No "Good" Deed....

 There was a time when the Clintons' "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy toward gays in the military was considered a step forward, meaning that witchhunts for gays to purge them from the ranks were over, but gays who didn't want to serve in areas of actual combat could announce their orientation and get out.

  Then we were told that DADT was the WORST  policy ever and gays NEEDED to be able to parade every June, so the policy was dropped. 

   Now, apparently, rather than being happy that the policy that was so hated no longer exists, it must retroactively have never existed, which is not how "progress" works.

More Bushes?

Forget the CW's "Dynasty" series (on its third 'Crystal' AND 'Alexis' in its third season, and filmed here in Georgia!), the REAL American dynasties are in the political realm, where the Kennedys were once the Royals, and we now have second generation Clintons and third generation Bushes upon us!
  America was formed to get AWAY from the Monarchy, BUT people revert to what they know, and even Washington was offered to be "king", so we were already on a bad trajectory way back when. I blame John Adams, whose nepotism is reflected in Biden and Trump currently, and whose son, John Quincy Adams, became the sixth President. We have since had William Henry and Benjamin Harrison, ninth and twenty-third Presidents, and grandfather and grandson respectively. Then, more currently, George H.W. and George W. Bush, father and son Presidents, and we just missed having President Bill Clinton's wife serve out their third term as President in 2016. Why are the Clintons different? Because husbands and wives, or, in the age of "Marriage Equality", spouses, have a special legal and social arrangement that most siblings or parents and children, outside of some remote locales, do not. The Clintons are more akin to the Wallaces of Alabama, the husband, George having been Governor until term limits ended his career, and the wife, Lurleen, succeeding him and they continuing the Governorship.

  The Bushes spoke out against the Trump agenda before he was a viable candidate, and have famously voted "Clinton" in 2016. The two families are thick as thieves, and one can speculate that the non-choice of Jeb Bush or Third Term Clinton was really not a choice at all, and that's why the Trump upset upset them all so much. Looks as if they are not going away though. Any of them. God help us.