Bush Using Federal Funds To Secure Dallas Home

The Dallas Morning News reports that President Bush is planning to install a gate limiting public access to his house -- on a public street. Federal money would be used to pay for the gate.

Just like his father, President George W. Bush will return to Texas when he leaves office.

And just like his father, he wants a gate to be installed along a public street to limit access to his neighborhood.

Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm confirmed Monday that the younger Bush is seeking to have a gate placed somewhere along the entrance to streets leading to his future Preston Hollow address.

Bush's new community has a history of controversial exclusivity. Raw Story reported that the neighborhood of Preston Hollow did not allow non-white residents until 2000.

When Bush announced that he was moving to Preston Hollow, one of his new neighbors said she was "afraid ... the whole neighborhood is going to be a target."

The Hill reported Tuesday that Bush and his family had begun packing their belongings for the move out of the White House.

Via ThinkProgress.

Comments

[PamelaH1227]

A recap.... She signs million $$$$ deal.. We know h'es cleaned up on the oil... DUH
He leaves the country in destruction & now wants the taxpayers to buy him a fence!

W you need to go kick some more cow sh_t...

[dashboard]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwnqqj5Q1BU

[JamieJay]

Bush will be the first former president to not have Secret Service Protection for life, due to a law passed by Congress in the 1990's (before 9/11). Congress did this to lower the cost of protecting former presidents. He will be the first former president who will only have protection for 10 years. This law really needs to be changed.

[clamperken]

The only gate Bush needs to be behind is the gate on a federal prison.

[rabiddog6708]

From NBC's Mark Murray
A "Then and Now" to show what the United States looked like when Bush was entering office and what it looks like now as he's leaving.

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
Then: 4.2% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2001)
Now: 6.7% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2008)

DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE
Then: 10,587 (close of Friday, Jan. 19, 2001)
Now: 9,015 (close of Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009)

BUSH FAVORABILITY RATING
Then: 50% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 31% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CHENEY FAVORABILITY RATING
Then: 49% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 21% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CONGRESS APPROVAL RATING
Then: 48% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 21% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

SATISFIED WITH THE NATION'S DIRECTION
Then: 45% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 26% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CONSUMER CONFIDENCE (1985=100)
Then: 115.7 (Conference Board, January 2001)
Now: 38.0, which is an all-time low (Conference Board, December 2008)

FAMILIES LIVING IN POVERTY
Then: 6.4 million (Census numbers for 2000)
Now: 7.6 million (Census numbers for 2007 -- most recent numbers available)

AMERICANS WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE
Then: 39.8 million (Census numbers for 2000)
Now: 45.7 million (Census numbers for 2007 -- most recent available)

U.S. BUDGET
Then: +236.2 billion (2000, Congressional Budget Office)
Now: -$1.2 trillion (projected figure for 2009, Congressional Budget Office)

[Durango]

The cost of gasoline in our tourist inflated town was a high $1.58/gallon on Jan. 20, 2001.

It will be somewhere in that neighborhood on Jan. 20, 2009.

One would hope the Bush presidency was just a nightmare. But the effects will linger for a generation or more.

[sheaftosser]

If we have to buy the little pr*ck a gate to get rid of him, I'm willing. Good riddance to bad garbage.

[ramal]

At U.S. Taxpayer expense no less? Does anyone remember the firestorm from Repugs and the rightwing media over security measures funded by the Federal Government to protect the Clintons when he left office? He should be paying for any fence out of his own pocket. So much for the "ownership society."

[truman6568]

Hey George....can I help you pack? Good riddance and don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

[isis]

He looks horrible in that photo as he deserves to look after all he has taken from us. And really how can you deny evolution after looking at that animal gaze?

[JulieCarol]

Yeah, he better get a BIG gate and a moat! He won't have Secret Service protection any more.

Can't that SOB buy his own gate?

[Marmann]

Hey, if he'll agree to leave sooner, I'll chip in for a ceiling fan!

[AngryCitizen]

Didn't laura just sign an $8 million dollar book deal??????

[Telemachus]

That's $1 million per reader.

[Brightlight]

Does that include Barney?

[dpiyjrtmfr]

Ha! Good one! You know W ain't gonna be readin no durn books! Although we probably will have to suffer through him inflicting several more of his masterpieces on the world.

[Bitsko]

The kingdoms of Experience
In the precious wind they rot
While paupers change possessions
Each one wishing for what the other has got
And the princess and the prince
Discuss what's real and what is not
It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden

--Bob Dylan

[Telemachus]

Straitjacket available upon request.

[BlueZoo]

Good ol' Republicans...entitlement crazy! A millionaire and he can't afford a damned gate?