Baker, Bush family janitor

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James Baker
The Bush family janitor.
By David Plotz
Posted Friday, Nov. 17, 2000, at 5:30 PM PT

The Wise Men have arrived. They have traveled by night from the west to save the Son (one junior or the other), bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and chad. The Gore campaign disinterred former Secretary of State Warren Christopher and shipped him cross-country to rescue the veep. George W. Bush countered by dispatching a former secretary of state of his own, James Baker.

Dubya already depends on dad's other advisers to tell him what to think. So it's unsurprising he finally called on Baker, the Bushie di tutti Bushies, for help. The Florida rescue mission is redemption for the 70-year-old Baker. Barbara Bush and George W. blamed Baker for running President Bush's 1992 campaign into the ground. (Barbara reportedly called Baker "The Invisible Man" for his lackadaisical effort in the closing weeks.) But now that the Bushes are desperate again, Baker has been summoned from obscurity—advising merchant banks, negotiating for the United Nations in Western Sahara—to save them one more time.


Baker's parachute mission has prompted the expected outpouring of gush. Gov. Bush tongue-bathed him for his "impeccable credentials and integrity." The Baker-philic press echoed the praise. Baker has responded with his usual pomposity. He has gone before the nation to warn us that Gore's vote challenges are embarrassing the United States abroad, that the dragged-out election is a "danger to democracy," and that Gore should bow out for "the good of the country."

The Bush campaign is counting on Baker's image as a statesman to advance Dubya's claim to the presidency. Don't you dare call Baker a mere politician. The Washington establishment considers him the greatest of all Republican mandarins. A child of the Texas aristocracy, he prepped in the East and graduated Princeton, then returned to practice corporate law in Houston. In 1970, he signed up as Bush the Father's right-hand man, a job he has held—on and off, often bitterly—ever since.

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Baker is more than a janitor. He is the one that force fed us Shrub!:puke:

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1. As long as Bush the father has been around Baker has

Baker has had to pull Bush's buns out of the fire over and over. Now it is the sons turn.The Bush people are always in trouble when this guy moves in. They even took him from Sec, of State to try and save father Bush. I have been saying this, we will know Bush is in trouble when they drag in Baker and here he is.