Sometimes an event appears that one crystallizes as totally correct, a justifiable result based on correct application of the facts.

Such a result occurred with the announcement this week that George Bush’s support figure has plummeted to yet another calamitous low. Bush’s rating stands at 25 percent according to the current NBC Poll.

When Dan Abrams, an NBC commentator, spoke about this development on his Friday, June 6 edition on MSNBC, he spoke with justifiable surprise. As Abrams indicated, generally, even with a record the vast majority of Americans rate as thoroughly abysmal, as has been the case with Bush for some time now, such unfortunate chief executives can at least squeak out a 30 to 35 percent figure.

Richard Nixon represents such an example. Even in the doldrums of his drowning presidency, when Barry Goldwater, on behalf of a Republican Party frightened that it faced potential extinction, Nixon never plummeted below 30 percent.

With Bush reaching a cataclysmic 25 percent figure this means that he has been deserted by certain members of that seemingly intractable element of Republican permanent support, Rush Limbaugh Dittoheads and Fox News Zombies.

This element constituted such a seemingly immovable force that many of us never dreamt that, in the present political environment, Bush or any other Republican would nosedive to as precipitous a level as 25 percent.

After George Bush’s forces stole the 2000 presidential election through the combination of the Jeb Bush-Katherine Harris partnership in Florida and a Supreme Court majority in Washington, D.C., the newly designated chief executive declared that he would end partisan political division in the nation’s capital.

With Bush’s two term era of slash and burn with a war launched on lies in Iraq and total fealty to wealthy corporate interests at home to the point where the national debt will soon stand at $10 trillion, he has indeed brought us a government the existence of which many never imagined.

As for ending partisan division in Washington, to that extent let us pay Bush his due and consider this one of those occasions when he did not lie to the American people.

Partisan division did end. The Democratic leadership of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, even after the 2006 congressional elections ended the Republican reign in the Senate and House, saw to it that no impeachment proceedings were initiated.

In other words, even after international law is flouted through rushing the country to war predicated on lies, the Bill of Rights has been sacked, and the Geneva Conventions have been brutally abrogated by sanctioning widespread torture, the Democratic leadership disgracefully tiptoed away.

They tiptoed rather than proceeding toward impeachment when the U.S. Constitution mandates such action whenever federal public officials commit “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

So never let it be said that George W. Bush along with Dick Cheney did not end division. With the Democratic leadership rolling over, the Project for the New American Century along with the most rabid elements of the New World Order had the dream world they had long envisioned, albeit a nightmare scenario for Americans caught in their brutal vise.

The part of the scenario that those who have suffered during a corrupt, unethical rule of corporate dictatorship can now enjoy is that, given they got what they wanted, the Bush-Cheney team along with their greedy corporate fellow travelers cannot do what Republicans have done in past years.

They are no longer in a tenable position to blame Democrats.

Hence, the McCain campaign can run on the Bush-Cheney record.

As loyal Republicans, should they not proudly do so?

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Bill Hare

