Great piece by Michael Kinsley on the Bush administration's apparent fascination with faux royalty.

Doesn't our president understand that there are two different kinds of nations in the world? There are nations where the rulers are determined by heredity - where the person in charge is in charge for no better reason than that his or her father was in charge before him. Then there are nations where the rulers are determined by democracy - where the person in charge is in charge because he or she got the most votes in an election among the citizens. And in this great divide, the United States stands proudly on the side of ... of ...

Oh, never mind.