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George Bush: Us Congress
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Ms. Kelley treats subjects as far-flung as the pranks the younger George Bush played at boarding school at Andover and his jocular use of obscene language in the years before taking office. But she ... discusses questions about how he avoided serving in Vietnam, about excessive drinking and whether he used illegal drugs and about his business career. It is a fast-paced, gossipy narrative that relies on second-hand or unnamed sources for much of its new and most vivid details.
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In 1953, Bush got money from Brown Brothers Harriman and, with partners Hugh and Bill Liedtke, formed Zapata Petroleum. By the late 1950s they were millionaires. Bush bought subsidiary Zapata Off-Shore from his partners and went into business on his own in 1954. By 1958, the new company was drilling on the Cay Sal Bank in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. These islands had been leased to Nixon supporter and CIA contractor Howard Hughes the previous year and were later used as a base for CIA raids on Cuba. The CIA was using companies like Zapata to stage and supply secret missions attacking Fidel Castro’s Cuban government in advance of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
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In domestic affairs Bush was more confrontational with Congress, using or threatening to use his veto power on a wide range of legislation. He fired the director of the National Endowment for the Arts as a result of a dispute over federal funding of so-called “pornographic†art. He reiterated his position calling for an end to abortion. He refused to pledge American adherence to proposed new pollution controls that had gained worldwide backing. He insisted that the budget limitations on domestic spending (agreed to in 1990) remain in place, in spite of pressure to spend the “peace dividend†(money not spent on defense) on social programs. He blocked a range of Democratic economic measures with vetoes, all of which were sustained.
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Geore W Bush's covert dislike of Christians is old news. Like his neoconservative cabal, he looks upon them as useful idiots, pawns in a global agenda. And despite some empty rhetoric, Bush's domestic policies have harmed working Christian families. Two policies in particular, immigration and free trade, have been devastating.
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In 1994 Bush ran for governor against popular Democratic governor Ann Richards. The gubernatorial race was a hard fought, sometimes bitter, contest. Bush’s campaign focused on four themes: welfare reform, tort reform, crime reduction, and education improvement. Bush worked hard to sell himself as a Texan, vowing not to be defeated by the same outsider perception that had helped derail his 1978 bid for Congress. He crisscrossed the state, accusing his opponent of spending too much time away from Texas. In an upset, he defeated Richards with 53.5 percent of the vote.
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In their bizarre defense of Bush's lie to Congress in the State of the Union address, conservatives note that it was only 16 words. Funny, the previous inhabitant of the Oval Office was impeached for just 9 words: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Do these conservative paragons of virtue really believe that the number of words uttered in a lie matter? Or is Bush the sort of man whose supporters will say anything to get their guy off the hook?
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