In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Bush Family Update
With our constant picking on Jeb and George, I felt bad that we weren’t picking on the S&L wonder boy: Neil Bush more (poor Marvin doesn’t get mentioned again). Well according to Fu**ked Company, Neil’s little company “Ignite Learning” seems to have just missed its second payroll in a roll. This is also the 8th time this year they missed payroll. Well besides Neil’s Ignite getting a lot of business from the state of Florida (I wonder why?), I really don’t know much about it.
So I went to their website, and checked out their wares a bit and came across this:
Jefferson didn’t think of himself as an antifederalist:
If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore I protest to you I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much farther from that of the Antifederalists.
The Antifederalists weren’t happy with the constitution and tried to stop its ratification, but when it was they were instrumental in getting the bill of rights passed, so in that part Jefferson definityly might of hung out with them, but I don’t see that making him an antifederalist.
Here’s what I found on important Antifederalists :
A loose alliance of politicians and citizens in 1787-88 who supported strong state governments and opposed ratification of the Constitution. Antifederalists agreed that the proposed Constitution would give the national government too much power. They felt that the state governments would become too weak and the national government too removed from local conditions, resulting in a loss of freedom. Some Antifederalists opposed the Constitution because it did not have a bill of rights; others, remembering their experience as British colonists, opposed the federal government's having the power to tax. Leading Antifederalists included Patrick Henry, George Mason, and James Monroe of Virginia, Samuel Adams and Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, Robert Yates and George Clinton of New York, and Samuel Chase of Maryland. Despite their defeat, they prevailed in the matter of securing a set of amendments guaranteeing individual liberties; Congress framed the Bill of Rights in 1789, and all states had ratified them by 1791.
Anyway, I’m just saying that maybe having our kids educated by members of the Bush family isn’t a great idea. I mean it seems to me that graphic above is calling Jefferson a liar.
Here’s another graphic from their website:
Well now we know that Bush is a Federalist and not a Republican, I guess Neil can be informative.
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