Bush is behaving like the U.S. version of

Milosevic, ‘telling Al Gore

“to hurry up and concede before the people find out I

really lost the election.” ‘

The man who says he wants to be “a uniter, not a divider”

and that he “trusts the people,” doesn’t give a damn that

some 20,000 voters in Florida were disenfranchised one

way or another – and the numbers keep rising. Or is it that

he figures if the country’s and world’s eyes are diverted

away from Florida, he can somehow save his baby

brother [Florida Governor] Jeb’s hide?

Jeb seemed mighty uncomfortable as he stood before the

cameras at a press conference Wednesday, rolling his

lower lip over his upper, his beady eyes darting about as

he announced he was recusing himself from the election

certification commission. State Attorney General Bob

Butterworth, a Democrat, was visibly shaken.

Does Butterworth know something we don’t? As the

state’s chief law enforcement officer, could he be

wrestling with bringing charges against Jeb and all the

constitutional officers engaged in this debacle?

Jeb promised George W. that he would deliver Florida to

him. What he left out of that statement was how he

planned to accomplish that. An investigation and a reform

of Florida’s election law are surely in order.

Florida has a long history of election fraud. So it takes a

grand stretch of the imagination to believe that so many

Florida voters and election officials are bumbling idiots,

when the funny business stretched from north to south and

east to west.

Perhaps Floridians and the nation should have paid more

attention to the 1997 election fraud in Miami. That ended

when Mayor Xavier Suarez’s election was overturned

because of fraud involving absentee ballots. City

Commissioner Humerto Hernandez, along with 13 other

elected officials and volunteers, were convicted and

sentenced to 364 days in prison for their roles in helping

to steal the election for Hernandez.

Now we learn that Suarez sits on the executive committee

of the Miami-Dade Republican Party and, in this year’s

election, was specifically involved in recruiting absentee

voters and helping to fill out absentee ballot forms. Do

you smell something rotten here?