When in a hole...

You would have thought that Dubya had dug such a deep hole for his family's political ambitions that other family members would stop adding to the trench themselves...

Not so.

On seeing the large number of refugees crammed in the Houston Astrodome, Barbara Bush was heard to comment :

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality," she said during a radio interview with the American Public Media program "Marketplace." "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

So that's all right then - it would be very sad to see George W's beloved Texas swamped by the poor and homeless of Louisiana.

You have to hope that the majority of the electorate might identify more with the victims of Katrina than the person one commentator has already dubbed, America's "Marie Antoinette."

Beheading en mass of the Bush dynasty is perhaps a little too much to hope for - but hopefully the voters (at least those who haven't been illegally disenfranchised) will tajke the opportunity to turf out George and Jeb at the next opportunity.