this was one of several things that pissed me off about bush.
patriot act was one.
harriet myers was one.
caving to obama’s command to begin bailouts was one.
creating dhs and tsa were two, and turning tsa glorified baggage handlers into badged thugs was another.
You struck a chord.
Lots of things pissed me off about the Bushes. Starting with Daddy Bush who was head spook in the Ford-Rockefeller Administration.
Reagan gave Daddy Bush a chance to see the conservative light, but Daddy Bush was a Rockefeller Pubbie to his most rotten core as was Dick Cheney who was the Warren Commissioner's Chief of Staff.
But this is what pissed me off the most.
When Junior got himself nominated, Daddy Bush most likely suggested having his old buddy Dick Cheney find him a running mate.
The guy Cheney found had five draft deferments, two DUIs, a checkered academic record, a heart condition, was constitutionally ineligible to run with Junior, and no experience of running for office outside of running campaigns in the least populated state in the union with a total of three electoral votes.
Of course when you send a power junkie like Cheney to find a candidate who if elected will sit one heartbeat or one hunting trip away from the most powerful office in the world, the power junkie cannot help himself. He will suggest himself even if he can only bring three electoral votes to the campaign which were already in the red column.
Tricky Dick sold the goods and Junior fell for the sales job.
It was just one of many nails in the coffin of Conservatives and the Republican Party.
Cheney rebranded Consevatives into Neo-cons who are no more than the sales force for the military industrial complex and the surveillance state.
Most importantly he deprived the Republican Party of the most important asset of any incumbent party to the executive branch may have which is using the vice presidency to develop the most viable candidate to succeed the incumbent in office.