The fall of the house of bush.

[Philosoraptor]

Ol' prescott bush would not be happy were he to see how his first grandson has royally fucked up the bush family's choke hold on America's government and treasury. A generation of bush's, finally halted by the one called george jr.

What a legacy to have lost, what a story to be told, what a Greek tragedy with an inevitable conclusion. It's the story that will be told for a thousand years, how the mighty bush family rose to such lofty heights, and fell to such shameful depths.

The bush family is America's premiere family, our royalty, the first family of our generation, and what a dysfunctional family it is. Now we are witnessing the bush family in descent, in retreat, sinking into the fissure they've cracked open, the whole bush mansion sucked into the swamp with us along for the ride.

Remember when the bush's ruled the land? Those were crazy days, our lowest, most shameful point in history, the years that we allowed the bush family to suck our blood and steal our money and murder our sons and murder thousands upon thousands of innocent people, it's all coming to a horrible, bloody end, at last, at long last.

[NJCher]

1. ouch, eek, stop

We must never refer to the bushes as "royalty." The closest we ever came to that was Camelot and then then we did indeed have some incredibly telegenic leaders, Bobby and RFK, and the inimitable Jacqueline Kennedy.

No, the bushes are more like The Sopranos. As a nation, we have devolved and we must choose metaphors that are more in keeping with the devolvement.




Cher

[chknltl]

4. Ya but .......with the Sopranos....

I could change the channel. I keep aiming my remote at bush and nothin happens! :shrug:

[EST]

7. It serves one well to remember history.

The Kennedys were also a dynasty, cut down by assassins' bullets.
Joe Kennedy, an inept ambassador, secured his ambassadorship through political power, support and money. His position as ambassador, not the job he really wanted, allowed him to quietly go about the same high powered criminality the Bushes enjoyed.

It is fairly widely established that Joe bought the presidency for his son and the huge amount of election fraud that accompanied and smoothed his entry was distinguished by its overt character; mostly nobody gave a damn. (Except, of course the honest, little people and the crooks who executed the fraud)
Democratic election fraud in Chicago was stunning.

Jack Kennedy's philandering was so blatant and obnoxious that the press, given to looking the other way from such things like the current warm stream media ignores the wingnuts' criminal enterprises, was so outraged that even they were becoming quite uncomfortable with his excesses.

Jack was a talented politician, with considerable empathy and vision and a rotten disregard for betrayal in his personal relationships.

There was also quite a bit of speculation that, had he survived, his re-election in 1964 would have been problematic.

Robert Kennedy, attorney general for Jack and candidate in 1968 was also noted for his own sexual peccadilloes, not quite so blatant as his brother's exploits.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

10. But I'd rather have someone who lies about sex

to the public than someone who lies us into a war. JFK would probably have gotten us out of Viet Nam before it became a quagmire; of course, we'll never know for sure. All in all, I'd say that the Kennedy dynasty moved up from the sleeziness of Joe to the hard work of Teddy in the Senate yet today. From the Bushes, there has been no moving up, growing into the responsibility to the nation that I think you see in Teddy Kennedy. Just my two cents.

[ClintonTyree]

2. They're not over yet....

you talk as if this situation has past. "Little Boots" still has 2 more years to wreak havoc upon our nation and the world. Hopefully a Democratic Congress will clip his wings but there's still ample opportunity for the little Texas weasel to compound his transgressions.
I can't wait until the name "Bush" is eradicated from our lexicon as well. I say we have a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anyone named Bush from ever holding any public office again. It would be a step in the right direction.

[Philosoraptor]

3. Like movie monsters, they're hard to kill.

[Tellurian]

14. Yes, you've got that right..

this time is but a time of chaos within the Bush ranks. The infighting has gone public and that is what we are witnessing.
Bush/Cheney aren't about to let Poppy and Co come in and tell THEM what to do and how to run things.

When I saw Lieberman and 'the dumber than a box of rocks' McCain out there first thing this morning getting face time, supporting Bush, saying, the new study is wrong and not the way to go... I couldn't believe they would make the selling of
their souls, so obvious to anyone watching.

The infighting is only going to get worse and more public, now that the Republican Party has officially SPLIT!

The silver lining in this cloud is...it will be fun to watch who gets who first!

[Hekate]

5. Cornered rats are dangerous, and these are big ones. Don't let your guard down for a minute.

The Bushes are still very powerful indeed. They may be shamed by Baby Caligula and chagrined that Jeb the Smart didn't make it to the White House instead, but the clan is still obscenely powerful and filthy rich.

Hekate

[Chimichurri]

8. You got that right.

[lonestarnot]

12. Yes but none of us get out of this world alive so earth has that to look

forward to, one of these days destruction by their hands will be stopped.

[gademocrat7]

6. This has been a national nightmare.

Dishonesty, greed, arrogance and incompetence sum up shrub and his family.

[The Count]

9. History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, then a farce. Poppy and W were these two

for us. Jr might have wrecked tragedy around him, but he, himself was but a farce, a joke on the lows this office can get.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Factoid...

Joe Lieberman Kisses Bush...

I'll bet Prescott's ghost really laughs about that!

[Bad Penny]

13. I miss Ike

Probably refering to the Bush's:

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

[Tellurian]

15. Bush has found another way..

to raid Social Security and Medicare. He's borrowing from it..
same thing but better. He's given himself a license to steal.