Jeb Bush: I Have No Future

Outgoing Florida Governor Jeb Bush, brother of President George W. Bush, got all existential yesterday.

Reuters:

The shadow of President Bush seemed to loom large over his younger brother on Wednesday, as the outgoing Florida governor ruled out any plans to return to elected office.

"No tengo futuro (I have no future)," Jeb Bush told Spanish-language reporters in Miami, when asked about any possible political ambitions after he steps down next month.

The popular, two-term governor has often been touted as a savvy politician with a good chance of following both his brother and father, George H.W. Bush, into the White House.

But the unpopularity and dismal job-approval ratings of his brother may have scuttled any plans Jeb Bush may have had for a future in politics after running one of America's most crucial swing states for the past eight years.

It's not the first time a member of the Bush clan sounded like a character in an Ingmar Bergman film when discussing Jeb's political life. The Bush Brothers' father, former president George Bush, broke down crying when discussing Jeb's electoral past.