Before It’s Too Late 
Just when we are shedding the Bushes and cracks appear in the His ‘n Her Presidencies juggernaut, a new dynastic threat looms.
It may take swallowing a second generation of Romney, but it’s a price worth paying to strangle this political career in it’s cradle.
When the New York Times asked Nixon’s Grandson about his future, Christopher Nixon Cox brings the coy:
“When asked if he would ever consider running for public office, Mr. Cox sidestepped a bit. “For me, the key is to serve my country and my community in whatever way I can,†he said. “It can’t be about ego. It has to be about using my talents to serve the country in the best way I can. Right now, that means working for John McCain.â€
You have been warned.
Mysteries of Texas 
The Financial Times sheds some light on one of the 2008 Presidential campain’s oddities: how George H.W. Bush came to host Mitt Romney for his Mormon 2.0 speech at the Bush Library. The FT discussed how the many candidates have related to not-for-profits in the past as clues to their prospective administrations.
“Of concern with Mitt Romney and Giuliani is their assessment about the judgment of people they associate with in the non-profit sector. As a board member of the Points of Life Foundation, Romney was involved in the organisation’s merger with the Hands On Network, which chose Neil Bush, the president’s brother, as vice-chair and chair-elect. Bush does not convey an image of the highest standards of non-profit probity thanks to a history of dubious business and non-profit endeavours. These include the Silverado Savings and Loan collapse (costing American taxpayers $1.3bn) and having his mother, Barbara, pitch for charitable donations that would be designated to help school systems buy his learning software.”
Mama Tried 
They are letting Neil off easy. His Asian whore mongering while in the service of dubious businessmen is legend.
Ignite!’s stuff is comically bad.
Reaching today’s teens through the universal language of Rap, a bored singer intones Machines and Profit in World Cultures, Europe in Transition, Topic 4: Industrial Revolution:
“with government out of the way, industrialists ruled the day…and got the pay”
And yes, they are on the YouthTube.
Bush’s business model focuses on getting local schools to buy one of his expensive “Cows” [“Curriculum on Wheels”], which appear to be a tricked up box of notebooks.
With wheels! 
Ill-starred Presidential filmmaker Oliver Stone now threatens a George Bush biopic, with a leading man offering all the “same drive and charisma that Americans identify with Bush.”
Stone’s “JFK” was an incoherent mash-up of as many conspiracy theories as sleepy Kevin Costner could carry, and “Nixon” was just dull. 
My personal hope is that Stone’s Bush takes a flashback to the Reagan/Bush 80s and 90s, and somehow finally explains what the hell Jim Belushi’s “Doctor Rock” character was doing in Salvador. 
“Stone Says I’ve Got It” 
Bush marks MLK Day.
Blanket Agreement 
Yet another thing we can blame on the nation’s most distinguished placeholder, Gerry Ford. After he left office!
Along with doing down Reagan, Nixon, much of the 70s, and the Clintons, Ford in the tell-all “Write It When I’m Gone” lets it be known that he was responsible for the North American Free Trade Agreement.
It happened at a 1993 Clinton sleepover in Colorado.
“Up until that point, President Clinton cared less about NAFTA. He wasn’t interested. I spent most of my time with him promoting NAFTA, urging him to take action, to get going … I honestly can claim full credit for getting him off dead center on NAFTA,” Ford recalled in May 1994. “Now, once he got interested, he did a damn good job. He twisted arms, he browbeat Democrats and he put on a good event in the East Room with Carter, Bush and myself. You know, he’s a helluva salesman.”
And the blessings poured fourth! Ourmostathleticpresident
can take the credit and the blame.
For fashion icon Subcomandante Marcos… 
…but also for the NAFTA Superhighway maps which infest the web
[choose one!] 
The blessings continue today. The new year saw the fall of more barriers to American agriculture crushing Mexican farmers.
“The population working in the primary sector (agriculture, livestock, forestry, hunting, and fishing) fell drastically, from 8.2 million people in 1991 to 6.1 million in 2006… Those working in the primary sector represented 26.8% of the total working population in 1991 but only 14.6% in 2006. According to a study commissioned by the government, the number of agricultural households diminished from 2.3 million in 1992 to 575,000 in 2002.”
Wherever did all those farmers go?
The problem with Gerry’s story is that Clinton endorsed NAFTA before the 1992 election. So never-mind.
The Diamonds & Despots Tour 
President Bush’s tour of our many gallant Middle Eastern allies has drawn to a close, with a Hosni Mubarak Sharm El
Sheik grip ‘n grin.
It’s been an orgy of photo-ops and gifts, items that will someday find their home at Bush’s Fantastic Freedom Institute
And if the pattern of at least the last two Presidents repeats, Saudi, UAE and Kuwaiti money will help build Bush’s temple to himself.
That’s My Bush 
