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Gas Goes South 

Not content with sparking America’s new tea-bagging sensation, CNBC Loser Laureate Rick Santelli takes his angry prophecy to Texas next week, speaking at the George H. W. Bush Library’s storied “Economic Leadership Forum.”

The Bush Library has apparently recovered from Chuck Norris’s stirring “McLane Leadership in Business Award” visit.

Making The Numbers Work 

On the eve of George W. Bush’s brain trust meeting to dope out his average Wal-Mart Super Center-sized presidential library’s future, his handlers remain evasive on exhibition formats and content.

Bush’s legion of the lost are to dine with the ex-president Monday, then spend Tuesday big thinkin’ about his library and rehabilitation center. The New York Times now reports that the Bush era will be summed up by discussing “20 consequential decisions,” up from just 12 earlier this month, and that Iraq has made a triumphant return as a topic for discussion, whereas before we’d been told it was best left to “history.”

Bush himself offers his own smilingly vague thoughts on the library-to-be in a video produced by a Republican campaign operative. He gets into the spirit of the thing by dropping the classic “Democrat”as opposed to “Democratic” slur while claiming that his failed campaign to sink Social Security   into the stock market at the height of the bubble will somehow make his think tank the go-to guys on the subject.

The Bush Library’s site offers more tantalizing hints of the unfolding magic:

“Central to the museum experience will be an understanding of the historic events that occurred during the Bush presidency and case studies of key decisions made by the President that promoted the fundamental governing ideals of freedom, opportunity, responsibility and compassion.“

So I guess that leaves out the torture explanation!

Coming Soon!  

The George W. Bush Presidential Library of the future promises it will explore “A Time Of Great Consequence,” and every day we learn a little more about the joy Bush stored up for us.

   

Today’s delight is a Boston Globe report that while Bush was frustrated in his mad dream of sinking your Social Security money into the stock market, he did manage to destroy one big pile of cash.

We now know that the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, the shaky entity standing behind your pension, bet the farm last year on the stock market. The losses are still coming in, just as a new round of pension plans collapse into the PBGC’s withered arms.

A Stretch 

The Houston Press’s Richard Connelly directs our gaze to the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library, where the Living Legend ex-president prepares to honor one of our nation’s heroes.

Bush is to present the super-swanky “McLane Leadership in Business Award” to the ever rugged Chuck Norris.

Just what contributions  Mr. Norris made to commerce is unclear in the press release, but he has recently floated his possible candidacy for “President of Texas.”

And who needs an excuse to slap up an Invasion USA poster, with the chopper-menaced* Capitol Dome! *Not seen in actual film!

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Cool Place?               

The George W. Bush Presidential Library home-to-be at Southern Methodist University sees the facility as a boon to fund raising and prestige boosting, and of course removing the stain of JFK’s assassination.].

But it may not help on another front: SMU has always had a reputation as a comfortable place for the comfortable, and now the SMU Daily Campus reports the university has gotten steadily whiter over the last decade.

“Enrollment of black students declined by more than 40 percent. Hispanic enrollment fell by 20 percent.”