The Bush Family has a LONG history of failures- turned- into-unusual- successes

[SoCalDem]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush

Take a little time to read up on ole Prescott, and you'll find some strange things.

He seems to have failed a LOT, and yet, each subsequent "job" seems to be a step up..sound like someone else we know?

The Bush family seems to have some invisible "string-pullers" lurking in the background for all their male family members. No matter how many times they screw up, their path of plunder and "financial success" seems to have only one direction..

In most people's lives, a business failure results in diminshed status, not a promotion to a bigger & better job.

........................from wiki.................
1931-
Bush became a founding partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. that was created through the1931 merger of Brown Bros. & Co., a merchant bank founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1818 with Harriman Brothers & Co., established in New York City in 1927, and A. Harriman & Co.
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This is the very SAME company we know today as KBR...with a big connection to Dick Cheney too..


The Bush Family has been cheating & stealing from the US Treasury for 77 years...at least..

[lligrd]

1. Yep, Most Successful Failures Ever

They've never succeeded at being human though.

[driver8]

2. I hate the fucking Bush family.

After dickhead leaves office, I hope I never have to hear of them again -- unless it's for dipshit's trial.

[Riddler]

8. ......or better still, the asshole's funeral.

[SoCalDem]

12. I just hope that none of them dies while Junior is still in the WhiteHouse

fingers crossed

[ladjf]

3. In certain bizarre ways, psychopaths have traits that are conducive

to political success. They are often driven to dominate and are void of mercy or compassion.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. It's what the Chimp calls "catastrophic success"

Bush was referring to the Iraq War when he used that term, but it applies to everything else he's touched; a success for him but a catastrophy for everyone else around him, including Harken investors left holding the bag, taxpayers whose land was seized by Bush's baseball team to make him rich, soldiers who died so he could parade his crotch and ass on an aircraft carrier runway, Iraqis who died so a Chimp could pound his chest on national TV, Americans whose housing bubble blew up because Bush refused to regulate the hedge fund industry, Americans who are paying through the nose for gas because Bush refused to adopt policies for a strong dollar and instead has accumulated tremendous debt through unending borrowing to fund his unending wars.

[arcadian]

5. Sorry, you're wrong.

Kellogg, Brown & Root and Brown Brothers, Harriman have different lineages. The "Brown brothers" in KBR are George and Herman Brown from Texas. Though staunch republicans, they were LBJ's financial backers. Which should tell you something about LBJ. The other Brown brothers founded Brown Bros. & Co. in 1818. There was a George that founded Brown Bros. however, maybe that is the source of the mix up. :-)

[Winterblues]

6. Harriman was Barbara's maiden name

:shrug:

[Hannah Bell]

9. no.

pierce.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Bush

[Winterblues]

10. D'oh

oops you are correct. I don't have the foggiest what I was thinking about..Never Mind
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:5zxxs5-JmjwJ:i114.photobucket.com/albums/n257/OrangeClouds

[SoCalDem]

11. Those families are all "related" anyway

:)

[dantyrant]

7. When Cheney was first elected to Congress, he was known as the

congressman from Brown and Root, IIRC...

Anyways, this is what the Bush family has always done -- their family business is fraud, as Al Martin explains(almartin.com):

In his online column, "Behind the Scenes of the Beltway," (http://www.almartinraw.com), Al Martin has written that "you have to look at the entire Bush Family in this context -- as if the entire family ran a corporation called 'Frauds-R-Us.' Each member of the family, George Sr. , George Jr., Neil, Jeb, Prescott, Wally, etc., have their own specialty of fraud."

"George Jr.'s specialty was insurance and security fraud. Jeb's specialty was oil and gas fraud. Neil's specialty was real estate fraud. Prescott's specialty was banking fraud. Wally's specialty was securities fraud. And George Bush Sr.'s specialty? All of the above."

In this context, the infamous Harken Energy Fraud takes on new meaning as a multi-generational family of fraudsters, using high-level insider contacts, are able to manipulate stock prices for their own profiteering.

"Harken was one of those deals that was a combination fraud as well as a manipulation," says Al Martin. "There's different types of fraud when you get into securities. When George Jr. was put in charge of Harken Energy by his father , he essentially took it down the tubes. You have to realize that every business that George Jr. has ever had has failed. That's the man's business record."

Enquiring minds want to know -- was it deliberate? "It was a deliberate act by the old man, knowing that his son would take it down the tubes because the son's incompetent," Al Martin replies.

"George Bush, Sr. and James Baker and Senator Tower would heavily short Harken stock. I have a list of everybody because I was one of them but to a much smaller extent. Harken stock was trading at 7-3/4 or 8, when George Jr, was put in charge of it. A year later, the stock was trading at 1-1/8 bid, 3/8 offer. They pumped the stock back up through a lot of bogus press releases and by using essentially worthless leases in Bahrain and essentially worthless South American oil leases and through sympathetic geologists making them appear to be really worth something and making it appear that Harken's about to make a strike when in fact it's all made up. It's all fictitious. And through carefully crafted broker releases and broker statements and press releases, you can pump the stock back up. This has happened sixteen times to my knowledge. Harken would get pumped back up from the dead, from say a buck, buck and a half, back to seven, seven and a half, then it would get dumped again. Originally George Jr. had control of the company. He stayed on the board."