Bush Baghdad trip distracts media from black sheep brother By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles for independent.co.uk news

[T]he sight of the President serving Thanksgiving turkey to the troops has also served to overshadow – at least for the moment – a catalogue of potential political embarrassments created by his younger brother. Neil Bush caused trouble for their father, President Bush the first, more than a decade ago because of his role in the collapse of a savings and loan company that ended up costing American taxpayers $1.3bn (£750m). Now he is in trouble again, largely as a result of the startling revelations from a highly acrimonious divorce. …

Potentially more damaging revelations – certainly for the Oval Office – concern business rather than pleasure, and the strong impression that Neil might have taken brazen advantage of his membership of America’s most powerful political family to make a killing on business deals. …

Whether any of this might damage the President or not, it adds to a conviction that the Bush family has been trading off its political connections for years.

So, Duhbya’s little brother cheats on his wife, sleeps with numerous prostitutes, takes large sums from others for nothing more than access. Where is the moral outrage of the holier-than-thou Right? Or are they too busy planning to run Neil after Jeb’s 8 years in the White House? mjh
(Thanks to Jas. for the news)

Newsday.com – President’s Brother Has $2m Contract In China By Warren Vieth and Lianne Hart, LOS ANGELES TIMES

Neil Bush, a younger brother of President George W. Bush, has a $400,000-a-year contract to provide business advice to a Chinese computer chip manufacturer, according to court documents. …

“There’s certainly the appearance of influence being sought,” said Charles W. McMillion, a Washington business consultant who advised a congressional commission on U.S.-China policy. “If nothing else, it doesn’t look good.” …

[T]he president’s brother acknowledged that he knew little about the industry he had just joined.

A Bush in Bed With Beijing? from The Daily Outrage, by Matt Bivens, The Nation

Now consider the case of Neil Bush — the former president’s son, current president’s brother — whose frank admissions in court testimony to screwing around in Thailand and Hong Kong, and taking huge sums of money from Chinese political players for murky services, are somehow barely even news — much less front-page, what-the-heck, what-does-Congress-think news.