And still they worship Bush

I just about fell out of my chair when I heard the details. The Decider, flying into Tucson to support Tim Bee, a Republican who hopes to unseat Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in November, starred in a Friday morning gathering of some 400 people at a private home. He brought in at least $500,000 and was on his way to Houston before 10:30 a.m.

This was not an IHOP morning. People put up at least $1,000 apiece to get in the house. Some of them paid, get this now, $10,000 to have a photo taken with Bush.

Bee is not stupid. According to the Arizona Daily Star, he stayed away from TV and newspaper cameras during the imperial visit..

I just don't get it. Bad enough that, according to the latest poll I've seen (June 30), 23% of US registered voters still support Bush. But $10,000 for a photo op with a man who should be impeached and then indicted?

Why would any thinking person want to be in a photo with the man who has--with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and Gonzales--gone against US and UN law to attack and occupy Iraq, lied to Congress and the UN, authorized attacks on civilian sites, done illegal wiretapping and spying through the NSA, authorized kidnapping and torture, zapped Habeas Corpus, ordered indefinite detentions, authorized secret military tribunals, monitored the privileged communications of attorneys and their clients, criminally neglected the victims of Hurricane Katrina, done racial and religious profiling, kept records from Congress and withdrawn from international treaties?

Why would people want to be in a photo with George W. Bush? What on earth do they value?