- Prescott Bush was a Military Intelligence Officer during WWI. He wrote letters home talking of his daring heroic exploits, and the medals he received for such. Turned out later, he hadn't actually won any medals or performed said deeds. He claimed he'd been joking, and didn't expect his family to tell anyone he was a hero.
- His name came up in congressional testimony about The Business Plot in 1934. Smedley Butler alleged that Bush was one of several businessmen planning to replace the US President with a Fascist dictatorship.
- The assets of one of Bush's companies, UBC, were frozen under the Trading With The Enemy Act in 1942.
- Despite those allegations and entanglements, he served as a US Senator in the 50s and 60s.
- His son, George Herbert Walker Bush, was Director of the CIA, and later Vice President and then President of the United States.
- George H.W. Bush claims to have not been connected to the CIA prior to his sudden appointment as Director. Despite such claims, there is a fair amount of circumstantial evidence linking him to the Bay of Pigs.
- There's also an FBI memo (released via FOIA) that says he was briefed by the FBI in '63 regarding the then recent JFK assassination.
- Ross Perot claimed that the reason he dropped out of the election in 1992 was because of being blackmailed by George H.W. Bush, who had digitally altered photos that would ruin Perot's daughter's impending wedding.
- Some versions of that story tell it that George H.W. Bush (as Vice President) was actively impeding Perot's efforts at locating and rescuing P.O.W.'s still in Vietnam, and that Bush's interference was the cause of Perot running against him in the first place.
- Niel Bush was a key figure in the Savings & Loan scandal of the 80s.
- Niel Bush had dinner plans with his good friend Scott Hinckley on March 30th, 1981. This is important because that same day Scott's brother John Hinckley Jr shot President Reagan. Had Reagan died, Niel's father, George, would have become President 8 years early.
- Jeb Bush was Governor of Florida, where he exerted his influence in a battle over the interpretation of ballots, which resulted in the Supreme Court declaring his brother (George Dubya Bush) President.
- George Dubya Bush was President during 9/11 and related death of 3,000 Americans,
- the trillion dollar War in Iraq and resultant death of 4,000 more Americans,
- Hurricane Katrina and it's embarrassing absentee government aftermath,
- the collapse of the US Housing Market,
- the collapse of the US financial sector,
- torture at Guantanamo,
- extraordinary rendition,
- the politicization of the Justice Department,
- a nationwide average of over $4 a gallon in gas,
- the erosion of the Constitution and our civil liberties,
- and outright voter fraud in Ohio that is now finally getting it's day in court.
- Did I miss anything? It turns out I missed these:
- Outright abuse of the line-item veto.
- Record amounts of time on vacation.
- Outright abuse of "executive privilege".
- Enron scandal (involving Bush's buddy Kenneth Lay)
- Halliburton profiteering (involving conflicts of interest for Bush's VP Dick Cheney)
- Abu-Ghraib prison scandal
- enough High Crimes and Misdemeanors to fill 35 articles of Impeachment
Monday, September 29, 2008
That Man's Family (some people just shouldn't have children)
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conspiracy theory,
elitism,
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impeachment,
politics,
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Off the top of my head, two things for Dubya:
* Outright abuse of the line-item veto.
* Record amounts of time on vacation.
Shit!
Also,
* Outright abuse of "executive privilege".
Thank you. I added those, and a couple more I just remembered.
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