A George W. Bush Library? What's it going to house, 100,000 copies of The Pet Goat -- with some Shakespeares and a Camus thrown in for good measure?
This is hilarious.
So why is Bush 43 shooting for half-a-bil? According to an insider, the amount is "so much bigger than anything that's been tried before. But the more you have, the more influence [on history] you can exert."
In other words, it's going to take a hell of a lot of money to try and perform the political alchemy of turning Bush's legacy of tragic failure into something future generations won't need a gas mask and an air sickness bag to study.
Well, THAT'S a given!
So where is the $500 million going to come from?
According to the New York Daily News, Bush fundraisers hope to raise half their goal -- $250 million -- in "megadonations" of $10 million to $20 million from "wealthy heiresses, Arab nations, and captains of industry."
Wealthy heiresses? Somehow I just can't picture Bush putting on an ascot and turning into a Beltway version of The Producers' Max Bialystock, chasing rich old ladies around the Oval Office, trying to romance them out of a seven-figure check. Or maybe the Bush Twins are closer to Paris Hilton and Ivanka Trump than we know.
On the other hand, I get the Arab nations part -- it's a family tradition: the Sultanate of Oman, the King of Morocco, the Emir of Qatar, the Bandar bin Sultan family, the state of Kuwait, and a sheik from the United Arab Emirates (Dubai Port flashback!) all kicked in to help build Poppy Bush's library.
Now it all becomes clear.
Bush 43 may be a lame duck, but he still has two years left in which he can throw open the doors of the White House favor bank. So it's especially troubling that the names of donors to his library don't have to be made public.Hmmmm.
That's right, captains of industry, Arab nations, wealthy heiresses, and anyone else with very deep pockets will be able to curry $10 million or $20 million worth of goodwill with the president of the United States -- and no one need know.
It would be one thing if Bush waited until he was out of office before hanging a For Sale sign on the Oval Office. But if he insists on going for the gold while he's still president, the least he can do is make sure the public knows who is contributing to his library fund.
Amen.
4 comments:
I heard that the renowned cigar company, Monica Christo donated heavily to the Clinton library.
Shrillary was not available for comment.
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The Monica reference was funny, but it's not relevant to the post. Monica's monetary contribution was zero. No cigar companies actually donated to Clinton's library in any concentrated amount sufficient to put forth an alternate view of the "cigar" in question. Lastly, none of the Clinton contributors had a vested interest in altering reality for history's sake.
Vast difference. Someone's gotta keep those WMD in Iraq fantasies alive!
Guess it won't be Saddam. The winners always write the history.
...the cigar, the blue dress. I've been wondering whether Bubba has all the important artifacts of his legacy together in one display.
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