The House of Bush's latest presumed entry into Presidential politics has been shedding his potentially embarrassing off-shore investments and corporate board memberships like a burlesque queen sheds her outfit. His royal hindquarters John Ellis ("J.E.B.") Bush wants to clear the decks for a Presidential run in 2016 and the last person he wants is to be identified with is 2012 Rethuglican candidate Willard "One Percenter" Romney….um, well, maybe not the last person he wants to be identified with. That would probably be his older, dimmer brother Dumbya, as Andy Borowitz points out in his hilarious take.
J.E.B.'s presumed candidacy tends to ice the other favorites of the Party's wealthy elites: the aforementioned One Percenter, and Chris "Krispykreme" Christie, whose popularity in New Jersey is sinking after a series of scandals and blowups on the part of the absentee Governor. Even after two Bush presidencies have crippled the economy, big money -- which is always cushioned from economic downturns -- wants their man in the White House to make sure their status is maintained, history and the good of the country be damned. And as we've often seen, many voters develop amnesia when they go to the polls.
