Has Dumbya avenged his grandfather, Prescott?

We all know Dumbya's grandfather Prescott Bush was punished by the United States government for doing business with Nazis and other fascists in the middle of a war.

America's First Family of Fascism™ has tried to deny it, they've tried to suppress the truth about it, but they've never gotten revenge for being held accountable for Prescott's crimes. The money paid to cover the fine was inheritance, dontcha know.

This shame has lived with the Bush family all these years and knowing that they could have been that much richer has not sat well with Prescott's progeny.

Pappy tried, but was too much of a wimp. Although his boy Reagan did bust the air traffic controller's union and placed that wreath on that Nazi grave. He did get a few things done, but it might not have been enough.

Jethro helped get Dumbya elected, but he hasn't done much after that to restore the wealth that America's First Family of Fascism™ lost in that small fine on Prescott.

Dumbya, on the other hand, has done quite a bit to make up for all that lost cash: he stole two elections, made torture American policy, sat motionless during an attack on American soil, watched idly by as an American city was destroyed, privatized the military, returned Iraq oil contracts back to American companies' hands and may finally destroy the last of America's manufacturing base and bust another union along the way?

With less than 40 days left in his occupation, has Dumbya been successful in avenging his fascist grandfather?

70 x 7 times worse than what they have subjected this planet to for the last century. :grr:

To quote Mike Malloy, "Have I mentioned today how much I hate these people?"

I'd rather visualize a scenario (also from Mike Malloy) where God rips their heads off and throws them down to Hell so the demons can play soccer with them. :evilgrin:

Prescott's treachery goes back to before his cuddling with the Third Reich. Prescott and a bunch of his corporatist buddies tried to overthrow FDR in 1934 in order to make Prescott the fascist dictator of the US.

They were stopped, and instead of hanging them, FDR let them go, because he needed their help in passing the New Deal.

However, they never went away and they never gave up their goal. They went underground during the war, but resurfaced quickly afterward and began a slow campaign to achieve their original plan. It was a long, slow process.

The mid-'60s massacre of progressives was the opening salvo of the final putsch. Nixon was taken down (the whole Watergate investigation was an inside job) because he was way too liberal for them (relations with China, EPA, affirmative action, Clean Air Act, etc.). They gained steam with the useful idiot Reagan and then Bush I. Clinton was an aberration, but they learned from their mistakes.

The coup of December 2000 was the beginning of the end -- and after eight years of corporatist dictatorship, they are as close to their goal as can be.

It's gotten so bad now, we are so far to the right, that Obama -- who is about 20 paces to the right of Richard Nixon -- is seen by the right as some kind of raving socialist.

So, I don't think it's so much "avenge" as bring his grandfather's fascist dream to its conclusion.

Also, I used the right word to describe how America's First Family of Fascism™ see it.

For them, Prescott must be avenged for being treated like a common criminal.

He continued to do business with Nazi-related figures right into the '50s and, despite that, he was the GOP finance chairman in CT. He was later elected to the US Senate in a special election and served there for 10 years.

Richard Nixon's was a scumbag, but his policies were extremely progressive -- when judged by today's standards -- which was his undoing. He opened relations with China, started the EPA, signed one of the first affirmative action plans, extended the Clean Air Act. He was extremely well-respected in the international community for his grasp of geopolitics. The international community was totally perplexed over the Watergate thing. They just didn't see the problem.

Obama, on the other hand, isn't liberal or progressive, at least judging by his cabinet picks. It will remain to be seen what he does once in office, but with Rubin and Summers holding down the fort on the economy, I'm not sure what to expect. He's certainly to the left of Cheney, but that's not saying a whole lot. He's not even close to the mythical "center." Dennis Kucinich is actually a centrist, but he's portrayed as some kind of wild-eyed lefty nutcase. The whole country has been dragged so far to the right, we don't even know where the center is any more.

As far as Prescott being treated like a common criminal, I guess I'm being cheeky.

Of course he wasn't treated the way one of us would have been treated, but the fact that he had to answer for his actions and pay a fine seemed to them (at least) to be how "common criminals" are treated and certainly beneath a Bush.

Prescott was elected to the Senate and the Connecticut Republicans have named their annual dinner after him.

He had his hand slapped, but real punishment would have had him in prison for life, perhaps even executed for treason (not that I approve of capital punishment - even for a Bush.)

Everything rotten on a grand scale within the United States of America has as its origin a Bush somewhere in the equation.

*'s sudden change of heart to use TARP money to help the automotive industry won't change this fact.



May the Bushes be damned to hell.

... take credit for good ideas started by others.

Prescott was complicit in the slaughter of tens of millions.