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Hoovering the country. Herbert is everywhere, first at Al Franken's appearance on CNN's Crossfire yesterday:

FRANKEN: Listen, he's going to be the first president since Hoover not to add any new jobs in his first term.

CARLSON: I know. I'm sorry. We're totally, completely out of time. I'm getting it in my ear. They're saying they're going to cut us off.

Notice the timing of Tucker Carlson's not-so-smooth segue to commercial break.

Then in Slate is "The Best of George W. Bush:
Hooverville in New York
The bravest thing he ever did," by William Saletan and Ben Jacobs:

As to keeping Americans constantly informed, Bush held only nine press conferences in the first two and half years of his presidency, the lowest rate since Herbert Hoover.

Similar Hoover lines are popping up in the speeches of Dean and Kerry. None of this is new, it's just nice to see such comparisons trotted out in a coordinated fashion to gain critical mass in the public imagination.

The coordination of the Hoover references, of course, doesn't make them any less true.

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