Bush Diaspora

Then: POTUS
Now: Memoirist, Highly-Paid Speaker, Barney scooper
Status: Not forgiven, but no longer actively loathed

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Then: Secretary of Defense
Now: Memoirist, D.C. Hermit
Status: Known unknown

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Then: Co-President, or possibly President
Now: Memoirist, Friend of Mike Allen
Status: Equally menacing but without the power

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Then: Secretary of State
Now: Sportswriter, Memoirist
Status: Still golden

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Then: Counselor
Now: Shadowy architect of the GOP’s midterm victory
Status: Scary in an inchoate sort of way

Joshua Roberts, Bloomberg / Getty Images

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Then: Bush’s Brain
Now: Shadowy architect of the GOP’s midterm victory, Fox News pundit, Memoirist
Status: The pudgy face of Republican evil

Mark Wilson / Getty Images

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Then: Secretary of State
Now: Obama endorser, Bipartisan wise man
Status: Still holier-than-all-of-us

Karin Cooper, CBS News / AP Photo

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Then: Press Secretary
Now: Snitch
Status: Heroic

Richard Drew / AP Photo

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Then: Corrupt Attorney General
Now: Second-Rate College Professor
Status: Everything Miguel Estrada isn’t

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Then: Supreme Court Nominee
Now: Second-Rate Lawyer
Status: Thankfully obscure

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Then: Bumbling FEMA Chief
Now: Denver Shock Jock, Disaster Consultant
Status: Nowhere to go but up

Stefan Jaffe, AFP / Getty Images

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Then: Attorney Geneal
Now: Hired Hack
Status: Irrelevant

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Then: Secretary of Homeland Security
Now: Hired hack
Status: Yellow alert

Haraz N. Ghanbari / AP Photo

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Then: Chief Speechwriter
Now: Washington Post pundit
Status: Bush preservationist

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Then: architect of Bush’s re-election campaign,
Now: Gay Icon
Status: Confused

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Then: First Lady
Now: Memoirist, Dallasite, Highly Paid Public Speaker
Status: Weirdly unchanged

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Then: Savior of Iraq
Now: Savior of Afghanistan
Status: Possibly presidential

Luca Bruno / AP Photo

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Then: First Daughters
Now: Humanitarian and Teacher/ Today Show correspondent
Status: Single and married

Chip East / Reuters

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Then: Secretary of Defense
Now: Secretary of Defense
Status: The one thing Obama didn’t change

J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo

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Then: Torture-Authorizing House Lawyer
Now: Berkeley Professor
Status: Grounded

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Then: The good brother
Now: Party wise man, presidential timber
Status: Good and rising

Sue Ogrocki / AP Photo

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Then: Murderous dictator of Iraq
Now: Dead dictator of Iraq
Status: Over

Scott Nelson / AP Photo

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Then: Venezuelan president who smelled sulfur around Bush
Now: Ditto, with Obama
Status: Still a nuisance

Manuel Diaz / AP Photo

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Then: Wacko President of Iran
Now: Wacko President of Iran
Status: Clownish

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Then: Presidential Pretender, 2004
Now: Environmentalist, Scott Brown’s Biking Partner
Status: Footnote

Drew Angerer / AP Photo

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Then: Presidential Pretender, 2000
Now: Environmentalist, Nobel Laureate
Status: Available

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Bush Diaspora

The publication of George W. Bush's memoir, Decision Points, has once more made the former president highly visible. But where have all the members of his administration gone? The Daily Beast tracks down the Bushies.