Bush family less integrity than Nicky Scarfo and sons

[HiloBoy]

Brewton, Pete. The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush. New York: S.P.I. Books (Shapolsky Publishers), 1992. 418 pages.

Beginning in 1990, an assortment of articles from the Houston Post found their way into NameBase. In them Pete Brewton described organized crime and CIA connections surrounding the major players in the savings and loan failures, primarily in Texas but also in Florida and California. Brewton met with resistance, first from the Post's lawyers and then, when he expanded the series into a manuscript, from Simon & Schuster. Brewton quit the Post, enrolled in law school, and took his manuscript elsewhere.

The Post series and book are loaded with names of Texas-size wheeler- dealers, but it's circumstantial. There's a little bit on Lloyd Bentsen and sons, a bit more on George Bush and sons, even more on slick operators who appear to be CIA assets, and more still on Mafia-connected deals that involve property flipping as a cover for fraudulent loan schemes using federally-insured funds (your tax dollars). The names come from the records of state and federal agencies and courts, as well as newspaper clippings. The book's title is misleading, as the book itself leaves the impression that this is all business-as-usual for greedy Texans. But unless NAFTA returns the territory to Mexico, where certain Banana Republic of Texas businesses might have more room to deal, it's worthwhile trying to track these fun folks. In that sense, Brewton's contribution is significant.
ISBN 1-56171-203-5

 

[insuranceguy]

All of the left wing lies and propaganda did NOT work before the election so saying the same things after the election is a waste of time.

Bush is a man with the utmost morals and has put our country ahead of his political career time and time again.

Bush has done a FANTASTIC job in the last 3 elections and has soundly defeated the democrats each time.

As long as the democrats keep up with their Bush bashing, they will continue to lose election after election.

California is a shining example of what happens when liberal democrats have the power for any extended period of time.

 

[HiloBoy]

Bush is a loser that was voted in by losers like you. President Lush, Dumsfeld and Painey have no morals they are draft dodgers.

 

[insuranceguy]

The democratic party, by definition, is the party of frauds, followers and failures.

Here is a partial list of loyal democratic supporters:

1. Welfare receipents
2. Criminals
3. Gays/Lesbians
4. Trial Lawyers
5. Unions
6. Dead people
7. African-Americans (Coloreds) Just for you Hilo Boy!!!

Republicans just assume democrats stick to washing our cars, cleaning our toilets and busing our tables.

Democrats do nothing but LEECH off of republicans and can not survive without governmental assistance.

The last group on Earth that Bush should be looking out for is African Americans since they have always been the strongest supporters of democrats.

 

[lander]

Go figure -- another Red, another racist.

Shocking.

 

[insuranceguy]

The reds have all the power as they control all facets of our government while the blues are COMPLETELY POWERLESS.

Just keep on whining and maybe things will change, LOL.

 

[Ego74]

this guy is starting to get on my damned nerves

 

[insuranceguy]

Ego74:

Not sure if you were referring to me or Lander.

Based on your Ted Kennedy logo, I assume you were referring to that moron lander.

 

[docmercer--banned]

Insurance Guy:

Pretty funny comment: "Bush is a man with the utmost morals"

I've said it time and time again: BUSH IS NOTHING BUT A WOLFE IN SHEEPS CLOTHING

ONLY President with a criminal background .. a man who touts the Bible constantly and his relationship with the Lord and has obviously never actually read the Bible based on his actions

Are we talking the same "Moral" man who spread lies about Anne Richards in the 94 Gov race in TX? the same man who spread lies about John McCain in the 2000 SC primary? the same man who tried to convince one and all in STL that "I cant actually think of one thing I've done wrong in term #1 .."

I feel sorry for folks like yourself who have bought into the falsified image of perhaps the most corrupt Politician in the history of this country

 

[docmercer--banned]

Ego:

Hilo is getting on your nerves cause the truth usually hurts ...

Hilo .. good job

Bush is a criminal and the whole family makes the Kennedys look like they should be serving in the vatican

 

[insuranceguy]

Doc Mercer:

What criminal background are you referring to?

Just because a liberal democrat like yourself says Bush is a wolfe(?) certainly doesn't make it true.

I suppose you had the highest respect for Clinton and his integrity, LOL.

Bush needed to tout religion as he DESPARATELY needed the support of the religious right in this election and they certainly came through. Bush's sudden devotion to religion was an incredibly smart political move and it paid off big time.

The most corruption politican in history? You are living in a Bush hating fantasyland and its liberals like yourself, Michael Moore, etc that brought out the religious right in droves.

Your Bush bashing was the primary reason for Kerry's defeat and you're too stupid to even realize it.

Since you're talking about the Kennedy's, I only wish you were in the passenger seat when Ted Kennedy took that stroll down the Chipaquaddick.

 

[JudgeWapner]

Insurance guy, all I can say is you have found your perfect niche in the insurance industry.

 

[Ego74]

Ego:

Hilo is getting on your nerves cause the truth usually hurts ...

Hilo .. good job

Bush is a criminal and the whole family makes the Kennedys look like they should be serving in the vatican

hey Doc, i WASN'T talking about Hilo. I was talking about the new guy. Hilo doesn't bother me, what bothers me is when a guy who is supposed to be on MY SIDE of the aisle acts as hateful and ignorant as some of the guys on the far left. Sorry to disappoint you Doc.

 

[insuranceguy]

Ego:

I have learned quite a long time ago that it is IMPOSSIBLE to have a reasonable conversation with left wing fanatics.

Instead of acting reasonable to them and watching them come back with their hate and ignorance, I simply beat them to the punch.

Think about all the debates you have had with those on the left. I would bet that 99% of those debates end with insults coming from the other side.

You can try to appease them all you want, but I prefer to stick it right back to them.

 

[docmercer--banned]

Insurance guy ... lets introduce "Mr Morals" ..

Bush is now the first person to be elected president after being convicted of a crime ...

In another evasion, Bush decided to serve jury duty in 1996, during his first year as governor. On his questionairre, he simply left blank the questions about prior arrests and trials. Then he found himself on a trial for drunk driving, where every juror is eventually asked about prior convictions for drunk driving. The night before the trial, Bush's lawyer asked the defense attorney to dismiss him, because "it would be improper for a governor to sit on a criminal case in which he could later be asked to grant clemency." It's a silly argument, because that problem exists with any criminal trial and Bush had already decided to serve on a jury, but the defense attorney obliged and excused him before direct questioning of jurors began.


Bush now justifies covering up his arrest "to be a good role model for his daughters." How does he figure that? Lying to cover up your crimes is not what I call being a good role model. Taking responsibility for your actions, admitting fault honestly and warning people of the consequences you suffered, THAT would be a good example. Bush had several other drunken incidents, as well. In December, 1972, Bush challenged his dad (the ex-president) to a fist fight, during an argument about Bush's drunk driving. He had taken his little brother out drinking, and ran over a neighbor's garbage cans on the way home. Bush's atypical public service job, working with inner city Houston kids, appears to have been an unofficial community service stint set up by Bush, Sr. Apparently the governor didn't learn his lesson, because his drunk driving conviction occured almost four years later.

In another incident, he started screaming obscenities at a Wall Street Journal reporter, just because that reporter predicted that Bush's father would not be the 1988 Republican nominee. The reporter obviously was wrong, but a drunken Bush Jr. walked up to him at a restaurant and started yelling "You ******* son of a *****. I won't forget what you said and you're going to pay a price for it." There is evidence that Bush has more to hide involving his Texas driving record. Soon after he became governor, he had a new driver's license issued with the unusual ID number of "000000005", an action that destroyed the records of his previous license. His staff could only say, weakly, that this was done for "security reasons" but there is no record of any previous Texas governor having done so. Now we have at least of hint of why Bush wanted his records obscured, and a dark foreboding that more might be lurking, still covered up.




More recently, Bush's performance during the 2000 South Carolina primary shows that he received the worst trait common to the famous Bush family -- a vicious competitiveness that shows no compunction about dirty tricks (such as the phone calls by his surrogates calling McCain, of all people, "the *** candidate") and utterly shameless flipflops (like Bush Sr.'s "read my lips, no new taxes", and Junior's very public refusal to meet with the gay Log Cabin Republicans group until right before the California primary, when he claimed he was fine with them all along. Not to mention him suddenly becoming "a reformer" after he got shellacked in the New Hampshire primary.)

AND THE REST GOES ON AND ON AND ON WITH BUSH ...

 

[docmercer--banned]

Three independent sources close to the Bush family report that Governor Bush was arrested in 1972 for cocaine possession, and taken to Harris County Jail, but avoided jail or formal charges through an informal diversion plan involving community service with Project P.U.L.L., an inner city Houston program for troubled youths at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Houston's dirt-poor Third Ward. (In another new book, reporter Bill Minutaglio, writes that the year of community service was arranged by the Governor's father, ex-president Bush, after he caught Bush Jr. driving drunk.)


Sources told MSNBC.com’s Jeannette Walls that Bush associates had been worried for several years about his arrest record and had hoped that because it was in Maine, and not Texas, it wouldn’t surface. The sources said Bush took one step to keep it under wraps in March 1995, when his driver’s license number was changed. Walls first reported this in August 1999 in The Scoop, an MSNBC.com column. At the time, the sources told Walls that Bush got his license number changed because he was worried about an arrest record surfacing. “He has an arrest record that has to do with drinking,” a source said then. “He’s worried it will come out, but his handlers keep assuring him it won’t.”

Also in August 1999, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles told MSNBC.com that changing one’s driver’s license number was “highly unusual” and that it is done only when the holder of the license can prove that someone is using the license number for illegal activities. Repeated calls to Bush’s camp back at the time were unanswered, until a spokeswoman for Bush said the motor vehicle agency would have an additional comment. An agency spokesman then called MSNBC and said Bush’s license number was changed for “security measures.” He declined to comment further. In light of Bush’s admission of his arrest, a second source said Friday: “Bush’s people didn’t want to comment [in August 1999] because they didn’t want to be on the record lying or misleading anyone about this.”

 

[insuranceguy]

Its pretty sad that you refer to Bush as a criminal because he made the mistake of drinking and driving who knows how many years ago.

Yet, Clinton gets blown by an intern young enough to be his daughter shortly after he bashes executives for having relationships with their subordinates.

All of the Bush bashing is 100% about politics and none of it means anything.

What matters are results and Bush and the republicans beat the crap out of the democrats once again this election.

The republicans are in complete control and their majorites in congress keep on widening. You can bash Bush all you want but he has done wonders for the republican party and has single handedly destroyed the moral of the democratic party at the same time.

I am thrilled with the way things are going on the political front. How about you?

 

[lander]

Ok, coke use and drinking and driving = ok.

What if a black guys does drugs -- should he be locked up?

 

[Ego74]

Ego:

I have learned quite a long time ago that it is IMPOSSIBLE to have a reasonable conversation with left wing fanatics.

Instead of acting reasonable to them and watching them come back with their hate and ignorance, I simply beat them to the punch.

Think about all the debates you have had with those on the left. I would bet that 99% of those debates end with insults coming from the other side.

You can try to appease them all you want, but I prefer to stick it right back to them.

i have debated quite a few on the left. Believe me, face to face, it doesn't go the namecalling route. If i make a valid point, and they come back with hate and ignorance, as you say, it's a reflection on them, not me, imo.
If it's obvious you're not gonna change someones mind about an issue, it's easier to walk away. Countering hate with hate is a no win.
I don't have a revengful nature, so I'm not into "sticking it right back at people". It disappoints me when guys on my side resort to that. It makes Lander look like they're right when they say we're ignorant, because it is ignorant. When i push someone's buttons, like i've been known to do, it's good natured. I may take a funny jab at someone (for example, Doc), but I respect the guy for his opinions (yes, he does have a good opinion here and there), and move on. I'm not gonna change his views, and he's not gonna change mine, but I'm not gonna go after him verbally.

 

[docmercer--banned]

Clinton admitted on Larry King Live this past summer he made a mistake and has spent a lot of time getting help ...

I NEVER SUPPORTED what Clinton did ... only difference is we have over 1300 of Americas finest dead because we have one lousy ass Commander in Chief

Bush disgusts me for his touting of his relationship with God ... I am Catholic and this man has never read the Bible based on his actions

This country is in serious troubles .... Bush has sold his falsified image thru Rove and what is funny is I live in Bush country and the same folks who said Clinton had higher standards to meet since he was President are now giving Bush a pass on every issue

I am Thankful I do not have Children ... within 10 yrs this country will be a 3rd world country with upcoming world events and the internal cancer that is spreading with modern day Rome