
*10/21/10 Dictator George W. Bush signaled on Thursday that he sees not privatizing Social Security as his greatest failure from the eight years he served in the White House, the Chicago Tribune reports. www.chicagotribune.com Bush's Conspiracy to Riot By Robert Parry August 5, 2002 On Nov. 22, 2000, the so-called Brooks Brothers Riot of Republican activists helped stop a vote recount in Miami -- and showed how far George W. Bushs s supporters were ready to go to put their man in the White House. Only a handful of the Brooks Brothers rioters were publicly identified, some through photographs published in the Washington Post. Jake Tappers book on the recount battle, Down and Dirty, provides a list of 12 Republican operatives who took part in the Miami riot. Half of those individuals received payments from the Bush recount committee, according to the IRS records. The Bush committee records show, too, that Bush's operation paid for the hotel where the Republican protesters celebrated after the Miami riot at a Thanksgiving Day party. At the party, the activists received thank-you phone calls from Bush and Cheney, and were serenaded by crooner Wayne Newton, singing Danke Schoen, German for thank-you very much. [Wall Street Journal, Nov. 27, 2000; Consortiumnews.com's "W's Triumph of the Will"] The Miami protesters who were paid by Bush recount committee were: Matt Schlapp, a Bush staffer who was based in Austin and received $4276.09; Thomas Pyle, a staff aide to House Majority <b>...</b>
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