George W. Bush is slowly but surely uniting liberals and conservatives in a common purpose to confront his lawless administration, his total disregard for the US Constitution.

Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a very conservative Republican, has "suggested" a remedy for a lawless President is impeachment and removal from office. Senator Hagel has been an outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq.

The so-called "prince of darkness", columnist Robert Novak, a conservative, has said George W. Bush is the most isolated President in the last 50 years, even more then Richard M. Nixon in the dark days of Nixon's impeachment hearings as more and more Republicans step away from this incompetent lawless President.

You have a Justice Department headed by a personal friend, aka toady, Alberto Gonzales, who, it appears, authorized the firing of US Attorney's for strictly political reasons that is resulting in extreme politicization of the Justice Department.

Mr. Gonzales, before becoming attorney general, helped draft and/or support the unconstitutional policies Mr. Bush has adopted including the illegal NSA wiretapping, the rendition of suspects to secret CIA prisons where they were tortured, the stripping of Constitutional rights whisking away even American citizens to military prisons without legal representation or a day in court, recently codified (although still unconstitutional) by a cowardly US Congress last fall in the Military Commissions Act stripping anyone of their most basic right - Habeas Corpus - the right to defend yourself in court - that the President deems an enemy combatant, including any American.

Then there are the infamous signing statements where the President, when signing a bill into law basically says he has the right to ignore the law whenever he deems it necessary "for national security reasons" or "as commander-in-chief". He is in effect saying "fuck you" Congress, "I am the decider" (I am the dictator).

And we must not forget his Press Secretary recently said the Congress has no oversight responsibilities over the White House.

So Chuck Hagel's remarks are not an over-reaction. As he joins other conservatives who are troubled by George W. Bush like George Will, William F Buckley, Andrew Sullivan and others, liberals/progressives are becoming more and more united and mature in their determination to defeat this lawless administration.

Clearly, Democrats do not want to make any rash moves or appear irresponsible. But the continued extreme arrogance and total disregard of this Administration toward the Congress and the US Constitution are fanning the flames of ever rising discontent in this country and at some point the momentum against the President may be so great that even US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will be tripping over himself to vote "yes" in a Senate trial of impeachment against President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney.

Time will tell.

But it is quickly becoming not a good time to be a Republican candidate for anything as long as they have the Bush/Cheney/Iraq millstone around their neck. I'm afraid I lack any pity for them.