Trend spotter deconstructs the House of Bush

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/155269_joel06.html

By JOEL CONNELLY
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST

In his best seller "The Selling of the President 1968," author Joe McGinniss poked fun at a youthful, nerdy, number-crunching Richard Nixon aide who predicted an emerging Republican majority in the United States.

The laugh was on McGinniss. The Age of Aquarius fizzled, and Kevin Phillips was correct in his forecast that political power would take a right turn and flow to the South and Sun Belt.

... Phillips is out with a provocative book about a family of blue bloods and its retainers who have accomplished a restoration and are now asking voters for unchecked power.

It is called "American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush" (Viking Press, $25.95).

As Phillips explained on the phone, there is "an enormous similarity" between the United States under Bush II and the country that was beginning to throw off 35 years of Democratic domination in 1968.

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His comments on the nature of the bush regime are devastating. He correctly points out that it isn't just the bushes, it's the Harrimans and all the other inbred bluebloods of the ringknocking establishment that are undermining American government.

My next Buzzflash premium for sure.

Hardly light bedtime reading, either, I'll bet.

Who could fall asleep peacefully after reading what they've done and who they are? :scared:

Unpopular war, race to the moon, disaffected youth... yep, sure does sound like the 60's...

Where's my lava lamp?