Budget for George W. Bush's $500 million presidential library
Our Leader wants to raise $500 million to build his presidential library at Southern Methodist University:
The legacy-polishing centerpiece is an institute, which several Bush insiders called the Institute for Democracy. Patterned after Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Bush's institute will hire conservative scholars and "give them money to write papers and books favorable to the President's policies," one Bush insider said.
Here's the breakdown:
* $10 million: 10 million Mexican flags (made in China).
* $30 million: Grant to fund the Institute.
* $20 million: "Keep Them On The Reservation" fund to pay off those who staff the Institute and who suddenly realize that they can't endorse Bush's policies anymore to continue to endorse his policies.
* $20 million: Emergency "Keep Them On The Reservation" fund to do whatever - whatever - is necessary to make sure that those who staff the Institute and who suddenly realize that they can't endorse Bush's policies anymore to continue to endorse his policies.
* $10 million: One million copies of "The Mexicano Political Experience in Occupied Aztlan" by Armando Navarro.
* $5 million (per year): Salary for the President of the Institute, Vicente Fox.
* $150 million: No bid contract for Halliburton.
* $15 million: 5 million copies of "My Pet Goat".
* $100 million: Various kickbacks.
In case that doesn't add up to $500 million, the remainder will be reserved for kickbacks.
Comments
Jeebie (not verified)
Mon, 11/27/2006 - 15:46
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No library, no pension. All he deserves is a "wanted" poster at the post office. Will his war against America never end? His legacy, here and in Iraq, will be remembered for the destruction of sovereign nations, cultures, and the economies. Leaving both countries involved in bloody civil war. Oh yeah, you will be remembered.
AnonymousDrivel (not verified)
Mon, 11/27/2006 - 12:10
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There's another major inducement for potential donors: Their names aren't required to be made public.
Quoted from article... not my words.
AnonymousDrivel (not verified)
Mon, 11/27/2006 - 12:08
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Bush loyalists have already identified wealthy heiresses, Arab nations and captains of industry as potential "mega" donors...
There's another major inducement for potential donors: Their names aren't required to be made public.
Um, does anyone see a problem with this? Securing "donations" on such a grand scale? While still in office setting policy? I know bribing is customary, but this is pretty egregious.
perroazul del norte (not verified)
Mon, 11/27/2006 - 10:58
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"...he has only internalized the liberal worldview..."
should be "ALSO internalized the liberla worldview"
perroazul del norte (not verified)
Mon, 11/27/2006 - 10:54
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I think Bush is not simply a servant of the corporations, he has only internalized the liberal worldview that sees all change as positive and exults in ever more "diversity" and "multiculturalism". Plus there are all those good times he had in the Mexican border towns during his very, very long misspent youth.
David Frum has something interesting to say about this:
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As Ward-Perkins points out in a very courageous introduction, the idea that decline never happens, that all changes are in fact "positive cultural transformations" holds such a grip on the contemporary liberal mind that even so smashing and universal a catastrophe as the barbarian invasions of Europe gets reinterpreted out of existence. Instead, academics and the journalists who write about them have reinterpreted invasion, the collapse of civil authority, the implosion of Europe's economy, and the destruction of literacy and culture not as "decline," but as evolution toward a more vibrant diversity. You know, I'm almost tempted to invite readers to "draw their own parallels" myself.