Bush: The Looming Legacy
04-May-09
Silence Is Golden 
Despite becoming actually more unpopular since leaving office, George W. Bush is quietly on his way to building the Bush Presidential Library ‘n Reputation Restorer in Dallas.
He has reportedly raised one hundred million dollars towards the library/rehab center at Southern Methodist University.
Time reports that the cash is rolling in despite the economy’s current enjoyment of the fruits of the Bush era. The ex-president went from beloved by 31% of the populace down to 26%Â according to the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll [the numbers are buried on page 9 of the pdf at the bottom of the linked page]
Meanwhile, Southern Methodist University’s attorney is under a gag order in the wake of jury pool tainting allegations.
SMU is being sued over land once considered as part of the Bush Presidential Library,with former condo owners suing the University claiming information about the looming Library was withheld.
The judge in the case had ordered the former president to testify in the case, and is concerned with remarks by SMU attorney Mark Lanier who called those suing the university “terrorists,” and complained that they had rejected a $2 million offer to go away.
This in the wake of SMU hiring a prominent local Democratic lawyer, in the predominantly Democrat-leaning Dallas.
Rebuilding Reagan 
The Reagan Presidential Library takes its place at the trough this summer, as Madera Road will be widened from the hilltop shrine to Semi Valley. More than half of the $2.7 million cost will come from federal funds.
America’s titanic struggle over dreaded “pork,” apparently detectable by “earmarks,” featured many stirring calls to block money going to those corrupt presidential libraries.
Watch for Freedom’s Warriors on this one!