Friday April 25, 2008
President Bush’s motorcade has paralyzed capital-area traffic this morning, on the way to in his flimsy “business” excuse to take a taxpayer-paid trip to Connecticut.
Late-morning traffic was frozen on I-91 south of Bradley International Airport, for his motorcade to a Boys & Girls Club function in Hartford, where he praised the club’s campaign against malaria.
U.S. Rep. Chris Shays, R-4, came off Air Force One with the president.
Things are so bad for the unpopular president that he finally broke down and publicly admitted in that Texas drawl that he was born in Connecticut to trigger a smattering of applause.
This fluke of the map and calendar occurred back in New Haven just after WWII, when his father was at Yale.
But the president’s main goal Friday was an early afternoon, $1,000-a-head function at Henry Kissinger’s place in Kent, to benefit the congressional candidacy of state Sen. David Cappiello, R-Danbury, who’s trying to unseat freshman U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5.
Kissinger, you’ll recall, was the architect of the “Peace is at Hand” lie in Vietnam for President Richard Nixon in the runup to the 1972 election, when Hammerin’ Henry was secretary of state.
THERE’S a guy who should live in a “compound,” a term of art for an insulated multi-millionaire who’s still considered a war criminal by many around the globe. Bush was getting there by helicopter after motorcading back up to Bradley
Chris Healy, GOP state chairman, told Blog-o-rama yesterday that there’s going to be some kind of split between the state and national Republican parties over the revenue produced by the suddenly malaria-astute president.
It’s $10,000 to have a photo taken with Bush, on top of the $1,000 entry fee.
Nancy DiNardo, the state Democratic chairwoman who still is in denial over the Democrats’ potential for self-destruction in a presidential election year, cackled Friday:
“We hope that President Bush comes back often and continues to pose for pictures with David Cappiello and Chris Shays. With every visit to our state, he will remind the citizens of Connecticut that, if these two individuals are elected to the US Congress, they will carry on Mr.Bush’s failed policies well after he moves out of the White House.”