THE late, Texas-based journalist Molly Ivins was the first to sound the alarm on the phenomenal rise of George W. Bush in Texas politics. In columns after columns, she tried to find answers to this question. How can one who has built his entire life around incompetence and failure, and would have been a nobody had it not been for the support of his father's cronies, smoothly glide into the exalted place at the Governor's Mansion?

Ivins wrote at least two books chronicling W's history of business bankruptcies from dried-up oil fields to investments that went awry. She was the first to call W "Shrub" and "Dubya" that were both written in the pejorative. But the prop from his father's friends never ceased, culminating in Dubya's management of the Texas Rangers baseball team. George W. Bush, Ivins once wrote, "is a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate America."

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