>>Sigh<<
Another day, more calls for impeachment...I'm beginning to wonder if Kossacks have any idea just how unbelievably wealthy and powerful the Bush family is.
They stay under the radar -- you won't catch them on a Forbes list -- and that's by design. They know a good deal of their political power comes from posing as just "ordinary folks". (Bush 41's defeat in '92 woke them up to that; No more of that Andover yuppie crap -- they're retroactively all good ol' southerners including John Ellis Bush aka "Jeb")
Great grandpa Sam Bush consulted Hoover, and was deep in the weapons business. Grandpa Prescott did business with Germany after FDR made it illegal. His punishment? Nothing.
Daddy flubs the exact date he began working for the CIA, but we know it was probably early enough that he may well have been involved in the murders of JFK, Bobby, and MLK. Ships with the name of his wife and his oil company were present at the Bay of Pigs invasion. The father of John Hinckley, Ronald Reagan's would be assassin was a Naval admiral and good friends with Bush. Thanks to him, Bush almost became president much sooner than he actually did. "Poppy" was in deep with Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega, until they became enemies and had to be taken down. He was undoubtedly involved in the arms-for-hostages deal in the 80s.
This family is heavily entrenched in the Military-Industrial Complex (Halliburton), Oil (The Saudis), banking (Neil and the S&L's), foreign governments (CIA), and now they have their claws in the World Bank (Wolfowitz). They most likely have off-the-record billions in Zurich and the Cayman Islands.
It may be a stretch, but there are few in history of this country (or the world even) that have ever possessed the kind of power the Bush family does. The Kennedys, The Gettys, the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers....they all pale in comparison. Maybe Andrew Carnegie or Henry Ford could stand as a comparison in their heyday. But even the Bill Gates of the world simply don't compare.
These people RUN THE COUNTRY. They are NOT going to let their boy get censured OR impeached. And lets not even talk about trying him for treason. When January 21st comes around GWBush is going to get on a jet, go to Crawford and get as wasted as he can, every day until the end of his miserable life. He will go down as one of the worst presidents, he will NOT be sought out for foreign policy advice a la Kissinger and Nixon, and he could care less. GWB has done his job. The munitions companies were rewarded, the oil companies got theirs as did the other big corporate donors, and the conservative right was fortified.
So let's kind of stop with this "We'll get him" talk. Yeah, its motivational and all, but if you really think that this family is going to let little things like betraying the Constitution of the United States get to them, you are seriously warped.