So what is even smaller than a Shrub??

OK - I was just saying the other week to SFS and a couple of others that the best thing that W has done is ensure that the Bush dynasty is over. Kaput. Gonski. 2 and a half more years, then hopefully will be consigned as a weird footnote to aspirational stupidity, and a case study of how to win votes and influence justices.

Think again, Bernard.

"Lazarus", I hear myself shrieking...

According to Elisabeth Busmiller's final "Whitehouse Letter" in the NYTimes, Jeb is likely to be a contender for the Republican nomination in either 2012 or 2016. (If his brother hasn't gotten the planet blown up by then...)

Jeb's 2nd term as Govenor of Florida is up this year, so why not go straight to the campaign trail now? Not even W would be that stupid...

Evidently, Jeb was the family fave to be the current Pres, but he lost in Florida when Texas elected W as Lord High Executioner in '94. That then gave W Pole Position.

Had this NOT been the case, would Florida have been able to deliver the electoral college votes in 2000 I wonder?? Probably, but worthy of a thought a bit later on...

Anyway, some are commenting that 3 rounds of Bush administrations would be a really hard sell ever - and especially not now; other reasons that Jeb doesn't want to run now is that it is still a bit too close to the time when his wife was caught up not declaring USD19,000 worth of Parisian shopping spree, and his daughter being caught on a prescription fraud rap trying to get xanax on a (?) fraudulent script. (If Daddy had been Prez, the Secret Service could have been co-opted to help, much like in the case of the First Twins' under-age drinking binges...)

Sigh...

Another Bush vs Another Clinton could have been a fun race to watch.