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Born on July 6th, 1946 in New Haven Connecticut, Bush is the scion of an
increasingly closed political class in which dynasticism determines who will
assume the highest elective and appointed political offices. He is grandson of
Prescott Bush and the son of former President George Bush. So in reality, George
W. is actually an old money New England Yankee posturing as a Texas cowboy.

Graduated in 1968 from Yale with a Bachelor's degree, avoided the draft by
enlisting in the Texas Air National Guard, and received an MBA from Harvard
Business School in 1975. His enrollment in Yale prevented a more deserving young
man or woman from attending that elite university. After two years of learning
how to fly jets in the Texas Ait National Guard, he was promoted to First
Lieutenant on the November 1970 recommendation of his commander Lt. Col. Jerry
B. Killian. He "served" as an F-102 pilot until 1972, although his absence
without leave remains a mystery. Unlike decorated miltiary hero John Kerry, he
did not serve in Vietnam. He did however support the war politically, as did
many other wealthy elites who found ways to avoid risking their own lives.
Letting working class Americans assume risks they themselves would not assume is
the philosophical heart of conservatism.

After a career in business heavily dependent on elite personal contacts,
favorable inside deals and government contracts, George Bush Jr. was elected
Governor of Texas in 1994, defeating the popular incumbent Ann Richards, and he
was re-elected in 1998. In 2000, he lost the popular vote of the Presidential
Election to Albert Gore, but, through Republican Party control of the election
apparatus in Florida, was able to force his slate of electors to be sent from
that state (8 of 9 subsequent recounts showed Al Gore to have legitimately won
Florida). On December 12th 2000, five Republican members of the Supreme Court
issued an unsigned decision, Bush v. Gore, that installed him in power. Congress
decided not to contest or investigate the election, and Bush was installed as
Executive on January 20th 2001 in 1 5 to 4 party line vote by the Supreme Court
of the United States.

While he campaigned as a moderate, his Executive had two set plans: the first,
and most obvious, was to pass a series of massive tax breaks for the wealthy,
under the guise of dealing with the economic crisis that resulted from the
collapse of the stock market bubble in 2000. Even as the economy slipped into
recession, the Bush Executive refused to countenance stimulus, and instead
forced through a series of deficit-inducing tax reductions targeted at the top
2%.

His popularity drifted downwards until a small group of Arab terrorists funded
and trained by Al Queda attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, on
September 11th 2001. These [2] attacks redefined his place in the political
universe, and gave him stratospheric poll ratings and a mandate to act with
impunity. He signed into law a series of corporate bailouts, and the Patriot Act
and ordered the invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001. By early 2002 the Taliban
regime, which had sheltered Usama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda terrorist training
camps had been driven from power in Kabul, and Afghanistan was turned over to a
de-facto government of warlords and drug lords which held elections including
women's suffrage. The most important Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan
were allowed to escape in the Tora Bora Breakout and Osama bin Laden remains at
large.

Bush's regime of tax breaks did little to stimulate hiring; in fact, they
created an incentive to profitize revenues, and depressed hiring. The economy
continued to shed jobs and manufacturing jobs, even as GDP turned upwards. In
order to prevent the economy from completely collapsing, a Federal Reserve board
headed by far right central banker Alan Greenspan and long time far right
economist Ben Bernanke kept interest rates at generational lows. The result was
a devaluation of the dollar against independent currencies, which lead to the
Crash of 2002.

At this point the other fixed policy of the Bush Executive came into play:
invading Iraq and Thatcherizing it, to place its key assets in foreign hands, or
in the hands of a carefully selected oligarchy. Creating a series of nakedly
false claims about the regime of Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, the Bush
Executive proceded to force through a UN Security Council resolution 1441, and
in early 2003 invaded Iraq.

During this period there was an aggressive use of propaganda, associating
political opponents with terrorists and traitors, and the institution of huge
new federal bureaucracies for Homeland Security, as well as large corporate
welfare programs such as the Medicare Drug Benefit. The economy continued to
wallow in a protracted recession, causing the National Bureau of Economic
Research to redefine "recession" so as to mark an official end to the recession.
Under the old definition the recession would not have been declared over until
August of 2003.

Under the stimulus of war-time spending, including an $89 billion dollar
supplemental Iraq appropriation, U.S. GDP finally began growing again. Hiring
however, continued at an anemic pace, creating only slightly over 100,000 jobs a
month, and these were mainly in the construction industry, subsidized by low
interest rates and a Treasury yield curve that favored mortgage lending. The
resulting housing bubble kept hiring and spending afloat, even as it bloated
consumer debt and the balance of trade deficit. The profligate spending packages
added almost $1 million dollars a day to the National Debt.

This flood of money, and the risks associated with the Iraq war caused oil
prices to spiral upwards to levels higher than all but 6 of the last 45 years,
and the price of consumer gasoline to break through the long 16 year commodities
depression levels of 1986-2002. George Bush's popularity fell to 42%, and the
clear pattern of bleeding support between spikes of "surprise" news had been
well established. Challenged by Democratic Senator John Kerry, Bush raised an
unprecedented $175 million dollar war chest for the election of 2004, and
unleashed his supporters in the press to accuse his political opponents of
"treason" and "slander", and imply that they were supported by the Al Qaeda
terrorist network.

By late spring of 2006, his popularity at a low ebb as reflected in approval
ratings of only 29%, and the occupation of Iraq in a complete shambles, Bush has
launched a counter-offensive, reasserting that opponents of the executive are
disloyal and putting American military personnel at risk. This smirking
privileged son of the ruling class will sacrifice anything for power, inlcuding
the lives and liberties of working Americans.

Grandson of Prescott Bush. Son of George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush. Brother of
Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Husband to Laura Bush.