Aww. Shrub has to cut vacation for FORD. Plus Saddam's hanging date.

[UTUSN]

I thought CARTER had a nest of vipers at his breast------Tweety, Pat CADDELL, and RUBENSTEIN (the staffer who went on to co-found the Carlyle Group).

But FORD had Darth RUMS and CHEENEE perfecting their mastery of the bureaucratic realities, the how-to exercise absolute POWER absolutely.

Well, Poppy had an other variety of vipers---ATWATER and all his proteges (ROVE, Roger STONE), assorted Nazis, and rogue CIA.

Shrub has mostly used Poppy's retreads. While any prospect of Jeb Crow Shrub taking power will be bleak, he will mostly have to find NEW scoundrels.

And Saddam's hanging date can be "any day." So, first there will be Jerry's funeral. 'course they won't interrupt that. But it will be a peachy distraction from anything the new Dem majority will have to say.

By the way, what happened to the ISG recommendations? Several of them had due-dates for accomplishing being 12-31, albeit with the escape clause that if they couldn't be, then for sure by the end of the first quarter.

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3994.htm

.... In a column posted yesterday on Salon.com, Joe Conason writes: "Preferring to avoid public scrutiny for obvious reasons, executives at the Carlyle Group usually say nothing about their firm's connections with the Bush dynasty. But last April 23, Carlyle managing director David Rubenstein spoke quite frankly about the comfy sinecure he provided to George W. Bush more than a decade ago -- and how useless Bush turned out to be. Whether he knew it or not, Rubenstein's remarks to the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association were recorded."

Rubenstein said, "We put (Bush) on the board and (he) spent three years. Came to all the meetings. Told a lot of jokes. Not that many clean ones. And after a while I kind of said to him, after about three years - you know, I'm not sure this is really for you. Maybe you should do something else. Because I don't think you're adding that much value to the board. You don't know that much about the company.

Rubenstein continued: "He said, 'Well, I think I'm getting out of this business anyway. And I don't really like it that much. So I'm probably going to resign from the board.' And I said, thanks - didn't think I'd ever see him again. His name is George W. Bush. He became President of the United States. So you know if you said to me, name 25 million people who would maybe be President of the United States, he wouldn't have been in that category. So you never know. Anyway, I haven't been invited to the White House for any things." ....

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[xultar]

1. he wouldn't cut his vacation for one of the worst natural disasters in US history

with a devistating impact of hundreds of thousands...but he'll cut it for Ford.


OK.

I get it.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Being President is HARD WORK. n/t