Two Party Opera by Brian Carroll for December 01, 2018

Very nice, Mr. Carroll.

I think of him as the last Republican who momentarily put country above party … thus ending his career.

I’ve looked back through and I believe he was the only Vice President to sussed his President without Death in the Twentieth Century.

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Though he was sometimes on the wrong side of history (civil rights and Nixon), he never failed to be a genuine human being, with decency and grace. He will be missed, like the America he represented.

I didn’t care much for him at the time, but in retrospect, he was a class act.

The coverage will be wall to wall – until trump realizes no one’s talking about him, and says or does something crazy. Again.

Enough said!

Why were the most honest and moral presidents of my generation only one-term presidents.

“But where is it written that we must act as if we do not care, as if we are not moved? Well I am moved. I want a kinder, gentler nation.”

Less than two years later, George H.W. Bush took the U.S. into the Gulf War.

Bush also said he wanted to “be known as the education president.”

In 2011, Valerie Strauss of The Washington Post asked a wide range of education and public policy experts which White House occupant they thought might qualify for that title. The elder Bush did not stand out for them in any respect beyond his instrumental role slamming children with national testing standards and tying school performance to funding.

You’ll have to pardon me if I don’t shed any tears at the passing of George H.W.

There’s another funeral Mr. Trump won’t be invited to.

@Radish

“He was an Obama backer”.

De mortuis nil nisi bonum.

Requiescat in pace.

Here are a couple of selections from Wikipedia about Bush’s early political career:

Bush’s career in politics began in 1963 when he was elected chairman of the Harris County, Texas Republican Party. The following year, he ran against incumbent Democrat Ralph W. Yarborough in the U.S. Senate race. He presented himself as a young Conservative Republican in contrast to the aging liberal Democrat Yarborough. He campaigned against civil rights legislation pending before Congress, stating that he believed it gave too much power to the federal government.

Bush and the Harris County Republicans played a role in the development of the new Republican Party of the late 20th century. First, Bush worked to absorb the John Birch Society members, who were trying to take over the Republican Party. Second, during and after the civil rights movement, Democrats in the South who were committed to segregation left their party, and although the “country club Republicans” had differing ideological beliefs, they found common ground in hoping to expel the Democrats from power.

So yeah, he did have a role (even if minor at the time) in the devolution of the GOP.

If you sleep with dogs, expect fleas.

I think it’s rude to speak ill of the dead. I never voted for him and wasn’t a fan, but I though he was a respectable person. He was the last of a generation that believed that service was noble and not something fools do.

I miss that.

He and Nancy were running things during Ronnie Raygun’s second term. His was basically RR’s third term. Just kinder and gentler on the outside and meaner and nastier in the backside. Don’t forget, while he was getting shot down in the Pacific his father was doing business with Hitler via Sweden.

Someone needs to poke Tom Brokaw and remind him that Jimmy Carter is still alive. He’s reporting Bush 41 as “the last president of the Greatest Generation”. …and Brokaw wrote a book about it…good grief.

I seem to remember a similar discussion earlier this year: The man’s politics vs. his decorum. I think it safe to say, most of us here disagree with the man’s politics, but let’s tip the hat, and shed a tear, that perhaps one of the last Republicans to believe in civil discourse, has passed.

The wrong President died!

No new comic for Sunday or today (Monday)?

May President George H.W. Bush rest in peace. Not all leaders are who we want or who we need.