at wednesday's conference on gulf coast recovery nationally televised today on c-span2, house government reform committee chair tom davis (r-va), of the "class" of '94, wasted his first several minutes establishing audience rapport with an anecdote meant to show the superiority of instinct over intellect.
he spoke of his college classmate "moose mcgee," who never understood any lecture material but could always pick out a few key words that were enough to pass exams.
jumping 10 years of moose's anonymity, davis recalled speculation at a class reunion that moose was "probably driving a truck."
you could tell it wasn't part of his rehearsed speech, because davis' own (politically correct?) instincts suddenly kicked in with a lame ["not a bad job, but..."] attempt to recover the teamster vote.
better luck next time, tom. and remember, you can always say "pumping gas."
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