My, My, Aren’t We The Lucky Ones?
Heir Apparent George P Bush, the son of a Bush – Jeb, has put considerable thought into where to spread the Bush Dynasty.
He picked Texas.
He ain’t even from here. But he has met “hundreds” of Texans.
In the video, Bush describes spending recent months traveling the state and having hundreds of conversations with Texans — but says he kept returning to the advice of his grandmother, former first lady Barbara Bush, whom he calls “Ganny.” Bush says she taught him the importance of public service.
And what’s he running for? Why, Land Commissioner, of course. The land commissioner administers state-owned lands and mineral resources. And —
… the General Land Office plays an important part in veterans’ affairs while also overseeing investment in the Permanent School Fund, which administers funding to public school districts around Texas.
And that means he can give Permanent University Funds and Veterans’ Land Board accounts to his friends. He can help secure oil leases on Texas’ public lands for friends who want to look for oil.
Yep. That’s certainly a job you’d want a Bush in.
And he’s running behind Gammy’s skirts because she’s the only Bush with a higher approval rating than toad frog soup.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Normally I would say that asking a candidate that old question, “have you stopped beating your wife yet?” is a crude and malicious cheap shot. But George P. — can we call him Pee, like his uncle was Dubya? — has a record of ugly domestic scenes. And by “record,” I mean a police record:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/nut-some-soup-0
1Oh good dog!
2He’s got that look that says—I’m ready to mess up a whole
country if given the chance by family influence, Citizens United and a country full of voters with amnesia and a lack of history.
I don’t know why Granny Bush is well thought of compared to the men in the family. I think her influence on John Ennis, George Walker, and Niel accounts for the greed and social stupidity they’ve demonstrated. Papa (George Herbert Walker) is just a bumpkin.
3Does GW bush have a bad a reputation in Texas as he does elsewhere?
4See those shiny eyes? He comes from the same planet as Michelle Bachman and Callista Gingrich. Weird people!
5He is probably hiding behind Granny Babs skirts because he knows she will stick up for him like she did for his uncle when people criticized him for Katrina. Remember? She told a group of people in Houston that Katrina victims, many of whom had lost their homes and even family members and were living in Gymnasiums that “these people never had it so good.”
6@Diane: Some of us who are old enough to have endured Dubya as our governor didn’t like him, then, either. Way too many residents haven’t figured out what’s wrong with the picture; an unfortunate number of them keep voting for the yahoos who purport to “represent” us at every level…
7Let’s see what we can do to reduce Babbie’s popularity this very day. A gentle reminder (As a veteran, I loathe the woman):
Former First Lady Barbara Bush said of the war in Iraq: “Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?”
“Jackson, could you bring me some more iced tea?” …okay, she didn’t say this last part.
8I hate digging dirt on people but the more on Pee the better I’d say; we sure don’t want him in Texas. I thought he was from Florida but the web says he is an attorney “based in” Fort Worth.
9Actually, for a long while i bypassed mama by using “oh,
10Barbara” in a pinch. The woman IS an expletive. So many conveniently forget that.
There’s a story about Barbara on a plane, that Al Franken tells (love that man). It shows how hateful she can be. She only shows us her smilin’ Grandma face – there is another face that she doesn’t show to the press, but it evidently is the true one.
11When it comes to business experience, George may prove as unsubstantial as his namesake uncle. The State Bar of Texas website lists him as “inactive” even though his occupation is shown to be “inhouse/coorporate counsel. In Texas a lawyer has to be an active member of the State Bar to practice law.
And there does not seem to be much to the St Augustine Partners with which he is associated. His campaign may boil down to, “I need a job, preferably an elected office, any elected office, as I am qualified to hold office because I am a Bush.
12I didn’t recall “P” being quite so dark. He looks as if he’s been in a tanning contest with John of Orange Boehner. Is he wanting to appeal to liberal Texans? How tacky of me! Maybe he got that tan while “meeting hundreds of Texans” in the great outdoors this past winter.
13Land Commissioner is to Governor what pre-school is to kindergarten. It’s where you learn to steal other kids’ toys, bully, and flop down on the floor and cry until you get what you want.
Come to think of it, Land Commissioner is to Governor what pre-school is to Governor.
14How on earth has Barbara Bush manage to fool anyone into thinking she is anything but a nasty, bitter, self-serving harridan?
15Barbara is the she-wolf that whelped that bunch! DO NOT make the error of thinking she is some kind of cute sweet cookie baking grandmother. That woman was born into wealth and power and that’s why a good-looking flyboy from a prominent East Coast political family married her. Think Winnie Mandela, not Mother Goose! Or think Eudora for those of you that like old sit-coms (of course, the lady who played Eudora was MUCH better looking!)
16My mother used to say “every child deserves his own name”—she was against naming children after relatives. Here we have at least the 3rd George Bush. Someone forgot to tell the Bush clan that there are other names available. My guess is that Pee won’t be the last George in that family. They seem to get dumber in each generation–a scary thought!!
17Since the Pee thing will take a while to incubate, we can all fill the time if we sit back and watch the Jennifer Carroll mess blow up in Florida. Since she quit today as looie guv, maybe her Okie friends can get her admitted to Oral Roberts University in Tulsa to work on her doctorate. She’s apparently well-qualified, having been exposed as receiving her master’s from a diploma mill. This dolly has more scandals sticking to her than fleas on a river-bottom coyote. So take a seat and get ready to watch the best Republican porn show in the media today.
18Here’s hoping we are being given the opportunity to nip Pee’s political career in the bud. And here’s hoping we’re up to the task. I suspect we’ll regret it if we don’t.
19Why isn’t he running in Florida? Afraid of Daddy’s “legacy”?
20Pee’s mother, Columba, is Mexican-American, so let’s not lump him in with
21John of Orange (love that title), but we can lump him in with the other
Bush political profiteers who claim to “serve” the public. We know all too well what that means.
I started disliking Barbara back when she dissed Geraldine Ferraro. She called her a “witch with a B” in a TV interview. Calling another woman a “B” for having the audacity to run against your husband for public office is pretty low class in my book. Nothing she’s done since has improved my opinion of her.
22@Maryelle, we in Texas know that Geo P’s mama is from Mexico. You betcha that’s why he is seeking his fortunes in Texas. If Colomba were Cuban, he’d be running in Florida. Since he doesn’t have the Hispanic surname, it’s my considered opinion he will woo us Texans with his ethnicity, and if he has to darken up a little to look more authentic, he will do it. Look at the Jeb Bush family portraits. This is all for the Texas electorate.
23The Telegraph in theUK has a feature piece on young George P. It contains this:
“For he was recently sent to Iraq as an intelligence officer in the Navy reserves – a war-zone deployment that only further burnishes his credentials as a politician-in-waiting.”
How does someone who has violence toward women tendencies, not to mention disregard for the property of others, get a security clearance for Naval Intell. ?
His family got him out of it and bo doubt the fix was in for the security clearance. No integrity. He should NOT hold public office.
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