UPDATED: George P. Bush Begins Run for the Presidency
UPDATE: Mayor Sylvester Turner and County Commissioner Rodney Ellis have decided to take no shit from P. They’ve written a joint letter to HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge requesting she “…halt all GLO actions associated with the current State Action Plan pending HUD’s review for appropriate and equitable distribution of funds to protect our city and region and build resilience as we adapt to an uncertain future.” Looks like P overstepped here, and hopefully he’ll get sent to the woodshed for being a partisan asshole. More to come.
ORIGINAL STORY: No, “P” hasn’t announced his run for the WH, but he’s most certainly started in that direction. Since April, he’s been floating a run against criminally indicted Ken Paxton, who has somehow avoided trial for the last 5 years for securities fraud. A demonstrated weirdo who has managed to be on the wrong side of every issue, Paxton has become weakened by scandal and become a target for being primaried, and it looks like P has him in his political sights. P’s also been trying to shore up his conservative creds, even now pandering to the Texas GOP base which is all in on Trump, The Big Lie, and wishing death on everyone who disagrees politically.
P’s latest allocation of federal emergency funds for flood control in Texas counties is the hard evidence that exposes his pandering to the base. In a $1 billion flooding mitigation grant from the federal government, Houston, which experienced 50% of the states’s damage from Harvey, received exactly…wait for it…zero. That’s right, Houston which went for Biden in 2020 and continues to vote Democratic, was punished for voting against those who are supported by P’s base. P has joined the deplorable wing of the GOP, happy to inflict suffering on fellow Texans, just to burnish his image for being an asshole for his base. They think its funny. Those who are suffering don’t. Oh, and his spokesman lied, saying that they followed federal guidelines for distribution, but that’s bullshit, just like everything else coming out of P’s office.
The Bush’s are carpetbaggers, being New England bluebloods, but they’ve not generally been destructive to their adopted state. W was stupid, manipulated by the corruption of Dick Cheney and others who duped him into invading Iraq. HW was a milquetoast, but was a traditional diplomat who accomplished getting Saddam out of Kuwait. Jeb, also a milquetoast, got bulldozed by the Orange Menace. What P is doing is more sinister…he’s playing to everything that’s bad about Americans, especially those who are all-in on Trump bullshit and corruption. Urinating on the shoes of everyone in Houston is just a start. It’s going to get worse.
Wondering when a political version of Newton’s Third Law “every action has an equal and opposite reaction” comes into play? Are people in places like Houston just going to roll over and let the Rs like P face no consequences for their actions, (which is historically accurate since 1980 at least)?
1Considering that the Bush family history includes slave trading, gun running, supporting the Nazis, attempted coup here in the U’S., etc., is anyone surprised by the lack of anything resembling ethics or morality among the current generation of Bush’s?
2The USA needs another Bush like it needs another year of epidemic Covid infections. Which we may get anyway, thanks to the same crop of idiots who would vote for yet another Bush.
3Now I know why the Salon disappeared for the last several days. So where did the 1 billion go?
4Mitigating the Deregulated State Power system I’ll wager. Sort of like Houston and Harris receiving the Ten Plagues of Egypt on steroids? I saw people dipping spaghetti pots into their swimming pools for water to flush toilets. Not forgetting $9,000 utility bills either. Y’all need to forget about deregulatin’ electricity and start deregulating all the politithieves. Putting all the indicted ones on billboards first.
Barbara Bush told us that we’ve had enough Bushes but there’s another. Now would be a good time for the news to dig up that Dennis Bonen recording of how the GOP intended to put the screws to cities!
5How bad was Trump?
6Trump was sooo bad that he made the names of war criminal and corporate fascists, Bush and Cheney, look reasonable.
I am not a Texan, but I seem to remember that George P Bush has a job as Commissioner of Something-or-Other that he can’t be bothered to do, already. Why does he need another one? C’mon Texas! You can do better than this!
Barbara Bush was right: we don’t need any more Bushes in politics–ever. Especially, we don’t need one willing to sell out to the worst in US politics to get elected. We had a president like that, albeit not a Bush, and it didn’t work out well.
7Please keep us up dated on what Pee is doing. Hopefully we can help monkey wrench his ambitions.
8So glad to see Houston fighting back.
9We always called the whole clan bushwhackers. The Australian definition of a bushwhacker is a not very intelligent person. I think that fits his dad and uncle W. Barb Bush knows.
10I’m not at all up to speed on Pee, but to think he’s pandering to the Trumpf cult is so unbelievable. No, it’s totally repugnantican. What else can he do?
Hope he does get sent to the woodshed but there’s lots more of them in TX. And everywhere.
El Jefe, you have come closer than anybody else I’ve ever seen in print to my assessment of all the Bushes.
I find Barb the least reprehensible: she had the insight to know that we’d had enough Bushes in government, and HW’s library in College Station told me she always wore mismatched shoes on their boat outings–which tells me she also had a sense of humor.
11“What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas,” Barbara Bush said in an interview on Monday with the radio program “Marketplace.” “Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway,” she said, “so this is working very well for them.”
yeah, that was some funny stuff…..
12Richard Nixon on George H.W. and Barbara Bush: “Oh, he’s okay, he can do his job. He’s just not very interesting. Now Barbara Bush, she’s interesting. She knows how to hate.”
13I wonder how all of the conservative people in suburban Harris County feel about getting completely left out in the cold by their elected officials. No politician of either party should ever behave in this manner. He should be recalled or impeached or sentenced to life at Mar A Lago as Trump’s personal masseuse.
Harvey was a horrific tragedy and this is a terrible way to treat the wonderful people of Houston.
14What qualifies George P Bush to run for President?
15Remember when Jeb Bush poked a crowd of elders when he was trying to gin up a Presidential run? Well, P has the same fate waiting on him. Absolutely glazed eyes from one and all.
16Don’t bet the rent money. Pee must have the blessing of Dan Patrick or he wouldn’t have come so far, so fast. He even took on the DRT over the Alamo and came out OK. Dan Patrick is probably the most Texan person among the Trump crowd.
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