Charles Pierce: George Bush Sr. Thinks His Son Hired a Bunch of Fools

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33332-george-bush-sr-thinks-his-son-hired-a-bunch-of-fools

I'm beginning to think that Jeb (!) Bush's entire stumbling presidential campaign is really only part of a general family operation to clean up the reputation of C-Plus Augustus. (It sure doesn't seem to be about electing the Jeb!ster president.) First, Jeb (!) tries out The Great Mulligan on stage, and everybody points and laughs. And now, here comes Poppy, explaining how his layabout spalpeen was misled by the two family retainers he'd hired. And, curiously, here comes Poppy also to explain how Good Dick Cheney fell under the spell of the "real hard-charging guys," as though Cheney wasn't an executive-power bondage freak for his entire public career.

(Read the minority report of the special committee on Iran-Contra, written by aides to none other than Congressman Dick Cheney of Wyoming. Its historical resonance will curl your hair. Come to think of it, we I-C obsessives are very interested in seeing if the Parson lets Poppy skate again on his involvement in the scheme.)

It's hard to imagine recent American history without the involvement of the Bush family and its assorted hangers-on, coat-holders, and sycophants. But, goddamn, it's nice to try.its assorted

[tblue37]

1. K&R. nt

[WinkyDink]

2. "George Bush Sr. Thinks He Sired a Bunch of Fools." FIXED.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. LOL

good one..... but I don't think them as fools
to be in power for so long

George Bush Sr dad was a Nazi enabler so we must go back further

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

[WinkyDink]

5. Sure, I went for the joke, but I know it is gallows humor. The entire family is Fascist.

[brush]

14. And Prescott Bush was also knee deep in the attempted coup against FDR

Google the American Liberty League of the 1930s.

[longship]

4. Good old Charlie Pierce! R&K nt

[Demeter]

6. I for one am grateful that Poppy is having regrets

It will prepare him for the eternal torment he will be serving in hell. And if there isn't a hell, I'm sure God will make one special, just for him!

[Fast Walker 52]

11. as terrible as Poppy is, at least he is showing some degree of self-awareness, which

is far more than Darth Cheney ever has... or W, for that matter.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. I think he's trying to protect his son from the possibility of an international tribunal.

Pleading ignorance is an old and tried way of skating from responsibility. And, unfortunately, there is plenty of character witnesses on the internet that he can rely on that will agree with him that his son is an idiot.

[Demeter]

17. Where have you seen any hint of a tribunal?

I think he's just dying, and getting his last work in.

[leveymg]

7. If I recall, Cheney and Rumsfeld were initially hired by Ford and Dick was Poppy's SecDef

If there's a fool to blame, they are all a club of fools.

[FlatBaroque]

15. I have long believed that Nixon's departure

as well as Spiro Agnew's departure, both of which paved the way for Ford to ascend to the oval office, are somehow related to Rumsfeld, Cheney and their minions infiltrating the federal government.

[livetohike]

8. Me too!!! n/t

[Jesus Malverde]

9. And then we pretend the bumbling scrub and his accomplices

Haven't changed America forever....and gotten away with it.

[perdita9]

10. He couldn't have spoken up when it would have made a difference?

Instead George the Smarter does his pontificating after the wars have been started, the prisoners have been tortured and the economy was crashed.

Worse than useless. He should have just kept his mouth shut.

[merrily]

12. Yes. Same bunch of fools Poppy hired! Neither of them knew how to choose people, which

a President needs to know.

[MattSh]

16. That's what fools do. They associate with other fools.

Not exactly breaking news though. It's been happening for centuries.

[Nitram]

18. Hired a bunch of fools? Most of them were HW Bush's fools

But this is a great turn of events. Chaos in the GOP as the Bush Dynasty cracks up.

[Thor_MN]

19. Same reason Reagan and GHW Bush's Presidencies wwere pieces of crap?

[FSogol]

20. C'mon, this is a transparent attempt by the Bush clan to say Jeb won't be exactly like his brother.

It is total nonsense. W hired the same clowns involved with his father and Jeb already has the whole scummy crew as "advisers." The country isn't falling for it.

[IHateTheGOP]

21. And the biggest fool of all? W.

[IHateTheGOP]

22. These true comments from HW will make it more difficult for righties to rewrite history.

[Art_from_Ark]

23. Nah, they'll just attribute the comments

to the ramblings of a senile old man.