> [via Sam Smith's Progressive Review]
This is a fabulous summary of Bush's career -- it's like Molly Ivins' whole book condensed into three pages. (It gets going after four paragraphs.) But it's wrong to call him a welfare queen. He got all his money from the goodness of friends. This must be what he means by compassionate conservatism.
Even the Rangers' stadium deal is the exception that proves the rule. He wasn't given that money by the town of Arlington, he stole it the American way, fair and square, by lying to the people and having them vote overwhelming to give it to him. And it's a crime to call stealing the adjourning land by condemning it welfarism. It's more like 19th century robber baronry. Old-timey values, indeed.
Michael