Kevin Phillips rips Bushes on NPR

[rlev1223]

Just listened to Phillips (former Repub advisor, pollster,
virtual inventor of Nixon "Southern strategy").

His new book tears Bush family practices and associates to pieces,
deep history of family connections in Middle East, Germany,
CIA etc etc. He really hates them, says everyone should be scared of them.

Good summary article also by him in Sunday LA Times.

Part of new trend by old-fashioned Repubs to
scorn Bush as aberrational and dangerous....they must sense weakness.

[Catfish]

1. I think they are dangerous

but deep down I don't understand why they are so powerful. Aren't there enough other powerful old line Republicans who can take them on? Even given their interests in the Middle East, etc. I still wonder why they are so feared.

[seemslikeadream]

2. Watch Kevin Phillips on C-SPAN

http://www.booktv.org/feature/index.asp?segid=4257&schedID=237

[hobbes159]

3. It's interesting that Phillips started off as a * supporter

He changed his mind after doing the research -- too bad the rest of the country can't do the same!

[Skidmore]

4. Did you hear him on C-SPAN Sunday? This guy

is definitely no RINO, though. He's an R through & through and basically pooh poohed much of the tinfoil theorists of the left regarding the ascendancy of the Bush dynasty. I do agree he intensely dislikes the Bushes and what they stand for.

[peekaloo]

6. Amy Goodman had him on for the better part of an hour today

You're right he dons no tinfoil, he refuted the Bay of Pigs/George Bush debriefing story of 11/29/63 as not being GHWB BUT he sure as hell made the Bush/military-industrial complex connection that Ike warned about. Lots of background info on the great grandfathers of Dim Son and their penchant for secrecy, including Skull and Bones.

A book worth reading.

[seemslikeadream]

7. Here is a few things he did say

It's now installed in Washington, by way of Connecticut and Texas. The power of the Bush dynasty, writes Phillips, extends for four generations, and its scions have been intimately involved in three of the 20th century's chief growth industries: intelligence, energy and national security. "If there are other families who have more fully epitomized and risen alongside the hundred-year emergence of the military industrial complex, the post-1945 national security state, and the 21st century imperium," he writes," no one has identified them." Fudging the truth, whether over the release of Iranian hostages or the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, is an essential skill in such an enterprise, Phillips argues, and the Bushes (and their Walker kin)are masters of deception. Clandestine skills, money-laundering, and perhaps even election-fixing also figure heavily on the family resume, as do other talents essential to covert action but useless in nation building and humane governance.

Phillips characterizes the Bush coalition as "a narrowly Armageddon-believing electorate" - of no small importance to an administration bent on continued warfare in the Middle East (save Saudi Arabia, where its interests lie) in the name of good versus evil.

www.americandynasty.net

[CatWoman]

5. which NPR Program?

I'm listening to an interview he gave on Minnesota Public Radio:

http://news.mpr.org/play/audio.php?media=/midday/2004/01/09_midday2