Bush Trimming Tips From Ferrerman

Good Gawd Amighty, Jeb Bush is thinking about running for president. Sheesh. In 2000, Dick Cheney sat down the Bush brothers, George and Jeb, and asked them if either one of them would invade Iraq, no questions asked. George answered "yup" and, the rest is history. 

Now, maybe Jeb is willing to answer in the affirmative about a country to be named later? Hopefully it doesn't get that far. 

Dick Cheney and his pals at Haliburton had plans before the election for war with Iraq. They seemed to know they would get in the White House. As you might recall, it was very close. The US Supreme Court had to make the call. Then, they had to have a reason for war. The best they could come up with was blaming Saddam Hussein for some Saudis flying planes in the Twin Towers in New York City. Pretty thin thread there so they added the weapons of mass destruction they knew he had, because the US had given them to him. Add in the fact that Saddamn was the egotistical dictator of a sovereign nation and that he didn't like anyone telling him what to do, and you had the recipe for war because- you know- 9/11.... and the rest was the shock and awe of history.

All that alone should be enough to discount any Bush from from contention, even running back Reggie Bush, who is no relation. The brand recognition should be such that consumers hear "bush" and immediately shave and/or wax their genitalia which, if you've seen porn lately, they have done. 

But, even without all that, a third Bush as president? What is this, a monarchy? Even if the first two had been good (they weren't) it's the thought that counts. And it's a thought that goes against the grain of America, Because Daddy Bush was Reagan's Vice President, you'd have to go back to 1972 to find a winning republican ticket without a Bush on it. Maybe that's why Jeb's running? He's their good luck charm? 

Mind you- full disclosure- I'm not thrilled about Hillary Clinton's possible run either even though her husband was a pretty good president. I like her. She'd probably be a pretty good president too. It's just that matching her against a Bush kinda highlights the royalty aspect of it all that this country is not supposed to have. If it were to come down to those two being the nominees of their party, then we are assured of either having a third Bush or a second Clinton as POTUS. That would mean that, aside from two Obama terms, we've either had a Bush or a Clinton as president since 1988. Is that the best this country can do? 

There are 310 million people in this country. There are more than two families capable of fielding presidential teams. I'm not looking at you, Romney's. Don't get any ideas.  

And to be Ferrer, I don't know that Cheney and company sat Jeb down with George. I may have taken dramatic license there. They might not have asked Jeb at all, probably knowing he wouldn't be party to a scheme like that. Well, I don't think he would but, I don't know. Jeb was a governor of Florida who could give press conferences in English and Spanish. George could give then in fractured English and gibberish. Dick Cheney put himself in charge of star-searching for a VP contender and, after an exhaustive search, decided he himself should be a heartbeat away from the presidency. How the fuck does any of this happen in the greatest country in the world?  

If it does come down to those two against each other, America as we used to pretend it was, is gone, the final screw in the coffin.