Lincoln Chafee on Bush's economic diagnosis

And he suggests that Bush's tax policy certainly didn't help:

The president reversed his predecessors' good, conservative fiscal policies -- responsible stewardship of revenues and expenditures. So who's drunk?

But my favorite little line:

"True to form, the president prefers simplistic jargon over communicating the complexity of any subject."

Why is that? Does he really not understand the complexity of any subject? Seriously. He describes terrorist motivations as "they hate us for our freedom," and our approach to the world as "you are with us or against us."

Does he communicate so simplistically because he thinks that is the best way to communicate to people? Or does he want to appear "dumb" to appeal to American stupidity?