"Starring Jed Bush as Joliet Jake...."

Jake:  "We'll put the band back together, do a few gigs, we get some bread. ... Bang!"

That's right.*  You read it in the New York Times this past weekend:  Maureen Dowd reports the Bush Brothers are Putting the Band Back Together ...

W. was a boy king, propped up by regents supplied by his father. Since he knew nothing about foreign affairs, his father surrounded him with his own advisers: Colin Powell, Condi Rice and Dick Cheney, who joined up with his pal Donald Rumsfeld and absconded with W.’s presidency.

Jeb, too, wanted to bolster his negligible foreign policy cred, so the day of his speech, his aide released a list of 21 advisers, 19 of whom had worked in the administrations of his father and his brother. The list starts with the estimable James Baker. But then it shockingly veers into warmongers.

 

It’s mind-boggling, but there’s Paul Wolfowitz, the unapologetic designer of the doctrine of unilateralism and pre-emption, the naïve cheerleader for the Iraq invasion and the man who assured Congress that Iraqi oil would pay for the country’s reconstruction and that it was ridiculous to think we would need as many troops to control the country as Gen. Eric Shinseki, then the Army chief of staff, suggested.

There’s John Hannah, Cheney’s national security adviser (cultivated by the scheming Ahmed Chalabi), who tried to stuff hyped-up junk on Saddam into Powell’s U.N. speech and who harbored bellicose ambitions about Iran; Stephen Hadley, who let the false 16-word assertion about Saddam trying to buy yellowcake in Niger into W.’s 2003 State of the Union; Porter Goss, the former C.I.A. director who defended waterboarding.

There’s Michael Hayden, who publicly misled Congress about warrantless wiretapping and torture, and Michael Chertoff, the Homeland Security secretary who fumbled Katrina.

Jeb is also getting advice from Condi Rice, queen of the apocalyptic mushroom cloud.  And in his speech he twice praised a supporter, Henry Kissinger! who advised prolonging the Vietnam War, which the Nixon White House thought might help with the 1972 election...

Why not bring back Scooter Libby?

Is it a comedy, or a horror film?  A Mission ... from God?
Will it suffer the typical sequel fate, requiring rebooting?


Stay tuned ... 

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* ... We Bad..." 

(plus, deliberate sic on Jed's name in the title...)