On Friday, E.J. Dionne used Mexico's cliffhanger election ("It Couldn't Happen Here") to show the comparative electoral dysfunction of the United States. Not so tongue in cheek, Dionne asked of disputed voting results in a critical swing state, "How would it look if the governor of the state was your own brother?"
For today, though, the most glaring case of brotherly love distorting the political process isn't George and Jeb Bush in the United States, but instead can be found in Poland. As the AP reports, Poland's governing Law and Justice Party accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and recommended Jaroslaw Kaczynski as his replacement. The party chairman, Kaczynski also just happens to be the Polish president's twin brother.
Unlike some brothers in the United States, the PM selection Jaroslaw at least acknowledged the dubious symbolism with heading up his brother Lech's government:

"For various reasons, we came to the conclusion that, at this time, putting forward a different candidate - of which we have many good ones - would be a worse way out than recommending me."

That's a lot more tact than George W. Bush offered regarding Governor Jeb, whose 2000 shenanigans in Florida helped make Dubya president. The current occupant of the White House encouraged his brother's own presidential aspirations, ""I would like to see Jeb run at some point in time." Jeb, George added, would make "a great president."
Democracies, of course, are not supposed to be dynastic systems. Poland's pickle at least can be explained away as a quirk of the parliamentary system. What's our excuse?