America swears in her 44th president on January 20. In the spirit of change, scandal, reconciliation, hope, pork-barrel spending, phone solicitors, Rasmussen Reports, audacity, USA Today/Gallup polls, anger management, Rielle Hunter (John ... John ... John!) and promises-promises-promises, I present to you the presidents I would have loved (or maybe not) to have seen in our nation’s highest office: Sam Houston (1860): Texas, the South and America needed a man like Sam Houston on the thresho


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