Shrub Summary
In Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose's commentary, Shrub, the author outlines George W. Bush's political life from his days as an oil entrepreneur in Midland, working for corporations, and becoming the governor of Texas. The overall purpose of Molly Ivins is to give the future president a background of what he has done in Texas that would make it scary to the next leader of the free world. In the introduction, Ivins suggests, "The first is to look at the record. The second is to look at the record. And third, look at the record." One of the first accountable and mysterious records was when Bush was able to fly F-102s in the Texas Air National Guard. He was assigned to one of the safest plane missions to deter himself from going to Vietnam. Unlike some of the poor children and with the development of Project 100,000 to accept Southern black children to participate in the war, the powerful and wealthy people in the state of Texas prevented the rich young males from going to Vietnam. Despite Bush's lowest score on the pilots test, he was selected from 150 out of a waiting list of 100,000 people applying for the position. However, despite the minimum scores, junior used the name "Bush" effectively" because his father was a Congressman for
In the conclusion of Shrub, Ivins and Dubose claims that there would not be anything significant done in his presidency. The authors have contested Bush's leadership such as his uninterested approach to policy, which is run by the staff members. It is sarcastically mentioned that Bush was trying to act "presidential" by being interested in issues in the world. Moreover, his proposed legislations like privatizing welfare and privatizing pollution have all been flat and ridiculous. With Bush's lack of interest, then they addressed that people should not expect much out of him. From a history of partying, women, drugs, sex, and alcohol, George W. Bush tells his personal story of becoming a Christian. Reverend Billy Graham, a close family member, talked to Bush if he was "right to God". Miraculously, after Bush's fortieth birthday, he instantly changed as he stopped alcohol and attended bible study groups. With Bush's personal story of conversion, he has won the hearts of the evangelistic people and a good advantage for his political purposes. Since Bush has been affiliated with the Christian right, according to Olasky and Magnet claims that, his political ideology is "compassionate conservatism", which means "biblical and ideological justification for further dismantling what remains of the social-welfare safety net." "Dubya" was involved in sports, especially with the Texas Rangers. Bush acquired two percent of the team for only $640,000 and in the clause of the contract; he would get eleven percent if the other investors obtained their initial investment. While a part owner of the team, there was proposal for a new stadium. He went out to at the city of Arlington to fund the baseball stadium for the team. The team needed land for the baseball feed and supported private property rights to people whenever the government needed a construction. What contradicted his belief was when he used the taxation powers and eminent domain. The Mathes family owned the empty field that the owners wanted. The Texas Rangers' owners got the land and had to settle in court with the cheapest price one could find one could buy for the land. At the end, when the team was successful, George W. Bush sold his part ownership by $15 million. He invested with little amount of money to make his millions out of the taxpayers. Bush Jr. also ran for Texas Congressional seat. However, all plans were broken after one of his volunteers, "goofed up" by running a "Bush Bash" political rally. The bash was to invite college students at Texas Tech to vote for
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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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