"Go-Along First Lady Shows She Can Go It Alone" (NYT)

[DemoTex]

Laura Bush collected nearly $2 million last month at three fund-raisers for President Bush's re-election campaign, Bush-Cheney '04, and campaign officials expect her to appear at some 20 more. (Snip)

Mrs. Bush's image as the first librarian tempers her expanding role as a formidable political asset in a highly political White House and helps ensure that her multimillion-dollar re-election fund-raising attracts little notice. For a woman with little professed taste for politics, she has become a vital part of the White House all-star trio — with her husband and Vice President Dick Cheney — that vacuumed up $21.7 million in the last two weeks of June, more than all the Democrats combined. (Snip)

"She just casually would greet every single person she saw," said Mr. Reynolds, who tented his lawn in the city's horsey suburb, Indian Hill, for a cocktail party for some 500 people. "She's very happy to do this for us and the president." Mr. Reynolds, a wealthy executive and Bush family friend who was born in Chattanooga and lives in Cincinnati, picked those two cities for Mrs. Bush because of his connections there to Republican money. (More)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/07/national/07LETT.html?ex=1058155200&en=41585014985e8bca&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

:puke:

Pickles and Prime Minister Cheney come out of their hidey-holes for money. It is about nothing but money. It is about nothing but greed. It is about nothing but avarice and power. Super-whoring while our troops get picked off, one and two a day, and the un-elected, AWOL, coke-headed, booze-breathed Bu$h struts around in a fighter pilot costume and taunts the Iraqi resistance with sophomoric jock jibes.

To calm myself down I chant the mantra of the Brothers in Vietnam:

It's just a thing,
Ain't nothin' but a thing man,
Just a fucking thing,
It's only a thing Brother.

[Skittles]

1. Yup, the little Stepford Wife plays the role of Bush whore well

she disgusts me.