The question millions of individuals have been forced to confront no matter what side of the party line their embedded in stone political loyalties lie is “Does President Bush rank high as a flim flam man?” Remember when Richard Nixon displayed what a hollow man he was? The Republican right still defends him in their misguided loyalty, which really amounts to a vulgar ego saving device. Bush’s supreme political consultant Karl Rove still considers Richard Nixon his political hero.

Now, with Bush again throwing away millions for political favor, he was willing to spend $5 million to bring all of these marvelous Congressmen who have done such a horrible job on the Iraq War debacle, and have taken bows for their hideous job on the economy as the nation has plunged close to $8 trillion in debt, back to Washington for a special vote. They felt they knew God’s will from on high (as high as saving their political skins can go) and made a mad dash back to the tarnished Capitol, where they have presided over this Administration’s handiwork with such utter disregard for accountability over life and death.

They proclaimed to be preserving the sanctity of life. The flim flam man has dared to label the Republican gang controlling the current scene conservatives. How big a lie can the American public swallow?

Having supported and signed legislation when he was Governor of Texas to pull the plug on the “brain dead” tragic individuals whose bodies had degenerated to “vegetable states” he suddenly changed his mind when the Terri Shiavo case loomed as a promising political cause to demonstrate his self-proclaimed “compassionate conservatism.”

In the midst of a gigantic media display brother Jeb Bush went eagerly to work in Florida, where Terri Shiavo lives. Jeb can be counted on to follow the family line of following a course of pursuing politically opportunistic moral ethics. In a March 26 Miami Herald article Jeb’s attempts to ignore the rule of law are observed. The paper explained, “With the aid of a little known state court control rule, Florida officials planned to seize Terri Shiavo on Thursday from her hospice bed. But local police got in the way!”

Only hours after a judge ordered that Terri Shiavo not be removed from her hospice the Jeb Bush rule of law swung into action. An entire team of state agents was actually en route to seize her and have that much discussed feeding tube reinserted. Local police stationed at the hospice followed the rule of law and stopped this lawless Jeb Bush brigade in its tracks.

The local police informed the state police operatives that Jeb Bush sent to the Pinellas Park, Florida hospice that they intended to follow the rule of law and abide by the judge’s ruling. Fortunately the state police left without incident and a possibly deadly shootout involving competing law enforcement interests as well as a constitutional crisis were fortunately averted. The state police backed down only after the local police informed them that unless a judge provided them with a court order that they could go back to their law breaking flim flam governor for advice.

What has the rule of law meant to the Bush brigade? Bush and his Administration have demonstrated an arrogant contempt for international law in rushing to war in Iraq without proof. When we learned that there were no weapons of mass destruction Bush changed the subject by stressing the need to topple Saddam Hussein, who by then had been defanged by the same international community he treated with contempt with his go it alone posture.

Bush and his Administration then seek to ride to the rescue in claiming they can save Social Security if they are permitted to institute a personal account system that in reality would do little more than create a large financial hole and starve the Social Security Administration of needed funds while his Wall Street friends prospered from the infusion of fresh funds. The Bush Social Security position is another classic example of flim flam artistry at work.

The best thing for Bush and his cronies to do would be to let others handle our economic and international problems. The nation and world would be much better served if he would return to his Texas ranch to cut weeds. Then perhaps the Bush led Republican economic nightmare can end when they quit cutting big checks to provide for the likes of the recent mad dash back to Washington to exploit the Terri Shiavo case.

Their efforts fizzled, like almost everything else the Bush brigade has touched. The Bush Administration has the Midas touch in reverse.