Americans voted for change this election year.  They've had their fill of the worst administration ever and Washington insiders.

 

But in spite of the American electorate's clear demands, the same old legacy names keep popping up ad nauseum.

 

Jeb Bush may run for Mel Martinez's Florida US Senate seat.  Haven't we had enough of this failed, incompetent, corrupt dynasty with Jeb just another Bush sibling who, despite his record of fraud, escaped accountability and time in the slammer, like his brother Neil, and' of course, his criminal brother, George.

 

Caroline Kennedy's name has surfaced as a possible replacement for Hillary Clinton in the US Senate.  The Kennedy era has passed.  One Kennedy in the Senate is enough.  With Eric Holder, she served on Obama's VP candidate selection committee.  Their choices of

Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia and Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party as two candidates on the short list, shows Kennedy and Holder's questionable political wisdom.

 

And then there is Terry McAuliffe, former head of the DNC who didn't meet a corporation he didn't like.  The DNC under his direction was a corporatist cheerleader to be tapped for money not the grassroots, 50 state strategy Democratic organization it became with Howard Dean.

 

McAuliffe was a six figure investor in the Enron like Global Crossing which went bankrupt in 2002.  He was a Clintonite fundraiser and co-chair of the Clinton-Gore re-election committee.  He is the consummate Washington insider, not an agent for change.

 

McAuliffe is running for governor of Virginia in 2009. 

 

Jonathan Stein, at Mother Jones, agrees in a post titled: Against Nepotism" 

 

He writes, "This is a bipartisan plea. Can we stop with the scions of powerful families grabbing vacant positions for themselves? That means no Jeb Bush...no Caroline Kennedy...it also means no Terry McAuliffe, the Clintons' close confidant and former money man...from New York state....If there was ever a time that the American people said decisively that they want new blood in Washington, it's now. Let's not perpetuate the old boys club in the face of that.