One theme of the Bushes is the ways the four sons have enriched themselves with the help of various rightwing and foreign sources.  This is a constant including the returning of the favors when possible.  While this arose during the first campaign, a bit, when Harkin was raised but soon disappeared.

Not only brothers were raked over the coals when Democrats were in the presidency but so too were foreign connections and suggestions of dishonorable behavior.  Why not more investigation of this?

One does wonder whether such a "peace bridge" to the far east could bring one closer to generous, lovin' without charge asian prostitutes.  Just a hypothetical.
(If you don't get that, google Neil+divorce case)
At least Billy gave us a nice beer can, and Roger a nice album for future ironists. 

Sheesh, don't you sometimes wonder whether they really do have this genetics all figured out? When you look at something like presidential families, it just gets so wack. Also nature v. nurture. My rational mind is fascinated by all the new developments on that front and tries to keep up with all the stories for the layman (yes, I know CW science lately that they are inextricably and complicately interwined.) But my heart is not ashamed to admit I still do very much appreciate those stories about candidate's moms, and who mom always liked best.

On this particular story, if the enquiring minds would dig, I'd feel safe making a bet they'd find Bandar's name evoked sooner or later.  :-)

p.s. Dems have to be careful about kvetching about anything Moon-related, though. They've been known to partake of the fact that the Rev. gives good party.

In addition to peace bridges to nowhere, and prostitutes http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/11/25/bush.brother.reut),Ol' Neil's been jogging with exiled russian oligarchs in the baltics http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/worldopinionroundup/2005/11/bushs
_brother_a.html#comment-11756464) and lobbying for scientology (http://www.cultnews.com/archives/000342.html).
Then again, Barbara and George HW have always liked the Moonies (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unif
ication/main.htm).
And brother Marvin's had very odd fatal accidents in his driveway (http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/marvinbush.htm)
So a little bit o' Billy Beer is almost charming in hindsight

Todd, you have forgotten that everything changed after 9/11.  Criticizing the president for incompetence, corruption, outright criminality, blatant dishonesty, etc., are for those living in a 9/10 mindset.

Never mind that Bush started getting the kid glove treatment two years before 9/11. 

To artappraiser, who says:  "Dems have to be careful about kvetching about anything Moon-related, though. They've been known to partake of the fact that the Rev. gives good party."

Dems would demonstrate their ability to rise above petty party protectiveness (PPP for short) if they blew whistles, tubas, and other instruments at the Moonies.  They would then give better party by themselves.

It would almost certainly be a rail tunnel.  Presumbaly its purpose would be to bring Siberia's timber and mineral resources to North American markets faster and more efficiently than loading them onto ships.  Or it would, if there was a transportation infrastructure on the Siberian side of the Bering Strait.  That would have to be built, too.  Neil's been cavorting with Russian oligarchs, too, you say?

Meanwhile, China will be building rails north toward those Siberian resources, too.

If it's fifty miles long, it's not much longer than the Chunnel (and Japan has a 50+ mile undersea tunnel as well --- the Japanese tunnel no doubt has similar problems with seismic activity).  As an engineering project, it's not particularly cutting edge.

It's not crazy, but if the Chunnel can't pay for itself, it's hard to imagine this thing doing so. 

Cool!  Then I could commute from my home in MD to a job in Paris.

Also not much covered by the MSM: Neil Bush's investment in a sweatshop/factory (in China?) which suffered the worst-ever fire disaster (with a tragic loss of many lives), due to unsafe conditions and poor practices; his very questionable (to say the least) educational enterprise; and of course his colorful divorce.

Those who claim we have a "liberal media" sure have some explaining to do, given the heavy coverage of other presidential brothers.