GOP Rep Pushing Bill To Rename Midland, TX Courthouse After Bush
GOP Rep Pushing Bill To Rename Midland, TX Courthouse After Bush
During the past few months, President Bush and his closest allies have been working diligently to shape his legacy. Their efforts have included rewriting history in the last days of his presidency, creating the Bush-Cheney Alumni Association website to “set the record straight,” and working on the “partisan” Bush library and “think tank” at Southern Methodist University.
Now, the Dallas Morning News reports Bush may be getting some help from his friends in Congress:
Texas lawmakers are pushing to name a Midland courthouse for former President George W. Bush. [...] Rep. Michael Conaway, R-Midland – Bush’s longtime friend and former accountant – is pushing the idea. All 20 Texas Republicans in the U.S. House have signed on, as well as 10 of the 12 Texas Democrats.
However, the name change would be particularly ironic considering the Bush administration’s penchant for abusing the justice system. Some of the lowlights:
– Bush directly and explicitly ordered torture, including the waterboarding of at least three detainees.
– The Bush administration repeatedly denied the rights of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay until the Supreme Court ruled that habeas corpus protections apply to detainees.
– An 18-month DOJ Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility investigation released in September found that the Bush administration fired nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006 for political reasons.
– Bush secretly authorized the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program which has infringed on the liberties of ordinary Americans.
While Conaway introduced the measure last week, he pushed a similar idea in Congress last spring but “the bill died in committee.” But unlike previous local measures honoring his name, even if the bill passes, Bush “would have to share the honor with his dad and a longtime Democratic congressman.”
(HT: Pam’s House Blend)
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the name change would be particularly ironic considering the Bush administration’s penchant for abusing the justice system.
not sure I can agree with this.
I think Republicans and BushCo in particular have killed irony.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:07 pmWhat the hell is wrong with those 10 out of 12 Democrats? Were they living in another country the last 8 years?
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:10 pmIgnoranceIsNotBliss Says:
What the hell is wrong with those 10 out of 12 Democrats? Were they living in another country the last 8 years?
Yeap. In Texas.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:11 pmWe have a George Bush toll road in Dallas. (named for Sr.)
I prefer the LBJ Freeway.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:12 pmOh yeah, I forgot about that Luis M.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:13 pmWhat ever happened to the sewage treatment plant in SF that they were going to rename after W?
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:17 pmdo the Midland-ites, -ers?, have anything to say about it?
maybe they’d just as soon forget it all…
after all, dubya’s moving away soon… not?
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:17 pmCan the Democrats filibuster?
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:18 pmI don’t get it, why would any town want to name their courthouse “f**kwad?”
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:18 pmTexas…what else needs to be said?
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:21 pmTotally off-topic, here’s Kiefer Sutherland in an interview by the Guardian:
There ya go, straight from Jack Bauer’s mouth.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:21 pmIs Bush dead? Oh, no, it’s more of the tacky naming things after people while they’re still alive. Sigh.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:24 pmElBruce Says:
I don’t get it, why would any town want to name their courthouse “f**kwad?”
read in a squinty Bush voice:
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:24 pmHey, that’s Mr. f**kwad to you buddy, and the courthouse is gonna be called The Decider’s House of Awesome, where names get took and cages get shook, heh heh.
In Illinois, the day after the governor was impeached, the tollway signs bearing his name were removed.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:26 pmTake heed, Texas. When Bush & Company are hauled off to prison for war crimes and domestic treason, you will be removing his name too.
caption…
“Heh…everything I do makes me look like sh!t…heh heh…”
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:29 pmElBruce Says:
Totally off-topic, here’s Kiefer Sutherland in an interview by the Guardian:
“First off, I’m just going to tell you outright, the problem is not 24. To try and correlate from what’s happening on a television show to what the military is doing in the real world, I think that’s ridiculous.” Does he mean he doesn’t believe the reports of 24’s influence? “Well I haven’t read all those reports. But if that’s actually happening, then the problem that you have in the US military is massive. If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we’ve got a really big problem.” His growl grows heavy with contempt. “If you can’t tell the difference between reality and what’s happening on a made-up TV show, and you’re correlating that back to how to do your job in the real world, that’s a big, big problem.”
There ya go, straight from Jack Bauer’s mouth.
I say name the courthouse after Jack Bauer.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:30 pmWhy do republicans work the hardest on the dumbest, stupidest and most ridiculous things?
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:32 pmTake heed, Texas. When Bush & Company are hauled off to prison for war crimes and domestic treason, you will be removing his name too.
The sign-removal task should create a few jobs. Can you believe these people, Marie? They want to name a courthouse after a man who trashed the constitution and everything it stood for, including the Rule of Law? No. Make that “especially the Rule of Law”?
I would like to know exactly what connection there is to George W. Bush and a courthouse? Any courthouse. He’s been trying his damnedest to stay out of them.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:35 pmI say name the courthouse after Jack Bauer.
I think that might scare the crap out of any defendants. Especially the innocent ones.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:36 pmMidland Texas…No quality of life at all – 5/11/2008
“I have lived many places in the US and none of them come close to the misery of living in Midland-Odessa, West Texas. This town takes stupidity, incompetence and the phrase ‘Hell Hole’ to a new level. I had the misfortune of living here for 18 months and I never knew just how bad and how miserable a town could turn someone’s life in to. The simplest, most common things become a nightmare when living in Midland.
To start, eating out is a sheer waste of time, money and mental stability. Not one restaurant was able to provide any level of customer service. Wrong orders, cold food, terrible service and incompetent staff ensure your dining experience is one you will never forget. From major restaurant chains to locally owned, customer service left Midland for another galaxy.
I have driven in New York, Chicago, L.A. and Houston and the driving there is absolute pleasure compared to Midland. Not one person in this town can drive without cutting you off, changing lanes at the last minute and thinking there doing nothing wrong. Great house elementary has mothers dropping kids off or picking them up all just to try and cause an accident. So many of them would try and run you off the road, pull out in front of you when you had right of way etc. The loop (Loop 250) is terrible, with every inbred redneck waiting until the last second before ramming you off the road for the next exit. I had a 7 minute drive to work and it was a nightmare.
Stores. Everything I bought, from furniture to tires to groceries. Nobody could sell anything without it being damaged, incorrectly ordered, not working or past is sell by date. Customer service, again, was none existent. People were so arrogant that they thought they could treat you like garbage and you would still pay up with a smile. The people are vile.
Midland is also a dump. They have an optional litter fee to help clean up the town, but the place looks like one big pigsty. At least in Great house, the garbage was everywhere. Filthy place. Of course, when you didn’t pay the optional litter fee with your water rates, the incompetent idiots in the cities billing department tried to charge you fees for not paying.
Our neighbors all had dogs that barked continuously. Despite city ordinances, which were never enforced, we were rarely able to sleep. So much for you property tax going to work, which was also as high as the local thieving council could possibly assess your home for.
Midland is close to nowhere and is literally the a** end of Texas. It earns this reputation as well. The people are unfriendly, arrogant and completely without any pride in what the do or who they are. I urge anyone who is considering moving here to think again. L.A., New Orleans – freaking Baghdad would be a better choice than this miserable hole.”
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:36 pmoops, forgot to add the credit…
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:39 pmthat was from “Sperling’s BestViews”, a relocation website…
Texas justice is as phoney as Bush.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:40 pmOh those silly conservatives. Next thing you know they’ll be wanting to give Don Rumsfeld a Humanities award or their friends in the NRA will be starting up a new firearms safety program named after Dick Cheney. Egads — the buffoonery never ends with this crowd.
Just saying . . .
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:44 pmFinally a Court where the Guilty are innocent and Crimes pays. Yes will the Court be proud of the name GW when he’s charged with War Crimes by the Internation Court. Any respectible Judge who honor’s the Justice System should be ashame to work in any Court named by the Worse President in the History of the United States.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:47 pmWhere the hell is that bust’s flag pin?
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:58 pmThere is absolutely no correlation between justice & Chimpy W. Bush.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:58 pmIt looks likes someone actually managed to put a shine on that turd in the photo. Wait ’til spring, it will return to it’s natural state — a puddle of poo.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:03 pmthe bronze bust
has no eyes.
;)
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:03 pm43 should be glad they named a sewer treatment plant after him. i thought it was both very becoming and generous for them to do so.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:06 pmWhy name the courthouse after Bush? Is there something terribly wrong with it?
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:09 pmAgree with the sentiments here. It’s Texas so not surprising and honestly couldn’t care less what they do in Texas because they’re all friggin’ nuts anyway.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 pmlet me tell you. if i ever had a court date in a courthouse named after 43, i would hightail it out of the state. you know they’d torture your arse gitmo-style in the holding cell.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 pmYou’re giving Texans way too much credit if you think a war crimes charge would make them change the poorly chosen name to anything else.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:16 pmWhat’s the surprise..?!!
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:16 pmIn Texas there are schools named after Bush the father,Ronald Reagan..and even a school in Houston named after mother Barbara Bush…,another one in San Antonio also named after her.
This is to raise a whole new ganeration that is going to be in love with Republicans in general,and the Bushes in particular.
But I’m still waiting to see a square named after Bush,Jr. downtown Baghdad by jubilant and freed Iraqis, as Chief NeoCon Richard Perle once said the Iraqis will do.
Midland TX?
Really?
If he’d settle for that, and then just go ghe phuque away, it’d be a small price to pay.
Sheeit, you ever been to Midland, TX? Prob’ly second only to Waco for “Top Shithole In Texas.”
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:20 pmAre there any schools named after JFK?
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:23 pmrealpatriot Says:
Are there any schools named after JFK?
My elementary school was named after JFK. Which is kind of odd considering I’m in Mexico.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:24 pmWho would name a school after that frightened John Faux Kerry fellow that lingers about these parts stuck on bold despite not being bold enough to engage?
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:29 pmBlasphemy, plain and simple.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:31 pmNothing surprises me about these people,even naming a library after Joe The Plumber.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:31 pmLet’s come to a bipartisan compromise. They can name the courthouse after Bush if they have a video playing of someone being waterboarded.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:36 pmI think it would be more fitting to name a Chucke-E-Cheese after these clowns.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:37 pmI think every dump and sewer treatment plant should be named after Bush and his buddies, that way future generations will know exactly what this administration produced.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:42 pmProblem is that there are no longer any dumps. Still can we name all the “sanitary landfills” after him?
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:47 pmwell, the SCLM has managed again to change the subject…
this headline from google news:
“I think I made a mistake” on Daschle, Obama says
CNN – 57 minutes ago
(CNN) — President Obama joined CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday to discuss the withdrawal of Tom Daschle as health and human services secretary-designate and the state of the US economy.
no, according to this morning’s news, he was SUPPOSED to be selling the economic recovery and investment package during this media blitz…
i think the obama team and the DNC did not get the plans out on the teevee machines early and often enough…
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:48 pmi remember the original message that this was planned, but i didn’t hear much since – from the dems…
the rushcons just bulldozed on ahead with the b.s. as usual…
The expression of the bronze bust does convey a vacancy above the brow ridge.
Well done,
- Tom
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:54 pmyep. see, rachel’s take on it too…
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:03 pmmedia preoccupied with daschle…
I’ll bet that courthouse is a real shithole, every courthouse I’ve been in has seemed like a shithole to me. So, let the baby have his bottle
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:11 pmGo ahead, name a Midland, Texas shithouse after Bush. I promise, I’ll drive in to see it…
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:14 pmWhat is it with Republicans that they can not even wait for the f**k to die before name something after him.
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:57 pmI hope they do. Hope they rename the entire state after this war criminal. We need to always remember what state gave us that nightmare.
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:57 pmJeez wasn’t that sewage plant in California enough?
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:11 pmWell, after surviving the eight years that future historians will simply refer to as, The Terror, I suppose a little trash talk about Texas was inevitable, but it’s time to tap the brakes my Democratic brethren. Remember, the Bush cancer may have started here, but it needed interstate cooperation to metastasize. So bag the cheap shots and consider all the money and votes that insurgent Texans smuggled north during the Battle for BHO, not to mention all the bar fights we got into and eventually lost over that movie that came out in the 90’s, The Big Lewinsky.
Hate The Political Whore, Not the Whorehouse.
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:15 pmembarassement
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That said let’s move on to the some moron part shall we?
Can we get a little Never_Crushed_Anything curriculum vitae action over here?
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:18 pmDenial ain’t a river in Eygpt.
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:24 pm–
I didn’t realize that there were really people that said this sort of lame type stuff. I am very impressed by this. It sort of reminds me of those Greek meatheads that used to say ” It is a fraternity not a frat, you wouldn’t call your country a cunt”. Damn those idiots where idiots. Still I agree they had some serious denial issues going on as to their imagined coolness. Can you relate Hippie_Crusher?
Some of the most polluted air, land and water in the country; Midland is the perfect symbol of Bush’s legacy.
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:27 pmdbadass Says:
I didn’t realize that there were really people that said this sort of lame type stuff.
i thought the highjacked “Epic Fail” was interesting…
not an original thought in their little heads…
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:31 pmPolitics under the overly long run of the Democrat and Republican party has turned government into a fantasyland. They don’t understand how many people are sick of them and on to them. They want to do something truly constructive with Bush’s image? Etch his portrait in the bottom of urinals. That would give the patrons something to aim at and make a little less work for the custodian.
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:41 pmPerhaps they just want to name the restroom in the courthouse the GW Bush memorial Stall #3. But it would never have enough toilet paper…
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:20 pmHey, that statue…is that the target at the shoe-throwing practice range?
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 pmbelac Says:
ElBruce Says:
I don’t get it, why would any town want to name their courthouse “f**kwad?”
read in a squinty Bush voice:
Hey, that’s Mr. f**kwad to you buddy, and the courthouse is gonna be called The Decider’s House of Awesome, where names get took and cages get shook, heh heh.
It would be better to name that courthouse “Constitution,” so the namers could pay lip service to the repuke concept that Shrub actually abode by it.
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:40 pmJinkies, I can only pray that BHO can quit setting up “epic failure” targets for Hippie_Crusher. His rapier-like sarcasm, shredded my faith and then my hope as if they were vaporous. I confess, my heart fears for the self -confidence of President Obama.
Boy, it sure is a good thing they can’t put cabinet nominees in prison for not losing a couple of skyscrapers, a major southern port and Bin Laden, before sailing the U.S.S. Voodoo Economics into an iceberg colored lighthouse.
hippie crusher? – do you find your prey or your dates amongst the homeless geriatric population?
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:52 pmPeorgieTirebiter says: Remember, the Bush cancer may have started here, but it needed interstate cooperation to metastasize
Bloggers who keep slamming Texas when they know little about it except that Shrub once ruled there are the “Bozos on this Bus.”
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:54 pmWho are the Texas Democrats that voted to help with this sterling effort? How do you resurrect a corpse? Shame on them. Texans or not they should know better. Although if they knew better they would not live in Texas. They are actually Republicans.
February 4th, 2009 at 12:26 amBesides, if the bridge club ever finishes that bridge over the Rio Grande instead of poppin’ off at Pop’s Sodium Shop, we’ll have a enough new Democrats to turn the yellows and reds and redheads liberal blue before the next election.
February 4th, 2009 at 12:51 amP.S. Don’t crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers. p.t.
PeorgieTirebiter 10-4 on the pliers. “In the beginning there were hot lumps. . . cold and lonely. . . they whirled aimlessly through the silent halls of space”. . . and they became Republicans.
February 4th, 2009 at 12:57 amName the State of Texas after Bush and it still won’t help him repair his legacy. He is the most disrespected President in history. In fact his entire 8 years in that venerated office was an expensive JOKE. I’m beginning to wonder if Democracy isn’t also a joke. Obama’s government is having it’s share of political upheaval. But at least, Obama can put together a sentence and he seems to believe his own message. Obama thinks that Republicans will eventually step up to the plate and cooperate. I think he’s dreaming. They will never knuckle under no matter what the consequences. They are self serving criminals and should be treated as such.
February 4th, 2009 at 1:16 am.
In times where up is down, in is out and the right is correct, how fitting that a court house be named after the most lawless, war criminal of a president this Nation has ever seen. I say let them name it after George Worst Bush as a fitting reminder for generations to come, that it was this man, George Worst Bush, who destroyed Justice not only in America but it’s effects world wide.
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February 4th, 2009 at 2:31 am#60 RUCerious,
February 4th, 2009 at 2:33 amThey could trade toilet paper with copies of the Constitution.
People shouldn’t bother to advertise Bush in a favorable way.
Bush is simply the worst president ever, and everybody knows it.
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February 4th, 2009 at 3:50 amHippielicker Says:
My GOD you are ignorant beyond belief. No you cant help anyone with reality since you arent aquainted with it and wouldnt know it if it kicked you in the nuts. You are such an ignorant punk. Ok so the hippies were so much smarter and cooler than you. They got the girls but you cant blame them. You are stupid. You are a pathetic loser. EVERYONE is cooler than you and no real women are ever going to give you the time of day. Get used to being a pathetic ignorant moron. It is your fate in life
February 4th, 2009 at 7:39 amhippie crusher lobbies for change in public restrooms
February 4th, 2009 at 8:56 amGive it up HippyLicker. You know nothing of reality and wouldnt recognize it if you caught it having sex with your rubber lady. You are stupid. You are pathetic you are an ignorant brainwashed piece of garbage. So stupid no thought can escape the gravity of your stupidity. You are just a pile of resentments for the normal humans who have showed you up since you were a kid. You are now desperate to pretend you are as good and as smart as someone else. ANYONE else. Unfortunatly for you. You ARENT. You are a moron. Ignorant brainwashed and pathetic. All you can do is repeat whatever Rushclone you have do your thinking for you TOLD you to think. You are pathetic and ignorant and that is all you will ever be
February 4th, 2009 at 9:25 amI keep telling you HippyLicker, though I know you are too stupid to understand the written word which is why you tune into hateradio to find out what you think. You know NOTHING of reality. You are a delusional idiotic punk with the IQ of a carrot. It really isnt our fault you are so stupid. You can keep spewing your ignorance and resentment toward those of us with normal IQs but all it shows is how pathetic you are. You are stupid. YOu are a punk. You are pathetic and you will NEVER be anything else. Pray to evolve I think perhaps if you are lucky you MAY reach the awareness level of pondscum it is a lofty goal for someone as patently ignorant as you but have some faith. It COULD happen you stupid pustulent oozing herpes sore
February 4th, 2009 at 10:03 amHey just name the whole town after him:
War Criminal, Texas
February 4th, 2009 at 11:44 ammaybe the individual courtrooms can be named after addington, gonzales, and yoo too. im sure every poor soul that passes through will feel justice was served after being sentenced to death in that courthouse.
February 4th, 2009 at 1:00 pmHippie_crusher Says:
Let me help you with a heavy dose of reality.
Reality is everywhere. You don’t take it in “doses.” Or at least, whatever it is you’re taking doses of isn’t “reality.”
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Hippie_crusher Says:
Seriously, we’re not even 2 weeks into this debacle and we have Richardson-gate, Geithner-gate, Daschle-gate, Blago-gate, Kilefer-gate…
That’s awesome! You can -gate more things faster than anybody I’ve seen. They don’t even have to be problematic or scandalous in any way. Good for you!
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Hippie_crusher Says:
How do you feel about Ogabe’s HYPOCRISY?
How do you explain these lobbyists?
It’s spelled “Obama,” and there’s no significant hypocrisy that I know of.
Regarding having ex-lobbyists in his administration, there are a few. I think it’s three at present that fall outside of the rule he set up? Each of these has been approved by Obama personally. He established a rule on his employees that they could not hire ex-lobbyists without his personal approval. How many officials worked in the Bush administration who had been lobbyists for the same industries they were supposed to be overseeing? Hundreds? Thousands?
Anyhow, now I’ve explained it to you, so I’m sure you understand and will stop asking that silly question.
February 4th, 2009 at 1:01 pmAll-american incompetence, failure, greed, and lack of restraint solidified in this bronze statue!
February 4th, 2009 at 2:04 pmIn the Shoe Sculpture thread, Janaury 30th.
Quote, sweet quote. Too funny.
February 4th, 2009 at 7:00 pm