Hold onto your wallets, friends. This economy’s headed straight down the dumper.

Bush: US Is Not Headed Into Recession

This should fit in well with Bush’s other confident statements-o’-fact:

* “[Rafael Palmeiro]’s the kind of person that’s going to stand up in front of the klieg lights and say he didn’t use steroids, and I believe him. Still do.”

* “Both [Rumsfeld and Cheney] are doing fantastic jobs.”

* “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.”

* “We do not torture.”

* “I don’t know whether we’re going to get [bin Laden] tomorrow or a month from now or a year from now. I don’t really know. But we’re going to get him.“

* On the Democrats retaking Congress in ‘06: “That’s not going to happen.”

And of course…