Kennebunkport Kleptocrats

[CorpGovActivist]

Ever wonder how Poppy and Bar got all that trust fund money?

Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush was the longest-serving Director of Dresser Industries - the Asbestos Shame in the Bush Warlords' closet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush

Dresser was the liability-riddled company that Dick Cheney decided to buy in 1998 - to keep the story from becoming an obstacle for Shrubya.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=cheney+dresser+halliburton&spell=1

Now, I cast my first vote in a Presidential election for Bush 41 (I plead youthful indiscretion). My reasoning at the time was that: 1. Bush and Baker had a decent shot at parlaying the goodwill engendered by the first Gulf War into a comprehensive peace deal in the Middle East, if given that shot in a second term; and 2. Bush went back on his "no new taxes" pledge in a good faith attempt to balance the budget and reap the peace dividend (and though this may not be popular to say here, some of the Democratic leaders at the time double-crossed him, by failing to hold up their end of the bargain).

In 96, I voted for Clinton. In 97, I exchanged e-mails with my college roommate, predicting that Dubya would be the GOP nominee in 00, if certain conditions were met between 97 and 00 (Shrubya failed to meet the criteria I laid out to my roommate, so I voted McCain in the primaries and Gore in the general; Karenna was one year behind me at Harvard, and her dad was my class's Commencement speaker in 94). In 04, I voted for Kerry.

My vote was Shrubya's to lose in 00, as evidenced by my 97 e-mail exchange with my college roommate. Shrubya lost it - "big time," to quote Cheney.

McCain's was mine to lose in 08, but there comes a point after which W's Waterboy doesn't look like a major league player anymore. McCain - like Colin Powell - had (past tense) the stature to stand up to the President.

After the real Republicans in my party excommunicate and expel the Mastadon's, Neo-Cons, Neo-Siths, and outright Fascists from our party, we look forward to working with the new Democratic majority as the loyal opposition.

When I came out to my family as a gay man, they took it in stride. When I came out as a Republican - mercy, that was a whole other kettle of fish. But I believe, like a true conservative, that our republican form of government works best when (wo)men of good conscience work together in good faith, keep an open mind about each other's ideas, and keep a watchful eye on each other's more power-hungry "leaders".

And if I were aging in Kennebunkport, I'd be thinking seriously about the tainted source of the trust funds.

After all, the grandkids are putting it to bad use anyway: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=jeb+bush+drug+daughter+noelle

And Poppy's wartime service to his country during WW II hasn't been matched by another Bush Family member since???

Spare us the artificial patrician noblesse oblige, and put a Bush grandkid or two in uniform. Then, maybe you can come talk to us real Republicans about whether Jeb should just go bankrupt another S&L, or whether he has any chance of ever getting the nomination.

Just one thing: Jeb won't escape the family's Asbestos Shame on the campaign trail, like Dubya did.

KKKarl and the Cheney Chain Gang fooled Amurikuh once. Never again.

- David A. Smith, Editor of BushBunglesBrigade.org and HALwhistleblowers.org
(not to be confused with David R. Smith, VP of Tax at Halliburton)