of the syndrome you have documented and described.

Please give a quick read to posts 99 and 101:

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/04/obama-doesnt-want-you-to-know-he-knows-public-option-is-popular/#comment-187499

The 20 years period of a Bush as either VP or President goes much deeper than only nepotism/legacy, and is a connected but much graver problem than the one you have written about so forcefully....

Consider in addition, that the close connections between the Bushes and former RI Senator John Chafee, the late Senator Claiborne Pell's grandfather was closely related to John Train's grandmother, widow of Morgan partner Charles H. Coster:

MISS GOSTER IS WED TO SUMHER GERARD; She Is the Only Bride in …New York Times - Jun 14, 1913

Ars. Henry Lewis AIorris and Aiis, s Maude Coster. her brother, Charles Henry Coster; her aunt. .Mrs. Thomas G. Townsend, Air. and irs. Herbert C. PelL Ir. ...

John Train's father Arthur married Helen Coster, who first married Sumner Gerard in the 1913 wedding, above.

John Train has employed GHW Bush Zapata partner and eternal CIA asset, Thomas Devine at least since 1973. at Train, Cabot, a favored CIA investment house. Train's father married Helen Gerard Coster in 1926 after his wife Ethel Kissam:

- New York Times - May 16, 1923

Ethel Kissam, wife of Arthur C. Train, at her residence, 113 East 73d St. Notice of funeral later.

Ethel Kissaam's father Benjamin was the brother of Maria Louisa Kissam, who was married to the wealthiest man in the world, William Henry Vanderbilt:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Vanderbilt

The Bush connections not only are the epitome of what you decry in your columns, but they build on the "juice" of interconnections that the media and the public never inquire about, and thus are not exposed to.....

What’s in store for the Oval Office Despite 22 years in political…

Pay-Per-View - Providence Journal - ProQuest Archiver - Oct 30, 1988

[John H. Chafee] was at Yale University with [George Herbert Walker Bush], and Chafee’s roommate, Alexander Ellis, married Bush’s sister, Nancy….

Thomas Devine had the same best man in his 1973 wedding as Nancy Bush had in 1946:

Attended by Nine at Marriage in Glenville, Bonn., to Alexander...

- New York Times - Oct 27, 1946

... Prescott Sheldon Bush of Greenwich, to Alexander Ellis Jr., son of Mrs. Ellis of New York, ... William Butts Macomber of Rochester, N. Y., was best man.

Miss Alexandra Mills Is Bride of TJ Devine

- New York Times - Apr 15, 1973

William B. Macomber Jr., United States. Ambassador to Turkey, was best man.

In 1963, William B. Macomber Jr. married John Foster Dulles's personal secretary:

DULLES UNDER KNIFE 2 1/2 HRS.

- Chicago Tribune - ProQuest Archiver - Nov 4, 1956

M1lrs. Dulles was with her husband in the hospital. A dip- assistant, William B. Macomber and two other aids, and Allan Dulles, brother and head of the ....

WB Macomber Jr. Weds Miss Bernau

- New York Times - Dec 29, 1963

Phyllis Dorothy Bernau of Milton, Mass., and William Butts Macomber Jr., recently United States Ambassador to Jordan, were married today at the American ..

SECRETARY JUST LAUGHS

Pay-Per-View - Los Angeles Times - ProQuest Archiver - Jun 9, 1957

Secretary of State Dulles made a safe emergency landing today when one of his plane's ... be- cause he was dictating to bis secretary, Miss Phyllis Ber nau, ...

William Macomber Jr.'s brother John is the Mckinsey & Co. mentor and co-director at the failed Lehman brokerage, Michael Ainslie. Ainslie is the seoond husband of:

Miss Suzanne B. Hooker Married to Ames Braga

- New York Times - Sep 14, 1973

... of Miss Suzanne Butler Hooker, a junior at Barnard College, to Ames Braga, ... George H. W. Bush, chair of the Republican National Committee, escorted ...

Susan Hooker Braga Ainslie's father was Edward Gordon Hooker. GHW Bush's Phillips Andover roommate (unmentioned in Bush's book), who was

George Demohrenschildt's step-nephew and Oil exploration business partner:

George H. W. Bush recalled, "I first met de Mohrenschildt in the early 1940s. He was an uncle to my Andover roommate." (The roommate, Edward G. Hooker, ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Mohrenschildt

The legacy lock on the senate is only one small part of the powerbase of the few thousand people who spend so much time taking the rest of us down in pursuit of their own monopolization of power and wealth.