News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
SHANKSVILLE, PA—In a stirring speech at the Flight 93 Memorial yesterday, some guy who started two wars called for more civility.
“Yes, I may have started two foreign wars on false pretenses that wasted trillions of dollars and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people,” said the guy whose name we can’t remember at the moment. “However, it’s important to understand the real threats to our great nation are the people who took selfies in the Capitol building a few months ago. Those Trump supporters are children of the same foul spirit as Al Qaeda and they must be brought to justice.”
The Trump supporters, who had sent sons and daughters to fight and die in this guy’s war for 20 years in exchange for being insulted, mistreated, pushed from their manufacturing jobs, and called racist, responded to the speech in a very frightening and uncivil way by saying “Boooooooo.”
Thanks to the sweeping and intrusive Patriot Act surveillance measures enacted by the Texas-sounding guy on stage, the evil uncivil hecklers were discovered and quickly detained by the FBI and thrown in prison awaiting trial in 2-10 years.
Go here to read the rest. In a way I am grateful to Bush for destroying the influence of his malignant clan on the GOP. He can now return to painting portraits of the veterans maimed in his wars in the sandbox.
I’m going to say it. Bush was always a scumbag masquerading as a patriot. I vividly recall the contempt my father showed every time he appeared on our tv screens when I was as a young kid. I never understood it at the time since the media always equated him as the equivalent of the second coming. He has been responsible for more deaths under his leadership than any terrorist act on US soil. An entitled grub from day dot. Never trusted him. Good to see he voluntarily showed his true colours.
Bit of a freudian typo there, eh Don? 😉
De Incogitabilis Nil Nisi Bonum.
Corrected, but I agree that Freud would have said, Ah ha!
What someone once said of Ivan Boesky’s before-the-fall philanthropy applies to Bush the Lesser, “There are givers and there are users. He’s a user”. We’ve been learning that in stages the last 8 years.
You can check for clarifications here:
https://twitter.com/TheBushCenter
Bush was always a scumbag masquerading as a patriot.
His domestic life’s got no scandals. Like a lot of people, he and his wife couldn’t break through rancid peer cultures and bring his children around to his point of view (a task made more difficult when your point of view is fuzzy).
Critics of his business career maintain his successful ventures depended on leveraging connections and some satisfactory salesmanship and that people buying influence overpaid for the assets he had for sale. (Plausible, but the critics were people like Molly Ivins, who didn’t know squat and Steve Sailer, who does know squat but whose evidence has been on the order of ‘this friend of mine who once worked for Bush’s business partner says the only work Bush did was’… blah blah).
One dreadful problem we have now is the DIE industry. Cannot help but notice that the Reagan Administration was rhetorically (and, to the extent it could be) operationally opposed to AA. The Bushes father and son were as consequential as anyone as anyone in inducing the Republican Party to return to Nixon-era nonsense on this issue. The antagonism to any sort of effort to seal the border was a signature of both Bush the Younger and John McCain. (I seem to recall Jeb! has some technocratic feints in the direction of border control his brother does not). You’ll notice the most obtrusive policy initiatives of the 2d Bush administration were amnesty for illegal immigrants and partially replacing conventional Social Security with private accounts. The only modally Republican constituency which would have more than idle interest in either would be Hispanic evangelicals who have relatives in the country illegally and business executives who employ those relatives of think Social Security is a bad deal for them.
Sometimes I disgust myself. Remembering I voted for Bush nauseates me.
Follow the money everybody was taking.
In addition to everything else [two wars, Medicare Part D, “No Child Left Behind’], at any minute in nearly eight years, big government/central planner/profiteer Bush could have done SOMETHING to mitigate the Fed/FHLMC/FNMA/HUD/Wall Street from generating the Great Recession by inflating the housing bubble with low rates, massive amounts of Alt-A/NINJA/No Doc/No Income/subprime/CRA-on-steroids home loans.
“His domestic life’s got no scandals.” Isn’t that what he wanted/wants the public to believe? DUI, Cocaine use, 2 extra-marital affairs (cue the “these allegations couldn’t be proven”). One of those affairs ended up “killing” herself. Barbara Bush is probably the only person whose domestic life had no scandals.
By the way, the Texan has stayed silent over the marvellous Heartbeat Law..,Worried he will fall out of favour with the presidents club perhaps..?
“His domestic life’s got no scandals.” Isn’t that what he wanted/wants the public to believe? DUI, Cocaine use, 2 extra-marital affairs (cue the “these allegations couldn’t be proven”). One of those affairs ended up “killing” herself.
No, a ticket for drunk driving 45 years ago (he was pulled over for driving too slowly) is not a scandal of note. No one has ever demonstrated he used cocaine. As for the ‘affairs’, you appear to have been consulting the Wacky World of Websites, which will also insist to you that his grandfather financed the 3d Reich.
Actually he was pulled over for being blind as a bat after slugging beers with an Aussie tennis player John Newcombe who was told to shut his mouth for years about it but later joked about it. I think I believe Newcombe over whitewashed news. But so what, every President has at least one little DUI in their past. During his campaign he went from saying he didn’t use drugs in the past 25 years then following up the next day with he didn’t use drugs in the past 7 years. Which one was it? How about, “I didn’t use drugs. Ever”. I think most people Would would have had respect for the man if he admitted “I used it in my past and regret it.” Rather than projecting a squeaky clean wholesome celebrity persona. The wacky web reference to the rape lawsuit Margie Schoedinger filed against Bush was ignored by the media except to mention she “died of a gunshot wound”, as was the stripper who came forward but she was palmed off as a lying looney. His grandfather probably didn’t finance the third reich but the family gave legs to something far worse – abortion.
She claims that Bush brutally raped and kidnapped her and her husband and drugged them both, in December of 2002 in Sugarland, Texas and that he threatened to kill her
I am surprised that she didn’t claim that Bush also raped her dog. Bush was a busy man since this was during the lead up to the war in Iraq. Even the Russian news agency which reported on her lawsuit referred to her as a nutcase.
Actually he was pulled over for being blind as a bat after slugging beers with an Aussie tennis player John Newcombe who was told to shut his mouth for years about it but later joked about it.
No clue why you fancy John Newcombe would have been knocking about in a little town in Maine or how it was that he was not mentioned in any of the contemporary news stories which appeared when associates of the Gore campaign dumped this little prize in the media in 2000. Bush’s BAC was estimated at 0.10, which is just over the limit in Maine, not ‘blind as a bat’.
During his campaign he went from saying he didn’t use drugs in the past 25 years then following up the next day with he didn’t use drugs in the past 7 years. Which one was it?
He said 1974.
She claims that Bush brutally raped and kidnapped her and her husband and drugged them both, in December of 2002 in Sugarland, Texas and that he threatened to kill her
Sugarland is a suburb of Houston. I think the last time GW Bush lived around Houston was ca. 1973.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/world/newked-john-newcombe-breaks-silence-on-the-bender-that-got-george-w-bush-arrested-20141010-114225.html
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/world/newked-john-newcombe-breaks-silence-on-the-bender-that-got-george-w-bush-arrested-20141010-114225.html
Again, there was no bender. And why should anyone believe this isn’t just another fantasy of Australian reporters? You’ve retailed several here.
Again, the “quotation” they retail from George W Bush did not appear in contemporaneous news sources and Bush blood alcohol content was nowhere near what you’d expect from binge drinking.
And have you my friend. If Bush needs a PR agent, I’m sure you’ll be on top of his list.
And have you my friend. If Bush needs a PR agent, I’m sure you’ll be on top of his list.
I’ve been slicing up the bum in post after post. His bad behavior as a politician notwithstanding, you’ve made a number of discrete contentions you could never substantiate except by sending us to crank sites: that he was blind drunk in January of 1976, that John Newcombe was a drinking buddy, that he implied he’d used street drugs in 1992 (when he was a 46 year old father of tweens with a business to run), that he had multiple extramarital affairs, that one of his paramours committed suicide, and that he raped a woman in Houston 2002. The problem is not Bush’s. The problem is between your ears.
Pacem, people!
We are on the same side.
Bush the bum isn’t on our side.
It heads my list of logical fallacies. Ad hominem doesn’t add to the truth.
To those of you shedding crocodile tears over voting for Bush, let me ask you something. What were the alternatives? John McCain? Does anyone think McCain wouldn’t be doing the exact same thing, perhaps worse, if he were alive? Hell, he was doing it when he was alive. Al Gore? John Kerry?
The Republican primary candidates in 2000 were a sad lot. Partially this was due to Bush absolutely dominating the polls for the nomination from 1998 on up.
Now, one is left now with the choice whether Bush was merely pretending to be a conservative or he ceased to be somewhere along the line. He often struck me in his second term as a withdrawn, beaten man. But for this support of the surge in 2007, he was King Log.
Partially this was due to Bush absolutely dominating the polls for the nomination from 1998 on up.
Alan Keyes was interesting, but he hadn’t much time in executive positions and seems to get more erratic as he ages. Elizabeth Dole did not present these problems, but she was an uber-establishmentarian; ditto Lamar Alexander. That left you with Steve Forbes, who hadn’t performed badly in 1996 but couldn’t gin up any interest four years later.
AFAICT, the Republican Party was for a generation bedeviled by a bloc of voters – about 1/3 of the total I’d guess – whose candidate was The Guy Whose Turn it Is. Unless, of course, the guy whose turn it is showed signs of believing in measures in the face of most of the electorate polled believing in something else. Pat Buchanan and Rick Santorum were never going to get the votes of those favoring The Guy Whose Turn it Is (whose preferences are aligned with those of big donors). In 1988, the nomination goes to George Bush the Elder (runner up in 1980); in 1996, it goes to Robert Dole (runner up in 1988); in 2000, the runner up of in 1996 was too outré, so the nomination goes to the son of the nominee in 1988 and 1992; in 2008, you get the runner up in 2000; in 2012, you have two runners up from 2008 to chose from and the more astringent of them isn’t running, so it goes to the other; in 2016, the runner up from 2012 is too outré, so the blockheads are ready to opt opt for the brother of the nominee in 2000 and 2004 but are swamped when a critical mass of voters comes out of the woodwork and line up behind Trump and Cruz.
“Alan Keyes was interesting”
I witnessed his 2004 campaign in Illinois against Obama for the Senate seat. It was appallingly bad, and I had been in favor of the move by the party to run him as a candidate. The man is mental.
The man is mental.
I don’t think that was the case 35 years ago. Not all of us age well.
It would appear that Mr. Bush now exhibits the same ailments that afflict the current occupant of the White House.