$500 million George W. Bush Library and Think Tank - pure comedy gold

[Revtim]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/475052p-399492c.html

Eager to begin refurbishing his tattered legacy, the President hopes to raise $500 million to build his library and a think tank at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

This may be richest vein of pure comedy since Monica Lewinsky.

Let’s some of the more obvious ones out of the way:

$500 million! That’s a lot of coloring books!

Will there be a “My Pet Goat” wing?

Refurbish his tattered legacy? I’m not sure $500 million is going to cut it…

<rim shot>

[MovieMogul]

Given his paranoid obssession with secrecy, it makes you wonder how much of his administration’s administration will be deposited there.

Given his obvious disinclination toward reading itself, it makes you wonder how many of his preferred literary selections will be deposited there as well.

Maybe they’re using the term “library” quite loosely.

[Revenant_Threshold]

What’s a think tank in this context? I’m not making a bash, just wondering what it is they’ll be pondering… is it the same kind of thing as the PNAC?

[Napier]

“You mean, he’s going to start reading NOW?!”

[A.R.Cane]

@Revenant Threshold

What’s a think tank in this context? I’m not making a bash, just wondering what it is they’ll be pondering… is it the same kind of thing as the PNAC?

Plagiarism?

[Marley23]

To the irritation of some patrons, all the librarians will be kept in an undisclosed location.

First volume to be removed from circulation: Sex, by John Ashcroft.

“What did the President read, and when did he read it?”

Second volume to be removed from circulation: Hop on Pop, by Lynndie England.

In 100 years, Geraldo’s descendents will go to a vault in the library’s basement, hoping to find Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction.

@Revenant Threshold

What’s a think tank in this context? I’m not making a bash, just wondering what it is they’ll be pondering… is it the same kind of thing as the PNAC?

According to the article…

Patterned after Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Bush’s institute will hire conservative scholars and “give them money to write papers and books favorable to the President’s policies,” one Bush insider said.

…it’s going to sponsor a lot of fiction.

[Squink]

I understand that the institute will feature everlasting hashpipes in the ‘de Toqueville’ reading room; a salute to the French and Bush’s college days.

[Mindfield]

@Marley23

According to the article…

…it’s going to sponsor a lot of fiction.

Hey, wait. Didn’t this already happen a few decades ago in Germany? Some guy who paid a lot of money to have politically biased literature written and distributed to the people? I think they did a few films, too…

[OttoDaFe]

@Revenant Threshold

What’s a think tank in this context? I’m not making a bash, just wondering what it is they’ll be pondering… is it the same kind of thing as the PNAC?

My first WAG was something like this.

(Or maybe a sensory-deprivation tank, since that seems consistent with his level of connection to the “reality-based” universe).

[if6was9]

Patterned after Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Bush’s institute will hire conservative scholars and “give them money to write papers and books favorable to the President’s policies,” one Bush insider said.

I know this is MPSIMS, but that is just frightening.

“We’ve never been at war with Afghanistan, we’ve always been at war with Iraq.”

[FairyChatMom]

I understand it’s going to be called the George W. Bush Presidential Liberry.

At least according to (I think) Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me …

[Quiddity_Glomfuster]

Bush’s institute will hire conservative scholars and “give them money to write papers and books favorable to the President’s policies,” one Bush insider said.

Translated: “We’ll be rewriting history in an attempt to make Bush look intelligent.”

I think that would require more money than the current US national debt.

[Rysdad]

Maybe at the grand opening he’ll sign some copies of what he thinks is his biography: Curious George.

[jjimm]

What’s the guessing that at the opening ceremony, he’ll call it by the name my wife’s rather dim ex-colleague in Dublin always used to use: “tink thank”.

[Ukulele_Ike]

@Quiddity Glomfuster

Translated: “We’ll be rewriting history in an attempt to make Bush look intelligent.”

I think that would require more money than the current US national debt.

Now, hold on just a minute!

Fifteen years ago we all KNEW **Ronald Reagan ** was a malevolent fucking moron, and now he’s been turned into the Greatest President Since George Washington Except for Maybe Abraham Lincoln.

Do not underestimate the power of the Republican Propaganda Machine.

[dalej42]

Ugh, I might be the closest Doper to this nightmare.

Interesting how the President George H W Bush turnpike is now the George Bush Turnpike.

I never drive on that road.

[ParentalAdvisory]

Wasn’t Clinton’s around like ~160m? Damn inflation…

[Scissorjack]

He thought they said “Drunk Tank”, and figured, well, it worked for Betty Ford…

[tomndebb]

Let’s see, that would be $499,999,999.01 for the buliding and the rest for the book?

[What_Exit]

@Ukulele Ike

Now, hold on just a minute!

Fifteen years ago we all KNEW **Ronald Reagan ** was a malevolent fucking moron, and now he’s been turned into the Greatest President Since George Washington Except for Maybe Abraham Lincoln.

Do not underestimate the power of the Republican Propaganda Machine.

Bush hating Republican here.

I never thought Reagan was a malevolent fucking moron. I do think his faculties went downhill swiftly in the second term, but in the first term he put in motion the pieces that renewed American strength and ended the cold war.

I know this is an unpopular belief on the SDMB, but it seems more like revisionist history to me that Reagan did not at least successfully do this. If you want to condemn his environmental policies led by James Watt and his de-regulation policies, I am right there with you.

He actually appointed some damn good Supreme Court Justices. Sandra Day O’Connor in particular should be enough to disprove the malevolent part. Anthony Kennedy has a good record for being fair minded and even if you hate his conservative stance, most would concede that William Rehnquistwas a good Chief Justice of the United States.

Back to the George W. Bush Library. I am sure it will include a DIY book on better hunting techniques by Cheney.

Jim