Don Evans, Spinning Fast

Happened to catch the prez's buddy Don Evans, often considered somewhat responsible for mishandling our economy during his few years in the Bush cabinet, the man who argued you could put a price on any body from 9/1, on "Hardball" tonight arguing about how just gosh-awful wonderful the economy is under Bush, even if not everybody's smart enough to realize it yet.

Well, considering the $500 suit Evans was wearing - with requisite flag pin - tonight, I have no doubt that the Bush economy has been kind to him. He would be one of the fat cats who got the big tax breaks. But I seem to know an awful lot of people working more than one job for less than one job used to pay them. Foreclosures and bankrupties are at an all-time high. I work extremely long work weeks, for example, and I'm struggling to meet basic expenses just because a) companies are very slow to pay and b) they cancel projects on a whim citing the difficult economy.