News Flash: Is JEB! opting out of 2016, or just showing an amazing level of calculated conceit?

There is breaking news from Bloomberg that the Crown Prince has created a Florida-based private equity firm with international bankers, including some former operators from busted Lehman Brothers (where JEB! spent time as a consultant just prior to its bankruptcy). This new speculation firm will bankroll oil and gas ventures. This past April, the Crown Prince's firm, Britton Hill Holdings LLC used backing from a Chinese conglomerate to acquire a stake in a Connecticut shipping startup seeking to enter the surging U.S shale oil and gas export market.  His PR front person had this to say about it, "Governor Bush is a businessman, and investor, and is proud of the work Britton Hill has done to invest in important projects."

All this might suggest JEB! has decided not to try and buy the White House in two years. Conventional wisdom would suggest that. But the Bushes have a Nietzschean-Randian view of themselves as uebermensch of destiny, and ones for whom the rules for ordinary behavior do not apply.  True, JEB! may have decided in favor of business rather than politics, or as he would put it, "the private sector (not mentioning all the government help he would get in his 'private' ventures) over 'public service'."  His family has always made a point of telling the world how much they have "served" their country.

But JEB! may be quietly telling the world he can do all the politically incorrect things an American post-modern globalist businessperson does, such as get in bed with the Chinese to sell them American oil and gas, imitate Mill Romney's predatory chop shopping, etc., and then turn right around and easily buy the GOP nomination, and try to nakedly buy the Presidency on his own terms. In your face, tea party. Crony capitalism is here to stay. Just shut up when I tell you how much I love Jesus, and get on your knees, and vote your Calvinist God's will through me.

Jeb Bush Raises Private Equity Funds as 2016 Campaign Eyed