The news that Jenna Bush, the president’s daughter, is engaged and likely to get married long before the family leaves the White House raises some delicious questions of both protocol and politics. The guest-list is sure to be pored over for its meaning and given the Bush family’s tendency to mix the political and the personal—at the last Bush family wedding the Bush twins toasted their cousin George P. Bush and his bride as the 47th president and his first lady—we can be sure that it will make for interesting reading. Look out for which world leaders make the cut, whether Tony gets an invite or not, which members of the Bush cabinet are invited, whether the Clintons attend and if any of the current crop of Republican candidates gets an invite.
One person we can be almost certain will be there is Karl Rove. Not only is he one of the president’s closest political buddies but he’s also the
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