Wed Dec 26, 2012, 01:24 PM

Recursion (25,496 posts)

What is Shrub up to nowadays, anyways?

There are a ton of news stories about Poppy (apparently he's feeling better) but W's disappearing act seems to be remarkably complete. Is he still doing that AIDS relief thing? Mugging grandparents for fun?

40 replies, 1248 views

Reply to this thread

Always highlight: 10 newest replies | Replies posted after I mark a forum

Replies to this discussion thread

40 replies	Author	Time	Post
What is Shrub up to nowadays, anyways? (Original post)	Recursion	Dec 2012	OP
Probably spends most of his time in the BushCo think tank.	lpbk2713	Dec 2012	#1
I like to think he's waiting for spring training	Brother Buzz	Dec 2012	#2
Last I heard, he had taken up painting dog portraits.	femmocrat	Dec 2012	#3
The dogs are playing poker and drinking booze.	iemitsu	Dec 2012	#27
volunteering at brush clearing for humanity	unblock	Dec 2012	#4
LOL	MannyGoldstein	Dec 2012	#26
I think he took up knitting ....	SummerSnow	Dec 2012	#5
Did not hear that he has visited his ailing father in the hospital	libodem	Dec 2012	#6
I suspect Poppy always viewed W with some resignation-- like, too bad W took after the >>>	Gidney N Cloyd	Dec 2012	#10
he should be in the Hague	slumdoggandu	Dec 2012	#7
About a quart, at least. nt	tblue37	Dec 2012	#8
Down a quart in the brains dept., however...nt	PCIntern	Dec 2012	#9
It's not as if he was using it. n/t	JHB	Dec 2012	#13
About a 12 pack	DJ13	Dec 2012	#11
What's he doing? Same thing he's done his entire life.	Ikonoklast	Dec 2012	#12
It has been discussed and widely believed that this photo is bush, sr. crying at the end..	Tikki	Dec 2012	#14
He's got a large head,	yortsed snacilbuper	Dec 2012	#39
War on Mesquite....at the ranch...?	Evasporque	Dec 2012	#15
He hasn't been back since he left DC	DollarBillHines	Dec 2012	#20
probably too hard to sober him up for the cameras	zbdent	Dec 2012	#16
Well, a few months ago he was a speaker at an Aflac conference in Vegas	rainbow4321	Dec 2012	#17
I will respond to that question with ignorance and apathy.	Arkansas Granny	Dec 2012	#18
Sitting in a recliner in his underwear, watching a football game	The Velveteen Ocelot	Dec 2012	#19
Poppy is declining fast	malaise	Dec 2012	#21
Shoving liquor down his pie hole and playing golf.	BigDemVoter	Dec 2012	#22
OK. You made me curious, so I Googled.	GreenStormCloud	Dec 2012	#23
The very least he could do to atone	libodem	Dec 2012	#24
nobody cares. romney, the same.	spanone	Dec 2012	#25
probably still celebrating he had one term more than his daddy	Skittles	Dec 2012	#28
AWOL. As usual. It's a Republican tradition.	Berlum	Dec 2012	#29
Walking the dog and getting drunk in the evenings, perhaps? nt	MADem	Dec 2012	#30
Practicing...	SirRevolutionary	Dec 2012	#31
If Shrub disappears and goes unmentioned long enough,	CheapShotArtist	Dec 2012	#32
Shrub may be the only substance, other than sulfur, that never stops stinking.	leveymg	Dec 2012	#36
He ain't drunk he's just drinkin	wilsonbooks	Dec 2012	#33
He Wants To Party With You...	KharmaTrain	Dec 2012	#34
When he left president position he said he was out of politics & so it was.	Sunlei	Dec 2012	#35
He was in the Cayman Islands the week before the election	subterranean	Dec 2012	#37
War criminals have hide out!	yortsed snacilbuper	Dec 2012	#38
Slurping up booze, playing golf, getting paid by RW "think tanks" to "speak". . . .	BigDemVoter	Dec 2012	#40

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 01:30 PM

lpbk2713 (23,254 posts)

1. Probably spends most of his time in the BushCo think tank.

... with Messrs Jim Beam, IW Harper, et al.

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 01:30 PM

Brother Buzz (8,370 posts)

2. I like to think he's waiting for spring training

I understand he landed his dream gig as a 'Ball Dude' for an East Texas minor league baseball teem. Free hot dogs and beer, WooHoo!

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 01:31 PM

femmocrat (13,954 posts)

3. Last I heard, he had taken up painting dog portraits.

Wonder if he sells them on ebay?

Reply to this post

Response to femmocrat (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 02:42 PM

iemitsu (1,783 posts)

27. The dogs are playing poker and drinking booze.

George was bred for a "dog's life".

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 01:49 PM

unblock (23,759 posts)

4. volunteering at brush clearing for humanity

he has people cart in brush for struggling millionaire ranchers who need help staging p.r. events.

Reply to this post

Response to unblock (Reply #4)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 02:40 PM

MannyGoldstein (21,443 posts)

26. LOL

Good one!

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 01:50 PM

SummerSnow (936 posts)

5. I think he took up knitting ....

He said he was excited about becoming a grandfather.So he learning how to knit some booties.

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 01:59 PM

libodem (11,814 posts)

6. Did not hear that he has visited his ailing father in the hospital

Wonder if his father's filters have quit working and he is saying what a fuck-up and disappointment, Jr. turned out to be. I think he is furious Chimpy, wrecked Jeb's chances of running and leaving a better family legacy.
The family has been trashed, the party and the country ruined, by his one man wrecking team of a shallow son.

Reply to this post

Response to libodem (Reply #6)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 02:35 PM

Gidney N Cloyd (10,449 posts)

10. I suspect Poppy always viewed W with some resignation-- like, too bad W took after the >>>

>>>drunken doofus branch of the family (I'm sure there are several who stayed out of the limelight while Poppy's thieving patron genetic strain and Barbara/Jeb's Big Giant Head branch did the heavy lifting)

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 02:05 PM

slumdoggandu (16 posts)

7. he should be in the Hague

being prosecuted.

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 02:17 PM

tblue37 (11,698 posts)

8. About a quart, at least. nt

Reply to this post

Response to tblue37 (Reply #8)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 02:24 PM

PCIntern (13,852 posts)

9. Down a quart in the brains dept., however...nt

Reply to this post

Response to PCIntern (Reply #9)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 02:57 PM

JHB (17,803 posts)

13. It's not as if he was using it. n/t

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 02:38 PM

DJ13 (21,340 posts)

11. About a 12 pack

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 02:51 PM

Ikonoklast (21,631 posts)

12. What's he doing? Same thing he's done his entire life.

Bourbon, blow, and goofing off.

Our first Slacker President.

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 02:59 PM

Tikki (9,607 posts)

14. It has been discussed and widely believed that this photo is bush, sr. crying at the end..

of jeb's reign as governor because they both (jeb and poppy) realize that
this is the end of jebby's political career and that junior ruined it for all of their futures.

Tikki

ps...jeb always looks like an unmade bed...

Reply to this post

Response to Tikki (Reply #14)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 03:54 PM

yortsed snacilbuper (1,018 posts)

39. He's got a large head,

I bet the teabaggers like that!

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 03:28 PM

Evasporque (2,023 posts)

15. War on Mesquite....at the ranch...?

Reply to this post

Response to Evasporque (Reply #15)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 06:43 PM

DollarBillHines (1,922 posts)

20. He hasn't been back since he left DC

His "Beloved Prairie Chapel Ranch" (formerly know as the Sowell Hog Farm) has been on the soft market since the day after he left the WH - no takers.

According to friends of mine who live in Preston Hollow, he rarely leaves his house.

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 03:35 PM

zbdent (34,522 posts)

16. probably too hard to sober him up for the cameras

otherwise, you'd be seeing him visiting his daddy every 5 minutes.

He's more likely waking up only when he hears Pops takes a turn for the worse ... inheritance time to blow on more booze (he is, after all, the "first-born", and thus gets the legacy ...)

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 03:52 PM

rainbow4321 (9,192 posts)

17. Well, a few months ago he was a speaker at an Aflac conference in Vegas

I have a relative who attended and he was a speaker at their breakfast gathering. No pic taking was allowed.

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 04:14 PM

Arkansas Granny (14,634 posts)

18. I will respond to that question with ignorance and apathy.

I don't know and I don't care.

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 04:31 PM

The Velveteen Ocelot (34,724 posts)

19. Sitting in a recliner in his underwear, watching a football game

while partaking of Jack Daniels and Cheetos. Which is fine with me, since I don't want to see him out in public ever again unless he's doing the perp walk somewhere.

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 06:52 PM

malaise (106,021 posts)

21. Poppy is declining fast

He's been in intensive care since Sunday

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 06:53 PM

BigDemVoter (732 posts)

22. Shoving liquor down his pie hole and playing golf.

I heard he's been lapping it up like a wild cat since he left office!

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 07:02 PM

GreenStormCloud (10,179 posts)

23. OK. You made me curious, so I Googled.

The only thing that I can find is that he is offering his pickup truck (2009 Ford F-150 King Ranch 4x4 SuperCrew) up for auction with the proceeds going to a charity, the Fisher House Foundation, which provides no-charge temporary housing for the families of military members being treated for injuries.

He has autographed the passenger side air bag panel.

Reply to this post

Response to GreenStormCloud (Reply #23)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 02:37 PM

libodem (11,814 posts)

24. The very least he could do to atone

Last edited Sat Dec 29, 2012, 02:38 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

For causing the injuries in the first place.

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 02:38 PM

spanone (72,109 posts)

25. nobody cares. romney, the same.

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 02:42 PM

Skittles (86,312 posts)

28. probably still celebrating he had one term more than his daddy

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 02:42 PM

Berlum (3,691 posts)

29. AWOL. As usual. It's a Republican tradition.

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 02:43 PM

MADem (85,989 posts)

30. Walking the dog and getting drunk in the evenings, perhaps? nt

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 02:47 PM

SirRevolutionary (413 posts)

31. Practicing...

to be one of those philanthr-o-fizers...heh heh. Yeeee haw!

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 02:49 PM

CheapShotArtist (315 posts)

32. If Shrub disappears and goes unmentioned long enough,

more people may forget how much of a disaster his pResidency was. They say that former presidents become more popular the longer they're out of office.

Reply to this post

Response to CheapShotArtist (Reply #32)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 03:04 PM

leveymg (26,334 posts)

36. Shrub may be the only substance, other than sulfur, that never stops stinking.

Referring to Bush's own U.N. speech yesterday, Chavez said, "The devil came right here... And it still smells of sulfur today."

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 02:49 PM

wilsonbooks (237 posts)

33. He ain't drunk he's just drinkin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NjVfc8-Y7sQ

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 02:51 PM

KharmaTrain (30,724 posts)

34. He Wants To Party With You...

...he's a speaking gun for hire...

http://www.washingtonspeakers.com/speakers/speaker.cfm?SpeakerID=6436

President during a momentous period in American history, George W. Bush offers his thoughts on eight years in the Oval Office, the challenges facing our nation in the 21st century, the power of freedom, the role of faith and other pressing issues.

I'm sure if you've got $25 or 50k lying around, he'd be glad to chat ya up.

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 03:00 PM

Sunlei (2,246 posts)

35. When he left president position he said he was out of politics & so it was.

Last edited Sat Dec 29, 2012, 03:31 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

I don't know what he is scared of? Young ex-president Bush never even appeared at the republican primary or with Romney. Not one speech with the party who elected him ever again.

Guess we will never know why Bush is terrified of his own party and the people in his own admin.

Reply to this post

Response to Recursion (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 03:23 PM

subterranean (2,078 posts)