Molly Ivins: Those unknown unknowns

Creators Syndicate

AUSTIN - There's been so much in print about how Daddy 41's people are back in the saddle that I was terrified when I saw a photo of Dan Quayle among the pack. If they've called back Quayle to lend intellectual heft, we're dead ducks. Fortunately, it was just a file picture of Quayle with the old team.

It does seem that we might be going back to the typical modus operandi of The Family. Poppy Bush has helped Junior out of the Vietnam War, his failures in the oil business and other efforts all of his "adult" life.

Unfortunately for us and for the world, the people from the first Bush administration who initially joined this administration were Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld. Not exactly the most diplomatic, forward-looking, helpful people to be guiding Dubya.