by Mickey Walker
June 20, 2010

Former Governor Mike Huckabee has been living it up on Fox News, playing the guitar, attacking Obama (fair and balanced news, of course), and playing “Ain’t Obama awful” with notable Neocons like Laura Bush.  He began a recent interview by asking the former First Lady about her husband and if it upset her that so many people were blaming him for everything wrong in America.  Of course Laura made light of it, saying that George gets blamed for everything and they had come to expect it long ago.  It was a humorous irritation she seemed to suggest.  So I thought it over, and all that was hard to ponder.

First, I had to believe that her husband George W. Bush, for the two terms he served as president, was totally responsible for most of the maladies that came to weigh heavy upon Americans to this very day, long after he left Washington.  For instance, Bush made it official that America would torture to gain information to protect us from being attacked by terrorists.  The world saw Bush break the Geneva Convention accord that we and all the major nations of the world signed as our sacred vow that we would not torture prisoners.  We also came to know that Bush would wiretap our phones without a court order whether he had justifiable cause or not. The FISA court, set up for that purpose could, in George’s vernacular, go piss up a rope.  Our right to privacy was instant history under Bush.

Then there were his signing statements that altered the Constitution so that he alone could assume the title of Supreme Dictator, lawmaker, and Unitary Executive.  Bush negated the official duties of Congress to make and pass laws.  He affixed signing statements to perhaps 1,000 bills which negated many of the laws as written.  GAO refused to shell out money for the laws requiring funding because the GAO contended that Bush’ signing statements negated the laws.  And if they negated the laws, then Bush negated both the very existence of the House and the Senate.

He showed us that he could seal the minutes of the Energy Department meetings Ken Lay and Dick Cheney held in private and in complete secrecy.  If we, the people, in this free and formerly open democratic society called America didn’t like it, we could lump it.  Then George W Bush gave us an America without the right to habeas corpus for the first time in hundreds of years.  We no longer could challenge our accuser, the U.S. Government to tell us who our accusers were or what our crimes were.  We could be sent to rendering facilities to be water-boarded without a phone call to our loved ones, and without the right to a lawyer.

I really had to think that, Laura, poor dear, where were you when your husband committed all these crimes against a nation formerly governed under the laws of our very Constitution?  Where were you when the Bush No Child Left Behind Act turned into a program severely underfunded while you and your husband took credit for helping educate American kids (when there wasn’t even enough money for buses to take the kids to their underfunded schools)?  Of course you know that Obama, in his annual budget, year after year, did not provide for 1 billion dollars of funding for the NCLB Act when the required funding was known to be 10 billion!  No, that was not Obama’s fault.  It was your husband’s.

It has become hard for me to accept how little the American people remember.  It seems like most Americans were just so glad to see Bush get the hell out of Washington, that they did not care whether he was impeached or not for the wreck he made of America.  Most everyone forgot that Bush, to finance his wars of lies to attack Iraq, borrowed 4 Trillion dollars more than what the Treasury owed before he left office.  All the Neocons like Huckabee and the Bushes can see now is the borrowing that Obama is incurring to clean up the massive financial mess started by Bush.  The Tea Baggers did not exist when Bush was president even though he borrowed and spent 4 times more than Obama.  The protestors against our paying high taxes didn’t seem to mind when another president shamefully borrowed us into the fiscal toilet more than any other president, but let Obama take office and the Tea Baggers jumped up in a national rage to protest government spending.

Laura Bush just finished her new book, Huckabee told us.  Karl Rove wrote one, too, and Sarah Palin is starting her second one (with a little help from the same old ghost writer, it seems).  It is truly amazing how well these books have been selling when most of the information in any one of them is drivel and lies to put lipstick on the George W Bush pig image he spawned by screwing America while rewarding his corporate crony buddies who got to sell $500 hammers to Uncle Sam.  Glenn Beck, another avowed Neocon and Goebbels apprentice, has two best-sellers on bookstands as we speak.  But why are they best-sellers?  What messages that spew forth from these sources of opinions and unsubstantiated pages of trash could be of any possible use to the American people?  After all, aren’t the Neocons dedicated to drowning all federal social programs (and with them, the people who depend on Social Security and Medicare and welfare) in Grover Norquist’s bath tub?  Not one of these self-anointed Neocons believes in a fair or a minimum wage for workers.  Surely, Laura Bush does not think Obama worked hard against healthcare for all Americans, nor does she think Obama flew over the oil slick like her husband flew over the suffering in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, does she?  I mean, come on, Laura, isn’t George capable of owning up to his own stuff?  Aren’t you able to say that, yes, he should be accountable for his own misdeeds while in office?

Jenna Bush, daughter of Laura and George W Bush went to Paraguay to buy over 100,000 acres of land not too long ago.  It was kept quiet.  Some say that the purchase was a compliment to a 200,000 acre Paraguay land purchase that Jenna’s grandfather, Poppy Bush, made in 2005.  Such land, rich in natural gas and water aquifers seems the thing to do.

Jenna Bush buys land in Paraguay for her daddy

Poppy Bush’s own Carlyle Group with other notable members such as James Baker (who helped W in 2000 by stopping the Florida recount) have invested in the water and mineral rich regions of Paraguay, too.  Do they know something the rest of us don’t know?

US Marines sent to Paraguay on new US Base in Paraguay near Bush compound and land

What’s going on down in Paraguay?  The rich sources of fresh water there in a world about to go on water rationing, makes for a great investment, or so it seems.  Poppy Bush, as former Director of the CIA, gets to read daily intelligence reports with his morning coffee.  I have often wondered if that was not an unfair advantage to more common Americans in the world of investment and forecasting.  But, alas, it is real.

It seems that the Bush family has walked on the edge for generations.  Perhaps having a place of sanctuary like Paraguay for the Bushes is like buying an insurance policy.  Paraguay has no extradition policy.  Hmm.  Interesting.

Poppy Bush’s father, Prescott Bush, a senator who married into wealthy families (Bert Walker, Brown), through Fritz Thyssen, sold steel to Adolf Hitler during the early years of WWII.  FDR, in 1942, stopped Prescott Bush, one of the board members of Union Bank, from doing business with Hitler and the Third Reich.  Apparently Prescott Bush’s business dealings with Thyssen in selling steel for Hitler’s army buildups did not hurt him politically, though.  Prescott Bush was elected Senator from Connecticut.  And none of his funds gained through lucrative steel contracts with Hitler were confiscated.  That meant that George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush, had plenty of money to pay their way to Harvard and Yale and to join the Skull and Bones Society.  And each of them became president of the United States, too.  Imagine that.

What gives?  What is the meaning of the Bush family buying up land in South America?  Why was it necessary for Bush’s daughter, Jenna, to sign and finalize the last purchase papers of over 100 thousand acres in Paraguay on the Q.T., the hush-hush?  Is something about to happen that the rest of us need to know about?  Or is it just a another Bush business venture to make more money?

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