Dubya’s pig ignorance was what failed him, not his dubious pronouncements

Charlie McCreevy was a great man for quoting himself.

It used to send his Cabinet colleagues right around the bend. Partly because they were never sure he actually had delivered the pearl which had subsequently been proven to be beyond price.

They suspected he mightn’t have, but they didn’t have the energy, whatever about the venom, to go back through the media files to prove him wrong. They just gritted their teeth. The habit became known as “doing a McCreevy”.