Doesn't the entire Bush machine remind us all of the Corleone

[Veggie Meathead]

family? Their relentless pursuit of power both domestically and internationally by all means available is unique to our history.Their soldiers observe a sort of Omerta, the vow of silence.They think any law that comes in the way of their use or abuse of power can be discarded.I wouldn't put it past them to strongarm or blackmail anyone who tries to tell the truth.Their cynical attitude toward democracy and their shameless pandering to the basest instincts of our people goes beyond anything that even Richard Nixon did.They have used bribes,threats and blackmail to silence anyone and everyone.I can list many more analogies with crime Families but I will stop now.My blood pressure is rising.

[Zinfandel]

1. The corlone's were much more moral than the Bush thugs.

[noahmijo]

9. I agree

The Corleone's tried to take from the haves not the have-nots.

[Fenris]

2. The Corleones killed fewer people.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Yes they are pretty corrupt.

I wonder if they're subject to the RICO statute?

[Nite Owl]

4. They could give the Corleone's

lessons.

[movonne]

5. I can not believe that this is America.....I never thought that a crime

family would take over the WH. The bush crime family is tops them all
can you imagine the Corleone family has seen their business go top level. I just hope that this family goes to prison as the rest have.

[Dudley_DUright]

6. I keep expecting to read in the newspaper

that Kerry woke up to find a horse head in his bed. Of course, Rove usually is not that subtle, hence the Swiftboat vets smear.

[Cleita]

7. They are a crime family of gangsters. There is no denying it.

Some people have claimed this from the beginning of the Bush regime. I don't understand anyone who doesn't see it.

[Pepperbelly]

8. Would that make George W. Sonny or Fredo?

Sonny, he was stupid but that was balanced by his ill temper.

Fredo ... well, that one speaks for itself.

[Veggie Meathead]

11. I think this assignment of roles makes sense to me:

Jeb, being smarter and sneakier, is Michael.
GW is Sonny.And Neil, chasing pussies and wild money schemes, is Fredo.

[DivinBreuvage]

13. No WAY does Jeb Bush resemble Michael Corleone!!!

Michael was goddamned smart and extremely competent, as well as a war hero. Jeb Bush is a vapid buffoon.

On edit, Michael was also damned sexy. :)

[mitchum]

16. All of the Bush sons are Fredo!

They're just a varying levels of craven stupidity

[Octafish]

17. True.

Still, I hear "Tell 'em I'm not dumb like everybody says, Jebthro"
and the music from Deliverance runs through my mind
whenever I think of these who work at Her Satanic Majesty's behest, The Bushes.

[onecitizen]

20. I love that picture!

[DivinBreuvage]

12. Sonny was NOT stupid, and Fredo had a good heart

read the book -- Sonny was a "brilliant tactician" who was an invaluable asset to his father in the Mafia war of 1935. I think W. has all the negative qualities of the two brothers -- Sonny's reckless hot-headed rage and Fredo's lack of courage (though even Fredo had a "real gift" for running hotels) -- but none of their virtues.

[Pepperbelly]

22. Sonny's hot-headedness ...

certainly showed no trace of brilliance. He was soooooooo easy to piss off and then manipulate.

But Fredo ... Fredo turned on the family for Moe Green. What kind of heart does THAT demonstrate now?

[DivinBreuvage]

23. You see only one side of Sonny. If you want to understand the characters

You have to read the book. I know it's fashionable among some circles to run the book down, but it really does flesh out the characters much more fully than the movies do. Sonny is most certainly NOT an idiot, despite the impression you seem to have taken away from the film.

And even in the movies, Fredo's betrayal of Michael was not based on maliciousness, spite, or a bad heart, but because he was so simple-minded that he was easily misled by others.

As I said, Bush has both characters' BAD points (impetuous rage and simplemindedness) but none of their good points. Even the Godfather mafiosi were better people than George Bush.

[Pepperbelly]

28. I've read the book ... albeit ...

many years ago.

And Sonny sometimes just didn't think.

[davsand]

10. Would Fredo be called Dubya in this version?

If the Bush family is the Corleones SOMEBODY has to be Fredo.

:shrug:

I'm just wondering, mind you...

Laura

on edit: Pepperbelly, we must think alike! :)

[smirkymonkey]

14. The Corleones had a code of honor.

The BFEE doesn't know the meaning of the word.

[Junkdrawer]

15. Noam Chomsky uses the gangster analogy all the time...

The word is "Ruthless". So ruthless, in fact, that few who casually follow politics believe the truth of what they've done. It's one of the main reasons they can lie about what they've done and be believed.

[depakid]

18. Randi Rhodes used this analogy, then ran Kay's famous lines:

Oh, oh MICHAEL. MICHAEL you are blind. It wasn't a miscarriage -- it was an abortion. An abortion MICHAEL. Just like our marriage is an abortion. Something that's unholy and evil. I didn't want your son MICHAEL -- I wouldn't bring another one of you sons into this world. It was an abortion MICHAEL. It was a son MICHAEL, a son and I had it killed -- because this must all end.

Fitting, don't you think?

[onecitizen]

19. Yep.........

I call him Don Bush. We do indeed have the mafia occupying the WH.

His whole admin. is his "family". Gawd. I never thought this would happen in my lifetime or EVER.

[Michael Harrington]

21. It's not a precise analogy, but...

Cheney resembles Hyman Roth: he's been dying of the same heart attack for the last ten years.

[vetwife]

24. Yes and we have to donate to the Guy James show

to let that sentiment be known !

[lostnfound]

25. I think it's Catherine Austin Fitts who says 'Bush Organized Crime Family'

nt

[sampsonblk]

26. Santino Bush = Bad Don (full cast here)

Sonny articulated Bush's disastrous foreign policy 30 years in advance.

"We will hit them with all we got!"

Also starring:
Colin Powell as Tom Hagen
Papa Bush as Don Vito Corleone
Barbara Bush as Mama (women should know their place) Corleone
Osama Bin Laden as Solozzo
Neil Bush as Fredo
Ahmed Chalabi as Don Barzini (it was him all along!)
Condi Rice as that chick Sonny was banging at the wedding
Rumsfeld as Fat Clemenza
David Kay as Tessio
Dan Senor as Enzo (da baker, da baker)
Paul Bremer as Al Neri
Richard Perle as Hyman Roth
Saddam Hussein as Don Ciccio (the one Vito went back and killed)

Not a one of these guys could be Michael.

[UdoKier]

27. No, even the Corleones had a sort of code of honor.

The Bushies will do anything they can get away with.