Before It’s Too Late 
Just when we are shedding the Bushes and cracks appear in the His ‘n Her Presidencies juggernaut, a new dynastic threat looms.
It may take swallowing a second generation of Romney, but it’s a price worth paying to strangle this political career in it’s cradle.
When the New York Times asked Nixon’s Grandson about his future, Christopher Nixon Cox brings the coy:
“When asked if he would ever consider running for public office, Mr. Cox sidestepped a bit. “For me, the key is to serve my country and my community in whatever way I can,†he said. “It can’t be about ego. It has to be about using my talents to serve the country in the best way I can. Right now, that means working for John McCain.â€
You have been warned.
From the wide wide world of blogging comes perhaps America’s most disturbing baby birthday picture:
Strongmen Weep 
The death of the monstrous Suharto throws new light on the recently beloved Gerald Ford. Suharto presided what couldn’t possibly described as a “decent” regime, and from the massacre of a million Reds to the East Timor genocide he had the foursquare support of six Us Presidents.
Thrill once more to Ford and Kissinger signing off on the invasion of EastTimor, with the horrors that unfolded. The National Security Archives has packaged up their Suharto greatest hits, and there’s more.
They’ve included a link to an upcoming book with perhaps the coolest title ever in international relations,
Economists with Guns. 
Just Do It 
They’ve moved beyond anger to angry resignation at Southern Methodist University, and the SMU Daily Campus just wants their long university nightmare to end.
From their editorial “Enough is Enough“.
“It’s like we are stuck in a horrible time warp where nothing is being done but we have to keep pretending that the Bushes could pack up their books and go elsewhere.
They aren’t. No one else wants the library at this point. Or the Bushes for that matter.
For better or worse, it will be at SMU.
So just end the needless suspense. Get it over with. Build the stage, inflate the balloons, bake the cake and get the shiny shovels out of storage for another groundbreaking ceremony.
Do it and do it now before SMU becomes as big a joke as the president is.”
The Stump, In Happier Times 
Washington State now boasts the replica of a structure built for a Presidential event which never occurred, standing proudly at a different location.
The “McKinley Stump” is in Chehalis Washington’s evocatively named Recreation Park. It stood in various parts of town 100 years, but finally succumbed to ants and rot.
It was created for President McKinley, but never used by him. Theodore Roosevelt did speak from the stump, as did William Howard Taft before he was President. No word on what role America’s Fattest President might have had in starting the deterioration.
