Tweet
Mommy . . . Daddy . . . . Rummy's being mean to me again . . . .
Mommy . . . Daddy . . . . Rummy's being mean to me again . . . .
by Mike Malloy on April 17, 2006 - 6:35pm.
Okay, so maybe it isn’t Cheney who has such a powerful influence on George W. Bush. Maybe it’s someone else. Someone who represents authority and commands – absolutely commands – power. It can’t be Dad. Not as long as Mom is around. Mom has the power in the Bush family. All the power. Every little bit. Look at her boys if you have any doubt. Look at their behavior. Look at what they leave in their wake as they slash and burn with no Daddy to provide manly discipline: Fraud, embezzlement, tax dodges, failed businesses that are cleaned up by family retainers, lies, deceits, wars, death on a massive scale, all sorts of ugliness and embarrassments for such a grand family as the Bushes.
So who, then, for George to emulate? Who to see as the powerful Dad he never had? Ah-ha! It’s Rumsfeld!! That’s it! That old sociopath left over from the bad old days of Nixon and Ford. Close enough to the family to be trusted; far enough removed to allow George a homoerotic fantasy of uniforms and bombs and airplanes that go real fast and beating the hell out of anybody who gets in the way. It’s Rumsfeld.
link
by Mike Malloy on April 17, 2006 - 6:35pm.
Okay, so maybe it isn’t Cheney who has such a powerful influence on George W. Bush. Maybe it’s someone else. Someone who represents authority and commands – absolutely commands – power. It can’t be Dad. Not as long as Mom is around. Mom has the power in the Bush family. All the power. Every little bit. Look at her boys if you have any doubt. Look at their behavior. Look at what they leave in their wake as they slash and burn with no Daddy to provide manly discipline: Fraud, embezzlement, tax dodges, failed businesses that are cleaned up by family retainers, lies, deceits, wars, death on a massive scale, all sorts of ugliness and embarrassments for such a grand family as the Bushes.
So who, then, for George to emulate? Who to see as the powerful Dad he never had? Ah-ha! It’s Rumsfeld!! That’s it! That old sociopath left over from the bad old days of Nixon and Ford. Close enough to the family to be trusted; far enough removed to allow George a homoerotic fantasy of uniforms and bombs and airplanes that go real fast and beating the hell out of anybody who gets in the way. It’s Rumsfeld.
link