Bushite

comparative more Bushite · superlative most Bushite

1. Synonym of Bushian.

   From Gleneagles, Blair’s immediate response to the bombings had been predictably Bushite.

   2005, Tariq Ali, Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror, →ISBN, page 49

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   It remains to be seen if this false evidence discredits Bush, if it alienates Tony Blair from joining in Bush’s Iraq adventure (there were reports that he was deeply embarrassed to buy into the “new evidence” scam), or if it becomes an issue that the Bushite Jihad Warriors will be confronted with at all, or if, like other of their lies and misdeeds, it will just pass away in silence.

   2003, Douglas Kellner, From 9/11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy, →ISBN, pages 251–252

   In contrast to Bushite flat-Earthers and shills for the oil industry, their skepticism has been founded on fears that the IPCC models fail to adequately allow for catastrophic nonlinearities such as the Younger Dryas.

   2005 October 7, Mike Davis, “Melting, melting”, in Los Angeles Times

   Only two criteria applied for a job in the Bush administration: You were on daily speaking terms with god and you were a Bushite loyalist[…].

   2007, Francis X. Callahan, Does W Stand for Worst?: The Record of G. W. Bush, →ISBN, page 31

   In the age of the Bushite version of Orwellian “double-speak”, all things are useful maintaining or expanding the imperial presidency’s power.

   2007, “Bush’s Need to Use Violence: Alters Being Led by Alters (by Jerrold Atlas)”, in The Journal of Psychohistory, page 11

   To look at it from another aspect, George Bush talks about destroying evil. But that is a very unorthodox view for a Christian.[…]I think the idea of destroying evil has reappeared in the heterodox, unorthodox form of Christianity that modern Bushite Christian fundamentalists represent.

   2008, Mick Gordon, Chris Wilkinson, Conversations on Religion, →ISBN, page 96

   Synonyms: Bushian

plural Bushites

1. Synonym of Bushie (US, politics) A political supporter or fan of U.S. President Bush (either Bush 43, or Bush 41, or both Presidents George Bush)

   How can a Labour Prime Minister adopt the position of a neo-conservative Bushite so rapidly, and with such fervent conviction?

   2005, Tariq Ali, Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror, →ISBN, page 3

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   Pessimism was heresy in Bushland—the relentlessly upbeat Karl Rove wouldn’t hear of it. But BC04 staffers were beginning to confess to each other, though not very loudly, their qualms. They began to have impermissible feelings of unease and defeatism. “Everyone just had that feeling within themselves,” a Bushite told a Newsweek reporter in June. She said it quietly.

   2004, Evan Thomas, with reporting by the staff of Newsweek, Election 2004: How Bush Won and What You Can Expect in the Future, →ISBN, page 75

   The Bush-era celebrates double-speak in all that it does—laws have lovely names denying the reality of what they’re doing, whatever’s said by a Bushite means the opposite and all political statements must be read to recognize how the Bushites are doing/planning/seeking exactly the opposite.

   2007, “Bush’s Need to Use Violence: Alters Being Led by Alters (by Jerrold Atlas)”, in The Journal of Psychohistory, page 10

   Synonyms: Bushie