It's Too Soon, Really...

Bush 41 and Bush 43 Worry Trump Is Blowing Up the G.O.P.

A new book on the two Bushes who served in the White House provides a glance at their apprehension over Mr. Trump’s rise to power and what it means for the country. The first book ever written with their cooperation about their relationship, it also opens a window into the only father-and-son tandem to hold the presidency since John Adams and John Quincy Adams.

In “The Last Republicans,” Mark K. Updegrove chronicles an era that feels almost dated in today’s reality-show politics, when the Republican establishment controlled the party and Washington, and when a single family could occupy the presidency and vice presidency for a combined 20 years.

Neither of the two Republican former presidents voted for Mr. Trump — the father voted for Hillary Clinton and the son voted for “none of the above,” as he told Mr. Updegrove.

Sorry, George Jr.
America is still paying the price for the Bush-era mistakes, from the hanging chads to the purple-finger promises; open borders to a wrecked economy...

You broke it; Trump bought it -- fair and square.
Go home and paint your toes in the bathtub.  It's too soon to think that the young people coming up have no sense of history, and that we've forgotten what your reign really cost us. #NeverForget

(The trouble with George W. is that he is a perpetual boy.  Trump is a man, for all his perceived faults.  Therein lies the difference...)

Barbara Bush told Mr. Updegrove that she believed Mr. Cheney changed because of his health troubles, including a heart attack followed by a stent operation shortly after the 2000 election. “I do think he was different,” she said. “I think his heart operation made a difference. I always liked him, but I didn’t like him so much for a while because I thought he hurt George. I wasn’t that fond of him. I think he pushed things a little too far right.”

The younger Mr. Bush resented the implication that anyone was steering him. “The fact that there was any doubt in anyone’s mind about who the president was blows my mind,” he said. He added that Mr. Cheney and Donald H. Rumsfeld, his defense secretary, “didn’t make one fucking decision.”

So quoted in the NYTimes, talking tough...
Go home already, son.