Can anyone explain how this is not hypocrisy?

[rhino91063]

To remind people, here was how bush treated YOUNG men and women that were caught with illegal drugs.



The Bush administration has begun enforcing a law that denies federal financial aid to college students with drug convictions. In the past, thousands of students simply didn't answer a question about drug offenses on their forms and got aid just the same. Now if they don't answer, the application will be rejected.


Now we will fast forward a couple of years to bush today and what he thought about Rush Limbaugh being caught as an illegal drug user.

"Rush is a great American. I am confident he can overcome any obstacles he faces right now,” George W. Bush was quoted in the Washington Post as telling his staff the other day after Limbaugh’s racist comments on ESPN and the first revelations that Rush was an illegal drug user.


Now can anyone explain why Rush, a man old enough to know better, is a "great american" for doing illegal drugs. Yet young men and women that do the same thing should be denied a college education?????

[Frodo]

1. You missed it - they are consistent...

...Rush is now ineligible for financial aid for college (he still hasn't gone, right?)

[lindashaw]

2. Most things boil down to a matter of money. Rush is rich, and he

has the right friends. Just think of the money the government can save by denying student loans to previous drug users. Of course, then we have to look at how much money it costs to keep a mother drug-dealer or drug addicts in prison. None of this makes sense. Sorry.

[ixion]

4. You're right on one account: it boils down to money

but you miss the point... this is more class warfare. Rich kids who have drug offenses will still be able to get an education. Poor kids who make the same mistake, will be denied that education.

Sorry, but I see great hypocrisy in this.

Non violent drug offenders should not be in prison, and should not be denied an education because of that offense. Denying them an education will only make things worse.

[AmandaRuth]

3. in the rethug world

you are innocent until you run out of money

and besides who cares what we think or even what is right. The rethugs have propaganda outfits for just this purpose. The Heritage Foundation or some other spew unit will come up with spin.

[LTR]

5. Is his niece going to college?

Ehh, never mind. Like she'd be getting financial aid.

[RobinA]

6. Class Warfare

It is absolutely class warfare.

As far as how can Bush makes comments like that while supporting the laws he supports....the man has no ability to equate the two. Here are the limits of his cognitive abilities:

Rush = good
Teenage drug users = bad

End of discussion.

He cannot see the overlap, it's too abstract. Plus, I doubt when he's thinking about Rush taking drugs he even REMEMBERS he supports the financial aid law.

[IrateCitizen]

7. Simple. See the recent Tom Tomorrow.

http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=15842

It explains it all very clearly. Republican consistency.

[rhino91063]

9. Great cartoon

It should be in every paper in America!

[atreides1]

8. The Same Reason...

...that most people who are caught forging a prescription go to jail, not a rehab center, unless your last name is Bush and your father is the governor of Florida.

The rules do not apply to those in the upper classes and their supporters. Look at the CEO's facing charges for fraud, they are just
being thrown to the dogs because unlike Ken Lay they didn't have something on Shrub.

[DealsGapRider]

10. Wait a minute, this law has been on the books for years.

I think it's been around since like 1998 or 1999. Barney Frank is the one who has correctly been tring to overturn it. But I'm almost positive it was signed into law before Bush...occupied the White House.