Grocery Clerk

Posted on October 8, 2008 in Campaign 2008 Class

I have to wonder about middle-aged grocery clerks who pronounce financial apocalypse on the basis that Democrats are just going to go back to their old habits of the LBJ days. “Democrats are all tax and spend,” said the fellow checking my items at Trader Joe’s. “That just doesn’t work.”

“Unlike the Republicans who are don’t tax but spend anyways,” I replied.

“That was Bush.”

“And the Republican Congress,” I reminded him with a smile as I walked out the door into the October heat. Nice to see how the Republicans are cutting the lines to Bush, trying to forget that they lauded him and voted for his every program.

Don’t you forget.