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Ladies and gentleman, I give you—The Bushogarchy! We won't even use the word "bagmen", but feel free to think it! Bush calls them Rangers and Pioneers and so forth.)

This re-represents a previous post by farmer in tabular form—naming names to incriminate the guilty:

Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim,	(Pilgrim's Pride)	responsible for a deadly listeria outbreak in 2002 that killed eight people and prompted the biggest meat recall in American history.
Stanley O'Neal	(Merrill Lynch)	In 2002, an investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer forced the firm to fork over $100 million in penalties for fleecing investors with junk stocks
Charles Cawley	(MBNA America Bank)	[Wanted] a new law making it harder for families hit by unemployment or huge medical bills to declare bankruptcy, which would add $75 million a year to MBNA's bottom line.
George Zoley	(Wackenhut Corrections)	In Louisiana, where guards routinely beat and tear-gassed teenage offenders, a Republican judge lambasted GEO for treating children "as if they walked on all fours." In Texas, where male guards molested female inmates, a fourteen-year-old named Sara Lowe committed suicide after her release.
Edward Floyd	(a vascular surgeon who treats patients with cancer)	And a tobaccao grower!
Maurice "Hank" Greenberg	(American International Group)	Ten days after the September 11th attacks, George W. convened a meeting of top insurance executives, including Greenberg, who asked for a taxpayer bailout of insurance companies in the event of a similar attack.
Anthony Alexander	(FirstEnergy)	Illegal emissions, say federal regulators, "have been significant contributors to some of the most severe environmental problems facing the nation today."
Richard Egan	(EMC Corp)	Egan lasted only fifteen months as ambassador, embarrassing the administration by meeting publicly with a convicted murderer linked to Libyan leader Muammar Al-Qaddafi
Ralph Reed	(Christian Coalition)	Among his best-known clients was Enron, an account he landed with the help of Bush political strategist Karl Rove. (Reed told the company he could organize pro-family groups to lobby for utility deregulation -- for a fee of $380,000.)
Peter Secchia	self-described "political operative"	Secchia calls women "bitches" and "big-breasted devils," and in one speech he announced, "I saw the new Italian Navy. Its boats have glass bottoms, so they can see the old Italian Navy." This time around, Secchia says he's a Pioneer out of affection for the younger Bush. "I love the guy," he says. "He and Laura are models of what the presidency is about."

And Secchia is so right. Man, the times they are a changin' ... Political journalism in Rolling Stone? Who knew?

Yeoman also points to Texans for Public Justice and Public Citizen as sources for the most up-to-date material on Bush's bag-men.

Now, some may object that, really, "Bo" Pilgrim didn't kill personally kill eight people—his company, Pilgrim's Pride, did. But since this is the age of personal responsibility, and all that, why not just say that Bo did, and is paying Bush for the privilege of continuing to do so?


UPDATE Readers, sorry for the formatting issues as I was trying to bend blogger to my will. Tables are so useful to present analytical material it really seems like we ought to find some way of formatting them that works. Is there anyone who DOESN'T think that this table is really narrow? I can revert to making the table in another tool and posting a screen dump of it, but that would make the text not searchable. Help!