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Old 10-07-2003, 07:20 PM   #16 (permalink)
ctembreull
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Re: Republican Economics Reviewed Herein (among other things)

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Originally posted by Astrocloud
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/mov...es/002336.html

Where Are the Grownups in the Republican Party?
Ok, for the record, then.

I found it highly amusing back during the campaign of 2000 when George W. Bush claimed that his victory would put the grownups back in charge of the White House. After all, this is a man who was born into wealth and privilege. He was admitted to Yale on his father's merits, not his own. He did not distinguish himself there; later accounts indicate that his specialties were beer and cheerleading. After college, a friend of his father's got him out of the draft and into the Texas Air National Guard ahead of many other and more qualified candidates (Bush scored a 25 on his aptitude test, the lowest possible non-failing score). He left the T-ANG before his discharge, making him officially AWOL. He was never prosecuted. He went into business in a series of failed oil ventures; each was either bought out by wealthy and well-connected friends of the family. Bush always received a golden parachute from these failed ventures. He then purchased a minority interest in the Texas Rangers - and used his family's political connections to get the land upon which The Ballpark at Arlington now stands out of the hands of its rightful owners. The franchise did well, and Bush left the team for politics with much more money than he had when he started.

This is not a grownup, ladies and gentlemen. This is a spoiled, wayward child who just happens to have his finger on the Nuclear Button. As far as the real grownups in the Republican Party (I presume there are at least a few), they're either not willing or not able to exercise any sort of control or restraint upon their Commander in Chief.

Which means, IMHO, it's up to us Democrats to do it for them.
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