Poll: Mike Huckabee leads 2016 GOP hopefuls

[Deny and Shred]

43. Yikes - Bush III vs Clinton II?

That ought to be the 7th sequel to a monster movie!

Since when are dynastic families and nouveau-riche royalty a regular thing in the Land of the Free? I thought a noble class was a thing of Old World Europe that was deliberately left behind by the founders of the New World. Between the never-ending Bush Tax Cuts and lack of an Estate Tax, looks like we now have an established American nobility.

I guess when we allow trickle-down to progress unabated for 30+ years, we shouldn't be surprised that power and human nature overcome poorly-financed idealism.

Then again, if not for the quasi-dynastic Roosevelts - TR/FDR - this all would have been in place a hundred-plus ago.

There is a great line in Bob Roberts, the 20 year-old movie based on Tim Robbin's Conservative folk-singer turned politician :

We don't have any more visionaries in Washington, just dealmakers.

Pretty prophetic.