the bushies

[linda d]

I don't know if the following article on the charmed life of neil bush has been linked here, so here ya go. (Unfortunately, no mention of herpes. Of course, the WaPo printed this between Christmas and New Years, guaranteeing the story a short shelf life.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35297-2003Dec27.html

Additionally, in the new issue of Rolling Stone (with Dave Matthews on the cover), there's a piece, "The House of Bush" that has awesome quotes from Kevin Phillips. He's written a new book, "American Dynasty", that takes a crack at the bushes.

choice quote:

Elites, not elections, put Bush in power. "I'm not talking about ordinary lack of business ethics or financial corruption," says Phillips ... Four generations of building toward dynasty have infused the Bush family's hunger for power and practices of crony capitalism with a moral arrogance and backstage disregard of the democratic and republican traditions of the U.S. government." As a result, he says, "deceit and disinformation have become Bush political hallmarks."

[Catherine Vincent]

1. What's the deal on this herpes and Neil? This is the second time

both were mentioned in the same sentence. Does he have herpes? Did he get it from one of the asian women from his hotel room?

[linda d]

2. neil's herpes

from neil's divorce deposition, the following exchange (via Lloyd Grove's column in the NY Daily News):

Brown: "And you were married to Mrs. Bush?"

Bush: "Yes."

Brown: "Is that where you caught the venereal diseases?"

Bush: "No."

Brown: "Where did you catch those?"

Bush: "Diseases plural? I didn't catch..."

Brown: "Well, I'm sorry. How ... how many venereal diseases do you suffer from?"

Bush: "I've had one venereal disease."

Brown: "Which was?"

Bush: "Herpes."

Brown then interrogates Bush's about his various sex partners: "Did you pay them for that sex?"

Bush: "No, I did not."

Brown: "Pick them up in a sushi house?"

Bush: "No. ... My recollection is, where I can recall, they came to my room."

Brown: "Do you know the name of that hotel? I may go to Thailand sometime."