Bushite

English

Etymology

From Bush +‎ -ite.

Adjective

Bushite (comparative more Bushite, superlative most Bushite)

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

     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.

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

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

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

     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.

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

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

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

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

     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.

   • 2009 January, “The mystification of change (by James Bowman)”, in The New Criterion, page 59, column 2:

     Candidate Obama himself exceeded all his rivals in denouncing them and branding himself as the candidate of “change.” You remember “change,” don’t you? I seem to remember that it included change not only from all taint of Bushery but also from Clinonism. Could the media have forgotten that already? And yet here he was adopting Bushite measures and Bushite and Clintonist men (and women!) precisely in the area—defense and foreign policy— […]

   • 2013, George E. Lowe, Stalking the Antichrists (1965–2012), →ISBN, page 498:

     These are very same Neo-Cons and Theo-Cons who have been trying to force the Bushite “brave real men” to go to “Tehran” since 2001 instead of “Baghdad” in 2003.

   • 2013, Alex Niven, The Last Tape, published 2014, →ISBN:

     This was where early Amis derived almost all of his fictional energy from, and you can clearly see the negative effect on his writing of his gradual estrangement from this environment as he enters the eighties and begins his journey from the Webbite soft-left through the neoliberal centre to the Bushite neo-con right.

Noun

Bushite (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)
   • 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:

     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.

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

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

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

     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.

Related terms

• Reaganite

Anagrams

• busieth, tie bush