Keeping His Own Counsel  

Karl Rove is finally answering some questions before a Congressional committee, but his ex boss continues to dodge testifying in  a dispute over land bought for the George W. Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University.

SMU bought out condo owners on land originally intended for the Library, and some former owners claim they would have gotten more for their property had they known the Bush Library loomed.

Once Happy Homes 

The University claims they bought the land just cuz, that the Library happened along later, and anyway the Bush site has moved north of the disputed property.  The former owners are curious what SMU told Bush and when, but the Dallas retiree says he shouldn’t be vexed with such petty litigation.

Bush’s relationship to SMU isn’t recent or distant.  They worked him for the Library throughout his administration, and the land was purchased $35 million donated by Roy Hunt.  Hunt was also a major Bush campaign donor and intelligence board appointee, and acquired dubious oil leases in Iraq in the waning days of the Bush era.

Roosevelt Gone Aground  

The dream of a Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library on an Oyster Bay, Long Island appears dead.  Plans fluctuated between building on a flood plain,  or above a tidal pool, and they never had any “Papers” for the “Library,” but they blame the economy’s collapse.

Or maybe it was all just a mad dream.

For My Next Trick, I Disappear! 

More than a year ago, a local resident tried to pin down the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s James Bruns on how it planned to pay for the estimated $120 million library. co

“Mike Giardina asked, “How much money does the TRA have in the bank?”Mr. Bruns said they have pledges of $1 million.

Mr. Giardina: “And in the bank?”

Mr. Bruns, “I’m not going to divulge that.“

Mr. Gardina: “You have zero. You have no website. Come on.”

Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind     

  

The recent Dallas Morning News warning of the George W. Bush Presidential Library‘s will to obscurity has been proven in life!

The Scourge of Baghdad, legendary Washington Post  defense reporter Thomas Ricks was rightly appalled  and amused at a New York Times report that the living monsters producing FOX’S “24”series are now touting their carbon-neutralness.

” This show should be relegated to an exhibit at the George W. Bush Presidential Library, perhaps in the discussion of whether you can win a war for your values by undermining them.“

The Foreign Policy Blog comment’s snap and verve are somewhat undermined by Ricks linking to one of the joke Bush Library sites which tower above the real one in Google searches.

Alien Encounters 

From Larry W. Bryant’s UFOview comes word of a snub to America’s Tinfoil-Hatted Community.  The Eisenhower Presidential library has blown off a FOIA request based on an anonymous caller to a UFO radio show. The caller claimed to have seen film of Ike viewing alien bodies, sometime or another, someplace or another.

Rock solid!   

Higher Profiling 

Former President Bush is showing a little ankle, dropping by a political science class at the future home of his Presidential Library – Southern Methodist University                                                                                                       

Country First?   

Bush’s first hired speech will be to foreigners, albeit in semi-American Canada.

The ex-president  travels to exotic Calgary, Alberta March 17th in what is threatened to be the first of ten speeches this year. Bush crony, Bush Library director  and ex-Commerce Secretary Don Evans warns Bush “has to earn a living,” despite his pension, Bush his ‘n her book deals and the remains of his dubious baseball fortune, so we can look forward to more of this.

We must brace ourselves for the inevitable Moonie-funded-through-exotic-passthroughs events which are sure to come.