From Those Wonderful People Who Brought You Iraq

In the 1960s, Jerry Della Femina, an advertising executive wrote a book entitled "From those wonderful people who brought you Pearl Harbor!" The title referred to a tongue-in cheek slogan proposed for a client during a brainstorming session.

After reading a pie-in-the-sky column (What Would Jeb Do) in Sunday's Washington Post promoting Jeb Bush as President, or Vice President in 2008, anyone who knows more history than GOP talking points allow must have come away thinking of a derivative of that slogan, "From those wonderful people who brought you the Iraq War, the Florida Fiasco, and the Savings & Loans crisis."

The column was written by S.V. Dáte of the Palm Beach Post and author of "Jeb: America's Next Bush" and was little more than a puff piece for Bush, decrying how Jeb lost the Florida's governor's race, pushing brother George to the front of the list to run for president. One has to believe the reason George HW Bush broke down at Jeb's retirement is because he knew the dumb son became president and was was attempting to apologize to the country for George's mistakes.

Dáte column claims it is "more than an exercise in alternative history" but many of the positives attributed to Jeb and how he would have handled Iraq and Katrina better are specious at best. Probably 99 out of 100 politicians would have handled those issues better than W., and the same column could have been written replacing Jeb Bush with Al Gore and even more forcefully talked about how much better things could have been.

Instead of talking about what Jeb might have done, Dáte could have addressed the other problems the Bush's have caused, including how Jeb helped steal the 2000 presidential election and brother Neil's involvement in the savings & loan crisis during Bush 41.

Dáte wrote that Bush could respond to those who complain about Bush fatigue "We're going to have a dynasty either way," he could respond. "The question is: Which one do you want? My family or hers?"

Great, from those wonderful people who brought you the Iraq mess, the Florida mess, and the saving's and loan mess, Dáte is proprosing more of the same.