What I started reading a month ago when googling mena and Jeb bush made my hair stand on end. Read stuff on that whole affair, Colombian drugs, Barry Seal, the Bushes, the Clintons (you wonder why they have become family), the Contras.... Smoke was coming out of some of my brain’s synapses.
It seems being President is like being “made” into a crime family. Man this country is in trouble.
Reading it 15 years on left me with a similar impression.
Yikes. This little blast from the past really bolsters your point, though it's only dealing with a mayor of a what was once a very major city. But we know how they work together now, don't we? In fact, one could even speculate that it's the mayors who "make" the president.