fat-cat in a top-hat...

Digby has called it.

I think he missed out on explicitly bringing class into it. Bush and his ilk represent a specific faction of the capitalist class, their efforts at institutionalizing aristocracy are fundamentally a kind of class warfare. What's interesting is that in many ways it is a battle fought against other factions within the capitalist class (c.f. Buffet and Gates). I think that's a damn good sign, even if the other factions will never genuinely be progressive nothing is more conservative than an aristocracy.