"The House of Bush" - Rolling Stone article about the BFEE

[Kat45]

"Listening to Kevin Phillips talk about politics, it's easy to mistake him for a populist firebrand from the 1890s. He rails against the growing inequality of wealth in America. He bemoans the unprecedented influence that private corporations hold over public institutions. He attacks the "smug conservatism" of George W. Bush and accuses the president of attempting to establish a family dynasty better suited to royalist England than to democratic America.

But Phillips is no left-wing demagogue. He's not only a lifelong Republican, he's also the guy who literally wrote the book that became the blueprint for the party's dominance of presidential politics. Phillips served as the chief political strategist for Richard Nixon in 1968, and, in The Emerging Republican Majority, he formulated the "Southern Strategy" that helped hand the White House to the GOP for a generation.

In his new book American Dynasty, Phillips lays out his almost visceral distaste for what he calls "the politics of deceit in the House of Bush," accusing the administration of dishonesty and secrecy that would make Tricky Dick blush. He traces the course of Bush's family over the past 100 years, detailing how they sought influence "in the back corridors" of the oil and defense industries, investment banking and the intelligence establishment. Elites, not elections, put Bush in power. "I'm not talking about ordinary lack of business ethics or financial corruption," says Phillips, who recently registered as an Independent for the first time. "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.""

http://www.rollingstone.com/features/nationalaffairs/featuregen.asp?pid=2751

I hardly ever see Rolling Stone any more but I happened to see this one and was pleasantly surprised to see an article about the Bush family's ways. It's good to see this in print.

[buycitgo]

1. damn

bought the stupid rag on newstand after seeing article on cover

too bad the ONeill fiasco has successfully wiped Phillips off the stage.

his book is just as damning as Suskind's, if not more

great article, though, except it's way too short

[Melodybe]

2. Wow, this is my second wow in ten minutes

both about the stupidity and evil of this administration. We can and will come back from this. Americans have been the free-est for too long now, you can't just take our government away and expect people to just deal. People know that we are better than this.