Perhaps an even bigger Freudian slip re Ports of Orwellian proportions...

[ourbluenation]

Found the quote...thanks to Marty Kaplan on the Huff PO.

Here's how W is defending the Dubai decision: "The more people learn about the transaction that has been scrutinized and approved by MY GOVERNMENT, the more they'll be comforted..."

For a moment, set aside the "trust-me" part of this, and focus instead on the "my government" bit.

If he'd said "my administration," I wouldn't have blinked.
"My cabinet" would also have raised no hackles. If he really wanted to use the word "government," then how about these pronouns as antecedents for "people": "their government" or "our government."

But no, he said "my government." I don't think that's just a garden variety Bushism, a trivial malapropism. I think it goes right to his understanding of who he is, and who we are. It's not a Freudian slip; it's an Orwellian siren, an anti-democratic red alert.

Props...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/w-my-government_b_16224.html

[fiveleafclover]

1. But it really IS his government

We're just paying the salaries.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. I thought he said "the" government

which I thought was bad enough, since it excluded Congress, governors and just about everybody else, but if he really said "my" government, it's even worse.

[ourbluenation]

4. Nope - "MY" government...heard it with my own two, sweet ears

god help us

[Blue_In_AK]

8. Was this just today or yesterday?

I was thinking of the little speech he gave after he got off the airplane the other day. "My governent," indeed. What an ass.

[Blue_In_AK]

11. I just watched LiveOakTx's video of this press conference...

...this is indeed a different instance than what I was referring to the other day when he said "the" government. He really seems to be "owning" this debacle, huh? What's his motivation for being so obtuse?

[benddem]

9. he said "MY"

among the 456 billion things about this jerk that bother me it is his ownership of the govt., country,etc. It aint his and I'm sick of it.

[xchrom]

3. he thinks he's king.

no doubt about it.

he's fuckin nuts too.

[Jacobin]

12. "L'etat, c'est moi"

King Louis the whatever number he was.

[fooj]

5. It's OUR government.

I heard that today. I couldn't believe my ears. He's a treasonous, rat bastard is there ever was one.

Peace.

[Fridays Child]

6. I imagine that Mark Crispin Miller agrees with you...

...and so do I.

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
~ George W. Bush, December 18, 2000

Unitary executive...dictator. Is there a difference?

[CottonBear]

7. Remember, during Katrina, when he called NOLA "this part of the world"

as if NOLA and the Gulf Coast belonged to another country or continent?
:(

[Chi-Town Exile]

13. For Dubya, any place that dark-skinned people

inhabit amounts to another world!

President Asshat thinks the whole world is his. He is the landlord and the rest of the world are just tenants. I never dreamed I could hate someone as much as I hate this SOB.

[woodsprite]

10. Or OilWellian. n/t