Perhaps, senility has set in.

But, yesterday, the former first lady and the current President’s mother, Barbara Bush, said of the poor whose already difficult life has been devastated, "This is working very well for them." This was heard yesterday by the audience for NPR’s Marketplace.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, she went on to say, "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."

What’s that bromide? The acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree?