AT A RECENT CABINET MEETING

By Guest Blogger Charles Carroll (Someone’s Smarter Brother)

Bush: Well then who's the Chinese President?
Rice: Yes.
Bush: I mean the fellow's name.
Rice: Hu.
Bush: The Chinese President.
Rice: Hu.
Bush: The President of China.
Rice: Hu.
Bush: The guy leading...
Rice: Hu is China’s President!
Bush: I'm asking YOU who's their President.
Rice: That's the man's name.
Bush: That's who's name?
Rice: Yes.
Bush: Well go ahead and tell me.
Rice: That's it.
Bush: That's who?
Rice: Yes.
(PAUSE)
Bush: Look, they gotta president?
Rice: Certainly.
Bush: Who's president?
Rice: That's right.
Bush: When they pay off their president every month, who gets the money?
Rice: Every dollar of it.
Bush: All I'm trying to find out is the fellow's name.
Rice: Hu.
Bush: The guy that gets...
Rice: That's it.
Bush: Who gets the money...
Rice: He does, every dollar. Sometimes his wife comes down and collects it.
Bush: Whose wife?
Rice: Yes.
(PAUSE)
Rice: What's wrong with that?
Bush: Look, all I wanna know is when the Chinese President signs an order, how does he sign his name?
Rice: Hu.
Bush: The guy.
Rice: Hu.
Bush: How does he sign...
Rice: That's how he signs it.
Bush: Who?
Rice: Yes.
(PAUSE}
Bush: All I'm trying to find out is what's the guy's name.
Rice: No. Watt invented the steam engine.
Bush: I'm not asking you who invented the steam engine.
Rice: Hu’s the president of China.
Bush: One person at a time!
Rice: Well, don't change the names around.
Bush: I'm not changing nobody!
Rice: Take it easy, buddy.
Bush: I'm only asking you, who's the Chinese President?
Rice: That's right.
Bush: Ok.
Rice: All right.
(PAUSE)
Bush: What's the Chinese president’s name?
Rice: No. Watt invented the steam engine
Bush: I'm not asking you who invented the steam engine
Rice: Hu's the Chinese President.
Bush: I don't know.
Rice: Eyedunno’s the Prime Minister of Toga, we're not talking about him.
Bush: Now how did I get to Toga?
Rice: Why you mentioned his name.
Bush: If I mentioned the Toga Prime Minister’s name, who did I say is Prime Minister?
Rice: No. Hu's the Chinese President.
Bush: What's President of China?
Rice: Watt invented the Steam Engine.
Bush: I don't know.
Rice: He's Prime Minister of Toga.
Bush: There I go, back to Toga again!
(PAUSE)
Bush: Would you just stay on Toga and don't go off it.
Rice: All right, what do you want to know?
Bush: Now who's Prime Minister of Toga?
Rice: Why do you insist on putting Hu in Toga?
Bush: What am I putting in Toga.
Rice: No. Watt invented the Steam Engine.
Bush: I don't want to know who invented the steam engine.
Rice: Hu is the Chinese President.
Bush: I don't know.
Rice & Bush: TOGA!