Annotate This: Commander Guy Bush

On May 2, President George W. Bush addressed the Associated General Contractors of America at the Willard Hotel in Washington. An appropriate venue: in the 19th century, favor-seekers waited in the hotel’s lobby for politicians to drop by after work. Thereafter, they were known as lobbyists.

So, Bush had a roomful of anti-tax, union-avoiding, OSHA-hating rough-and-ready entrepreneurs he could serenade with the lullaby of less government. At first, he said things like:

And, therefore, when you cut taxes, we not only – individual rates, we're not only cutting them on the people who work for you or work with you, we're cutting them on you.

On you? Never mind, he meant tax cuts.

Not very far into his presentation, though, he veered from the safe topic of moving money into the entrepreneurial classes and gave the “voice of the construction industry” what it probably didn’t much want to hear – a treatise on the progress being made in Iraq. Just in case the...

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