Bush Family Table Talk

"America's Grandma," Barbara Bush, is at it again. No, she is no longer advising us that half-drowned African American's who survived Katrina should be comfortable in their distress because they are accustomed to living in squalor, today she is offering up advice on how to raise our children - based I suppose upon her great success in raising hers. She is a public advocate for gathering one's family around the dinner table for conversation, assuring us in her new TV ad that this very act of togetherness will prevent our children from becoming alcoholics and drug abusers. This, from the mother of George and Neil and Jeb??? The first being a former drug abuser and alcoholic, the second a principal figure in an S&L banking scandal that cost the country billions, and the third complicit in the stealing of elections for his brother, which nearly cost the country the country. Can there be no end to Republican Chutzpah?

Early last week we were told by the very people who abused decorated Vietnam hero Max Cleland and John Kerry that the MoveOn ad about the packaged testimony of General Petraeus was an assault upon our military, and now we are to take the advice of the mother of one of America's most dysfunctional families. Momma Bush I fear has more in common with Ma Barker, the notorious mother of a criminal gang of the 1930's than she does with Whistler's mother, or your mother, or mine, assuming that our mother's did not raise a criminal cabal.

Can you imagine that table talk in the family manse in Maine? "Georgie, little Herbie down the street stuck out his tongue at Daddy, and I think he stole our newspaper from the front lawn last week, so I want you to go over to his house and set it on fire. After you've finished with your shock and awe assignment I want you to occupy his property indefinitely. We can't be safe in our lovely American home until you do it - after all, he might do more than make faces at Daddy in the future. He may come over here and pee on the rose bushes."

There had to be a lot of fine talk at that particular dinner table. It never ceases to amaze me that Barbara and Laura, those public advocates for education and reading always confuse literacy with Republican morality, which includes fear mongering, accusations of treason, innuendo about the opponent's patriotism, and creatively vicious name calling. "Now how do you spell traitor, Georgie? A hint. There are two t's in it, not in the middle but at the beginning and at the end"

I would rather take advice from an illiterate mother in the Brazilian rain forest who struggles to keep her family alive than from such women. Mother's of America unite. You don't need your kids sitting daily at the dinner table for them to grow into good men and women. Indeed most mothers are working mothers and they are more concerned about feeding their kids than seating them at family discussions - a lovely thing, and a luxury more easily afforded by two parent households, but alas, almost gone with the fifties. Forced to sit at the dinner table they will only be playing with some computer game on their laps as you lecture them.

Decent kids grow up by example, your example of decency and generosity, not by hectoring or lecturing. And they grow up to be good citizens if given the chance of good public health care and good public schools, something you don't talk about much in your world. Why, why, that would be "socialized opportunity!" I can only imagine the example set by Ma Bush on those long ago Maine summers, as they sat around that dinner table. All that talk about "us" and "them." And all of us "thems" - which means most of America - have grievously suffered from it.

Comments

[glesslib]

The saddest thing about this dynasty is that Jeb is supposed to be the smart one. Can you imagine the average IQ of the entire bunch?

I personally believe that Neil and Marvin are being held at Gitmo until the Bush presidency is over. You never hear of them or see the family together. Sort of like a latter day Reagan family.... all the embarassements tidily out of sight.

[CosmicSurfer]

"the 'Bad Seed' Thrice"? Try quads....You forgot the 4th son (of course they try to keep him out of the limelight) Her son Marvin, the man with brother Neilk were involved in that little Port scandal - the attempt to turn the security of the Ports over to a Dubai Corporation (Dubai....now the Corporation of Dubai and new home/corporate headquarters for Halliburton)....and was on the board of Securacom .....A Kuwaiti/American Compnay that provided "Security" for the World Trade Center -he resigned from the board right before the attack....
Yep, there is a 4th boy living up to the reputation of the rest of the boys and girls named BUSH...Scary, huh?

[fightorleave2]

WOW!! Ma Barker! Loved every word.

[pangardenguru]

That's delicious isn't it? Barbara Bush on advice on raising children???? Can anything be more absurd than that!

[researcher]

george sr raised a sociopath that has to hurt. having richs does not allow someone to skip the trials and tribulations of life.

Neil a complete failure in business and a son that started a war that can best be described as a fiasco.

god that sounded like a sermon.

next thing I will be saying that my black book contains all and is all truths.

want to know how a sociopath got into office?

get a taste of red state old south America. Visit jena and ask the white folks about racism. they will state there is no racism here and actually believe it.

oh really convicting blacks for attempted murder and the boy they beat up was out of the hospital in two hours and attended a school function that night.

[litebug]

I have a bumper sticker that says "There Is Dirt Under Every Bush". I think that nicely sums up generations of the foul Bush Crime Family. I too have often wondered just how the Bush family values get passed along and imagined a dinner table scenario similar to the one described. Anyone unfamiliar with the relationship of the Bush family to Nazi Germany and the plot to kill FDR should educate themselves. This family is no fan of democracy and has proven that over and over again. We've seen 3 generations of Fascists in that family.
The world would be so much better off without the offerings of Barbara's vile, fetid womb. For starters, hundreds of thousands of people (and probably more), whom they have killed through outright aggression and non-benign neglect, would be alive today. Millions of others (us taxpayers!) would not have had to financially support their wars, unbridled greed, crooked schemes, cronyism and war profiteering.
That such an unaccomplished harridan should be giving advice on child-rearing, or anything else for that matter, is beyond belief, and manages to be at once both disgusting and hilarious. Anything she'd have to say would be pure HOG SNOT! (kudos to Mike Malloy for that expression)

[larryfishkorn]

I can't believe all the harsh words aimed at Barbara Bush. That's no way to talk about the father of our country!

[lackeylocal]

No one has mentioned son # 4 - Marvin P. Bush - he was on the board of directors of the Sterling, Virginia company Stratesec (formerly known as Securacom) which had contracts to provide security for United Airlines, Dulles International Airport, and the World Trade Center. The Securacom/Stratesec company was publicly traded and backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corporation. In 1996, Marvin Bush had 53,000 shares in the company's stock he bought at 52 cents a share. In 1997 the stock sold for $8.50 a share. Her worked with Larry Silverstein at the WTC buildings and guess who made PROFITS after 9/11.

Somehow the Bush Crime Family always comes out smelling like a rose (shit)~!~!~!

[zbig]

Barbara Bush, you're a lousy mother!

[truebluefan]

I couldn't agree more with this blogger. Remember when Ma Bush said in so many words when asked about all the deaths in Iraq: "Why would I bother my pretty little mind with that!" check me out she really did say those words or very close to them. Also I have a new bumper sticker for you. "Somewhere in a smnll town in Texas, there is an idiot missing." Good luck from truebluefan.

[maxy]

From these comments I am still reading Hocus Pocus. People are still naive enough to vote for another bad republican or democrat. Politics is usually handed down from the generations. My mother and father knew enough to keep me from being a dam fool. There is no excuse for what has happened and for this administration to be in existence. Not unless you are 16 and no memory or knowledge of the 80's and 90's. Band me but I believe it is crazy white people.

[givemycountryback]

I hope this is some kind of joke. It is inconceivable that that old shrew could say anything about raising children. Not one of hers has a shred of decency or morality. Let alone brains. And that stupid Laura. She has to be on some pretty strong drugs to put up with idiot husband and that old shrew for MIL. Id sooner die. They remind me of the Clampetts from Beverly Hillbillies, but that is an insult to the Clampetts.

[nunzia]

In the Bush family there is no end to the hubris.

[nutty4tahoe]

What's unbelievable is that the voters of this country have elected three Bushes to public office. For the rest of my life I will never be able to figure that one out. I hear Jeb's son is in Texas being groomed (by Karl Rove most likely) as the next "Great White Bush Hope".

[nutty4tahoe]

I'd rather take mothering advice from OJ's mother! Both have sociopaths for sons. Come to think of it, the whole Bush family is sociopathic. Someone, QUICK!, better neuter Jenna before she produces more demon Bush spawn!