Settling Scores, House of Bush Style

In a forthcoming book, former President and head of the House of Bush, George Herbert Walker "Pork Rinds" Bush unloads on former (Vice) President and unindicted war criminal Dick "The Dick" Cheney, who served him in his administration and in his son's administration.  The elder Bush all but says that The Dick ill served Dumbya, and had some choice comments:

"He had his own empire there and marched to his own drummer. It just showed me that you cannot do it that way. The president should not have that worry…. [after 9-11] He just became very hard-line and very different from the Dick Cheney I knew and worked with.  Just iron-ass. His seeming knuckling under to the real hard-charging guys who want to fight about everything, use force to get our way in the Middle East."

And Dumbya was where when The Dick was running amok, clearing brush at his fake ranch in Crawford, TX? The elder Bush goes on about The Dick's empire-building under the nose of his clueless son Dumbya:

"The big mistake that was made was letting Cheney bring in kind of his own State Department.  I think they overdid that. But it’s not Cheney’s fault. It’s the president’s fault."

Good for Pork Rinds to admit that his son was, once again, asleep at the switch. But let's remember that some of that "State Department" crew that The Dick brought in are currently advising none other than….son J.E.B.! 

So as not to leave out one of the major ringleaders, the elder Bush blasted former Defense Secretary Donald "You Go To War With What You Have" Rumsfeld as having "served the President badly."  Let 'em have it, Pork Rinds:

"There’s a lack of humility, a lack of seeing what the other guy thinks. He’s more kick ass and take names, take numbers. I think he paid a price for that. Rumsfeld was an arrogant fellow and self-assured, swagger."

Of course, all of which could be said of swaggering, faux tough guy, shoot-from-the-hip Dumbya, in spades. But then this is just settling scores, House of Bush style.