The Whitehouse Coup - Prescott Bush, page 3

It's not who you can buy, it's who wants to buy you.

If wealth alone could explain Bush's presidency, Ross Perot would have been elected in 92 and probably served two terms, and odds are that Warren Buffet would have followed him.

Money alone won't do it though. Those with not only the real money but the real power, through well-placed investments and connections to others who are well invested- in short those who own the machinery that makes our society possible- don't lower themselves to the level of the white house (which is the office of the Vice President of Public Relations). They buy off lower-level people to do their dirty work. Like kings, they choose families to a hereditary peerage, and it is the duty of these lesser families to be the middle management and to handle the serfs.

The Bush family is one such family. Samuel P Bush was the "knight" who made the family- he did well in the service of the Rockerfellers and so they got his son Prescott Bush into the Skull and Bones to be groomed to fill his father's shoes in the future.

Prescott Bush furthered the family through his willingness to dirty his hands and do what was asked of him. He was successful in the business he was charged with, he was willing to be the person at risk in such business as dealing with the Nazis, etc.

His son was groomed to fill his shoes in the Skull and Bones, and on the basis of two previous generations of dependable and faithful service he was allowed into the big game. He played it well- perhaps too well for his family's own good. He was greedy. He wanted a promotion. He wanted the presidency. Ford tried to make him unelectable by sending him to the CIA- that was not a gesture of good will.

But Bush came back anyway in the 1980 campaign- at least he could be controlled. Nobody counted on Reagan beating him senseless in the primaries. They scrambled to force Ford onto the ticket, and he would bring Kissinger and Greenspan with him- the fact of the matter was, they intended to steal Reagan's administration from him with a "co-presidency" dominated by Ford.
Who knew that Reagan hated Ford and Carter more than he feared Bush's "liberal" appearance? Bush bowed down to a new master, embracing Reagan's platform, and got himself a vice presidency that was never intended to be his.
To make it right again, they shot Ronald Reagan- a favor done for Bush that gave him more clout in the administration and repurchased his loyalty, as well as serving as a reminder that the elected are meant to follow orders.

By virtue of the position he'd manuevered himself into, Bush 41 was allowed to become their president briefly. They used him for their manuever with respect to Iraq, expecting it to destroy him, but "The Mother of All Battles" was a shockingly one sided affair, to the shock of all the experts (even the commandant of the Marine Corps took one look at the original battle plan from Schwartz-wartz and said, "My God, it'll be another Tarawa"). So they used economics to get rid of Bush and they put up Clinton, with stunning success.

Bush was still pushing his dynasty, and it was time for the next move in the middle east anyways, so they went ahead and gave Bush enough rope to hang himself with.
This Bush didn't have the moral courage or the cunning to manuever the way his father had. He broke from his father and he was a good soldier, much more in the style of Prescott Bush than George H. W. Bush, and he didn't even understand that he was being punished for his father's ambition. They used him to get what they wanted and destroy the Bush family at the same time.

The Bush family is bought for a purpose, and punished harshly when it does anything other than what it is paid to do. It's not the money, it's making yourself a commodity.