Please Clap: The Bush Dynasty Has Been Broken

[KamaAina]

How about a hot, steaming cup of Pitt to go with your Sunday brunch?

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35193-please-clap-the-bush-dynasty-has-been-broken

Jeb Bush dropped out of the 2016 presidential race not long ago, and you could hear the earth itself heave a sigh of relief. When he announced he was suspending his campaign, head down with a pathetic shrug between his ears, a political dynasty that has looted and ravaged this nation and the world for going on 80 years was snuffed like a guttering candle in a forgotten church. In that darkness is the light, because the planet doesn't have to worry about the Bush family any more. They'll lurk, sure, like a purse snatcher skulking in the shadows next to an ATM, but the next time you see a Bush on television will be when they are getting lowered into their grave.

Prescott Bush, the wellspring of the Bush dynasty, sounds like a good man on paper. He served in World War I, was on the ground floor of the formation of Planned Parenthood and was a chairman for the United Negro College Fund. Scratch the brass, however, and you find old blood. According to a variety of reports and investigations, a number of the companies Prescott Bush was involved with, companies where he made his fortune, financed and supported the Nazi regime in Germany. That dirty money served his sons and grandsons well....

George W. Bush met Dick Cheney and got his hands on daddy's fundraising list. Thanks to a feckless "news" media and a dumpster fire of a Supreme Court, he squirmed his way into the Oval Office and was able to introduce us all to nifty things like Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, John Ashcroft, Condoleeza Rice, ruinous tax cuts for the rich that obliterated the Clinton surplus, September 11 (when he was keeping us safe), the Patriot Act and the permanent establishment of the security/surveillance state, a war in Afghanistan, a war in Iraq (again), the ravaging through pure neglect of the great city of New Orleans when Katrina hit, the looting of the Treasury, and a financial collapse built on the bones of the balderdash he, his father and his grandfather peddled for three generations. Now he paints selfies of himself in the shower. Oh, he paints puppies, too. One of the greatest mass murderers in modern history sits unconvicted in Texas doing paint-by-the-numbers, and we are all lessened by the simple fact of him.

And then there's Jeb!. Good lord, what can you say? His policies as governor of Florida were boilerplate Republican stupidity. He ran for president with the mien of a kid who was told to mow the lawn on a Saturday. He didn't want to be there, didn't want any part of it, and you could see it clearly from the far side of Neptune. The fact that low men like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz got the better of him during his campaign, not once but with a grinding consistency, tells you all you need to know. I almost pity the man. The last gasp of the Bush dynasty put his head down and shriveled in his rumpled shirt when announcing his departure from the race, and the silence after was deeper than the void between the spheres. I dig your new hairdo, bro. Go to bed.

Okay. But I'm appalled that WRP doesn't knoiw how to spell "Condoleezza".

[djean111]

1. Still would not be surprised in the least to see the GOP try for a Romney/Bush ticket.

Lot of big egos and big money floating around.

[Frustratedlady]

2. Don't forget the grandkids they are grooming. eom

[WillowTree]

12. George P. is already holding elected office in Texas.

[Wilms]

3. One down, two to go.

The Klintons and the Cardashians.

Here's a pic from "Elite Daily".

[lunatica]

4. We'll certainly hear from his son in a few years.

http://georgepfortexas.org/about/

George Prescott Bush

He was elected in 2015 to be Texas Land Commissioner. So he's already a politician.

[Hydra]

5. The DLC is the other arm of Bushco

When they are gone, I will breathe my sigh of relief. Until then, anything can still happen.

[Raster]

6. I know why the old man cried...

His oldest son, a ne'er do well entrusted with the Bush* mantle and throughly screws the pooch, and his favorite son, Jebbie, the good son, the smart son will NEVER BE PRESIDENT.

[Solly Mack]

7. We'll see. George P. is still out there.

Maybe - maybe - once Poppy is dead all the old ties will be severed because all the old markers'll die with him.

Still, give Americans a few years and they start to wax nostalgic, and up pops George P. Bush.



George P. has run for office, and won. JEB's spectacularly abysmal performance has set George P. back, but he's not out yet.

I ain't counting them out until they're really, really out. To bury a dynasty, you have to literally bury the dynasty. Way too many of them alive and well for that.

Don't count out Shrub's look-alike son-in-law either. He has aspiration written all over him.

Henry Hager



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And this is Neil's son, Pierce

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Yeah, he's a joke - but then so was Shrub.

Yes, they all have baggage but if you can be an admitted war criminal (like Shrub) and still not get prosecuted, baggage isn't exactly a drawback.

Americans will moan and groan about hypocrites, but they still elect them - repeatedly.


I found the taste of JEB's bumbling misstep of a campaign to be delicious, and a joy to behold - but I'm not counting the brand out yet. Not yet.

[tavernier]

8. Masterpiece, Will.

Your very best, I do believe.

[NV Whino]

9. I've always spelled it Kindasleezy. You mean that's not correct?

And don't forget George P, the dog commissioner (or something) in Texas.

[Octafish]

10. It's spelled CONDESCENDA.

Got an oil tanker named after her.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

11. GOP’s secret idiot? If George Pee. Bush is its future, the party’s in trouble

Not many Texas voters really understand what the land commissioner does, making it the perfect office for someone with a lot of money and/or name recognition but no prior experience. Unfortunately, it is actually a pretty powerful state office, responsible for millions of acres of land, including mineral rights leasing, making it perhaps not the best office for a political neophyte with no prior government experience.

Old salon article abuot George pee running for office, still relevant though!
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/24/gops_laughable_new_savior_if_george_p_bush_is_its_future_the_partys_in_trouble/

[Scurrilous]

13. Seen on the internets:

"Jeb Bush was born on third base but somehow still managed to strike out to end the game."

The game he ended was the "Bushes."

[KamaAina]

14. Thread win!