It's clear that Jebbie is running in 2012

Did you honestly think that the Bush family would go away quietly, even though their scion just wrecked the country? The United States may be a ruin of a fiefdom for the Bush family and their friends, but it is, in their mind, THEIR fiefdom for the Bush famiily and their friends.

Don't kid yourself that this "National Council for a New America" is about rethinking, or even rebranding, the Republican Party. This is the greed wing, the Grover Norquist wing, of the Republican Party making a pre-emptive strike against Evita Mooselini, Bobby the Exorcist Jingles, and the rest of the Christofascist Zombie Brigade that hijacked John McCain last year and now threatens to hijack the rest of the party in the upcoming midterm elections and into 2012. And while Mitt Romney has a prominent role, the savior for the interests of the wealthy that is making the Greedmeisters get all tingly in the groin is Jeb Bush. Oh, they're putting Eric Cantor out there to equate "freedom" with "rich people being able to do whatever they want to amass as much cash as they want no mattter from whom they take it", and Mittster is calling for the nomination of a "center-right" Supreme Court nominee, but don't kid yourself -- these guys are Jeb Bush's stalking horses. They may all run in 2012, but Cantor and Mittster and even Newtie are just flies to be brushed off the back of America's self-styled royal family.

It's amusing to see Jeb Bush painted as a "new young fresh face" in the Republican party. Maybe he'll cut a hip-hop album to appeal to those pesky Gen-Y-ers and Millennials who voted for Obama because they're having trouble finding a job that will allow them to move out of their parents' house and might listen to the siren song of Wall St. riches again. "Who ya gonna believe," the Republicans are telling the kids, "...me or your lying eyes?" So far the kids are alright in believing their eyes, not the false promise of greed.

DCap, in his trademark picturesque fashion, describes this Band of Brothers thusly:

• Eric Cantor, douchebag and objectionist extraordinaire. Cantor, as Congressional minority whip, has been one of the prime motivators of the "Just Say No" policy. It is his "persuasiveness" that has helped the GOP fall to its lowest identification level in over 40 years. I am sure they were frying his brain on those anti-drug ads.
  
• Mittens Romney, failed candidate and out-of-touch billionaire. Romney failed to resonate much of a message with his own base during the primary season last year. Many have said he would have been a "great" VP candidate when the markets collapsed - and compared to Palin he would have been. Then again anyone, including Michele Bachmann, would have been better than Palin. Considering the state of the financial industry and how people feel about bailouts and finance companies - does anyone really think the former CEO of a venture capital firm is the one to send a message?
  
• Jeb Bush, brother of the biggest failure and most hated president in American political history. He might as well change his name to Jeb Stalin, Jeb Hitler or Jeb Khan, it will be much more palatable.

I think DCap is perhaps a bit more dismissive of Jebbie's prospects than he should be. Remember, this is the same country that allowed his wastrel cokehead brother to get close enough to winning to steal two elections.