Well, it gets better, because the person that he has charged with running this august institution is one James K. Glassman, a fact that I did not pay much attention to when I made the initial snark.
Clayton Littlejohn, Wonkette, and Matthew Yglesias caught the obvious irony: Mr. Glassman is the author of Dow 36,000, in which he and Kevin A. Hassett wrote in 1999, which predicted that the index would top thirty-six thousand in the next few years.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed today, about a decade later, at 9,441.27.
Mr. Glassman appears uniquely qualified to represent the ideas of George W. Bush.