Our Fauntleroy Still Thinks He's Special(former)
By Daniel Ruth,
The Tampa TribuneMarch 11, 2008
It was a royally annoyed Jeb Bush who showed up in Lakeland the other day, which was sort of odd.
After all, the former governor was about make a very nice chunk of change off a bunch of unsuspecting marks, who had coughed up $300-a-pop to listen to a bunch of twaddle about how wonderful the Bush Junta years were for the state.
Instead, the ex-governor was in a sour mood, as if he had given himself a wedgie, after a bunch of nosy reporters started asking the Diocletian of the Apalachee Parkway why he treated his eight years in office as if his reign was one giant Skull & Bones meeting.
The Infamous Scribblers, as George Washington once referred to journalists, peppered Bush with questions about his hatched-in-secret plan to buy up 61 miles of CSX Transportation track in the Orlando area for $491 million, which would then enable the company to enhance its freight line traffic through a new Polk County hub.
At first, according to The Ledger newspaper in Lakeland, the Little Lord Fauntleroy of Tallahassee refused to take questions from reporters, as if they had any right to inquire into Bush's $491 million air kiss to CSX.
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The gall of some of those ink-stained peons.
Simply because the governor sold Lakeland down the river in backroom negotiation leading to a $491 million door prize to CSX, what business was it for anyone in Lakeland to ask him about it, merely because he happened to be in Lakeland to stuff a speaking fee into his smoking jacket?
But as the questions persisted, The Brother Who Should Have Been President Instead Of The Bush Family's Answer To Tommy Smothers grew agitated, insisting his Love Potion No. 491 Million to CSX was not cooked up in secret at all.
After all - he knew about it. How much more transparent could things possibly be?
Sure, there were no public hearings on the CSX canoodling. As well, many affected state legislators were kept in the dark about the deal.
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Why needlessly bother anyone, especially because Jeb Bush knew what was best for all, because Jeb Bush is - special.
Now Bush's footsie-wootsie with CSX is coming under increased scrutiny from the press, as well as the Legislature, which has questioned the enormity of $491 million in corporate welfare to a company with the wherewithal to pick up its own tab. ..... Bush spent eight years posing for holy pictures as governor, treating the state's open government laws like they were broccoli on his father's dinner plate.
When he was asked what he thought would be the fate of the CSX lap dance during this legislative session, the Eddie Haskell of political dynasties sniffed: "I don't care."
Some things never change.
Floridians will be paying for these eight miserable, vindictive years of Jeb Bush for many years to come.
In fact, so will our country be paying dearly for the last half century of this one family's destructiveness.
Gov.
Jeb Bush joked during a Florida Cabinet meeting Wednesday that the people of San Francisco may be endangered and, "That's probably good news for the country."
The subject was environmental land and Bush was looking at a map of showing locations with a lot of different wildlife at the time.
"It looks like the people of San Francisco are an endangered species, which may not be a bad thing. That's probably good news for the country."
In the 1992 campaign against Bill Clinton,
George H. W. Bush mocked Gore as “ozone man” and claimed, “This guy is so far out in the environmental extreme we’ll be up to our necks in owls and outta work for every American.”
The Bush divorce, completed in April after 23 years of marriage, was prompted in part by Bush's relationship with another woman. He admitted in the deposition that he previously had sex with several other women while on trips to Thailand and Hong Kong at least five years ago.
The women, (
Neil Bush) said, simply knocked on the door of his hotel room, entered and had sex with him. He said he did not know if they were prostitutes because they never asked for money and he did not pay them.
"Mr. Bush, you have to admit it's a pretty remarkable thing for a man just to go to a hotel room door and open it and have a woman standing there and have sex with her," Brown said.
"It was very unusual," Bush said.
"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths,"
Barbara Bush said on ABC's "Good Morning America" on March 18, 2003. "Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
George W. Bush, January 28, 2003, State of the Union Address
The Family.