Tag: George H.W. Bush

The Return of the Administration of Kindly Old Moderate George Bush

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 7, 2018

The party of George Bush became the party of Donald Trump without any real resistance because the party of George Bush is basically the party of Donald Trump. Now that Trump has nominated Bill Barr, Bush’s Attorney General from 1991-93, to be his own Attorney General, with the clear and obvious consideration that Barr will […]

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More Dispatches from the Administration of George Bush, Kindly Old Moderate

By Erik Loomis

On December 6, 2018

One thing that makes me angry about liberal longing for the days of so-called “moderate” Republicans is that the moderation is always on social issues. This longing is reflective of the fa

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More Dispatches from the Administration of Kindly Old Moderate George Bush

By Erik Loomis

On December 5, 2018

I assigned one of my classes this long August 2018 Nathaniel Rich essay from the New York Times Magazine about how the world almost took climate change seriously and how that didn’t happen. And

Kindly George Bush

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 1, 2018

This excellent thread from the historian Joshua Clark Davis is another reason why we should not remember George Bush kindly. In short, Bush believed that you could buy crack across from the White House and wanted to demagogue it on national television. But you really couldn’t easily buy crack from across the White House. So […]

foreign policy

The U.S. Senate’s Historic Vote on Yemen, with Some Historical Perspective

By Dan Nexon

On December 1, 2018

On Wednesday, the Senate voted to advance a resolution invoking the War Power Act and giving President Trump 90 days to end American involvement in Yemen. Mark Weisbrot at The Guardian and Alex Ward a

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Bush

By Erik Loomis

On December 1, 2018

President David Cop-A-Feel is dead. We are going to see a lot of liberal lament for Bush now that he is gone. Heck, we even see that for his terrible son now that Trump is president. But let’s not f

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 188

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 13, 2018

This is the grave of Robert Mosbacher. Born in 1927 in Mount Vernon, New York, Mosbacher attended Washington and Lee University and then moved to Texas after graduation to make his fortune in oil thanks to a $500,000 starter grant from daddy. While there, he met another young man doing the same–George H.W. Bush. Like […]

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Remembering U.S. Complicity in Salvadoran Military Crimes

By Erik Loomis

On November 17, 2014

25 years ago yesterday, the Salvadoran military massacred six Jesuit priests and two women who worked for them. The National Security Archive has collected documents showing how the Bush administratio

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Morons

By Erik Loomis

On December 26, 2012

All of our favorite conservative writers are up in arms because David Gregory brought a high-powered ammunition magazine onto Meet the Press yesterday in order to discuss gun violence. William Jacobso

Vice-President Eastwood?

By Erik Loomis

In General

On September 1, 2012

Does anyone have more information about this? Romney advisers so trusted Mr. Eastwood, 82, that unlike with other speakers, they said they did not conduct rehearsals or insist on a script or communicate guidelines for the style or format of his remarks. For Mr. Eastwood, the convention speech was a bit part in a career […]