When a "Family Business" threatens the planet...

The strange relationship between the current President and his father is the stuff of advanced psychology. Yet it once again winds up on the cover of Newsweek.

Here is a frightening breakdown of just how much dysfunctional familial dynamics have influenced war making, economic melt downs, the future direction of the nation...

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_digbysblog_archive.html#116327828533935151

As the leader of the free world's clothes fall off, all his friends rush to spin their loyalties of the last six years. Rush, Dobson, Hewitt go all Judas on George W-trying to claim and spin that they were just following marching orders and willingly leading their followers along.

Hense "Ditto Head" certainly takes on new meaning.

Glen Greenwald lays bare their strategy...

Here's what they used to say:

"It is Rush Limbaugh, who, at the time of Reagan's 2004 death, said: "Reagan was right just as George W. Bush is today, and I really believe that if Reagan had been able he would have put his hand on Bush's shoulder and say to him, 'Stay the course, George.' I really believe that." How about James Dobson: "

"According to Dobson, evangelical Protestants played a major role in re-electing President George W. Bush, giving him a 'great mandate.'"

"So let us smash the ludicrous pretense that Bush and the Republicans are somehow "separate" from "conservatism" before that toxic and grossly dishonest notion can take root. Until 2005 -- when the Bush presidency irrevocably collapsed -- who were the "real conservatives" who were insisting that George Bush was not one of them?"

The few who did -- Pat Buchanan, Andrew Sullivan, Bob Barr, Bruce Fein -- were deemed apostates and, in any event, compose such a small group that they are merely the exception that proves the rule."

Greenwald then points out that all those running for political cover now gave George W Bush endless political cover for six years...

"Particularly after 2004 (but almost never before), it is true that there are conservatives who dissented here and there on isolated, largely overlooked policy issues, but the vast majority of self-proclaimed "conservatives" claimed George Bush as their leader and the entire GOP Congressional leadership -- Tom DeLay, Denny Hastert, Bill First, Mitch McConnell -- as their own. That is just a matter of undisputed historical fact."

The rest of the dishonesty is found here:

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/11/george-bush-and-gop-house-leaders.html#links