."