Remembering history the way they wished it had been
Good Points?
Unclear where the budget fight is going after the House failed to override President Bush’s veto of the Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill. Republicans highlighted selected earmarks they could mock, while ignoring Bush’s own little requests.
The administration’s $8.9 million request for Dad’s Points of Light Foundation was cut before the vote.
Trade?
“I sometimes wonder if I was really there”
The Senior President Bush speaking for many Americans as he muses about the Oval Office at his reopened and gussied up Presidential Library.
Hey! Lookie Here!
Former President George Bush parachutes into the reopening of his Presidential Library. It’s an apparent desperation bid for attention by the single term President whose museum is located off the beaten path in College Station Texas.
Presidential Libraries face declining attendance nationally, as do most museums.
I’m Back!
The Maine artist whose Bush and Cheney murals were yanked from a Kennebunk art exhibit has won their return.
Painful local discussion panels to still follow.
The Offenders 
Flag Desecration OK, but don’t offend the Bushs.
We will probably have to wait until the next even numbered year for a stormy Congressional Flag Desecration vote, but George H.W. Bush’s inland neighbors in Kennebunk Maine are focusing instead on what really matters: caricatures of the current President and Vice President.
Artist and apparent local crank G. Bud Swenson 
makes paintings in part from cut up flags. A Kennebunk Free Library show was fine with that after some hesitation, but at the last minute demanded he yank two paintings.
The Library’s director told seacostonline that the paintings “crossed the bounds of acceptable community standards.”
The show went on without our leaders’ portraits, and the library hopes to bore everyone into silence with two “public forums” and a little dialoguin’
