What does it mean? Every time I see it, I rack my brains trying to get the meaning.
Is it just childish name calling like saying Shrub instead of Bush, or does it have a meaning to it?
Is it saying that Bush and his administration act like a business?
Does it have something to do with Chaney’s connection to Enron?
Thanks.
The implication is that the Bush administration is overly beholden to business interests, and/or that they operate the executive branch for the benefit of corporations, especially those with which they have personal or financial connections. Dick Cheney has no particular association with Enron – he was with Halliburton; it is the President himself who had a close friendship with Enron’s CEO.
Halliburton :smack: That’s right.
Anyway, thanks for the explination, I thought it might be something like that.
When Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney first got into office, Mr. Cheney convened a group of executives of the energy business to form the Bush administration’s energy policy. Yes, it included Ken Lay of Enron. Despite demands from both houses of congress, despite Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, the administration has steadfastly refused to release any information from those meetings.
When Mr. Bush was governor of Texas, he let the state’s biggest polluters write the pollution control rules. They were voluntary. Critics say the same pattern continues in the Bush presidency.
When the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq happened, an unprecedented amount of formerly military work was contracted to private firms. Critics say the usual bidding process was bypassed to hire the firms that got the jobs.
That might be why some folks call this administration “Bushco.” I don’t use the word myself, and I don’t use Mike Malloy’s much ruder phrase, which I won’t repeat here.
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I forgot which forum I was in. I should not have said that here.
Sorry.