"Madam Speaker, in 1993, when professional-baseball owners were deciding how to rehabilitate the reputation of baseball, after the player's strike, they debated whether to enact a wild-card rule to allow a second-place team into the playoffs. Only one owner at the time voted against this: Texas Rangers general partner George Bush.
"When the rule passed 27-1, at the time the President said, 'I made my arguments and went down in flames...History will prove me right.' [Associated Press, 9/9/93]"Since then, nearly a third of World Series champions have been wild-card teams, including the 2004 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox.
"The rule helped saved baseball as history has shown.
"And just like his baseball predictions, President Bush sings a very similar tune about Iraq, he says, 'History will prove whether I'm right. I think I'll be right...' [Whitehouse.gov, March 29, 2006]
Has Bush ever been right about anything?
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