Their Target Gone, Billionaires For Bush Disband

The fallout of Obama’s inauguration has been particularly harsh for the satirical group Billionaires for Bush, whose raison d’être was skewering the last president. “The group might have recast itself as Billionaires for Obama. But that would have required ‘irony we can believe in,’ said Andrew Boyd, who sometimes goes by his Billionaire name, Phil T. Rich. ‘Here’s the conundrum,’ Mr. Boyd said. ‘Can you point out that the emperor has no clothes when you like the emperor — and his clothes?'”