Perhaps the most interesting political information to come out of last week did not involve the early position jockeying for 2008 presidential aspirants, but the steadily sagging numbers of George W. Bush.

An NBC-Wall Street Journal Poll registered Bush at his lowest ever total, plummeting to 29 percent.  An analysis of what caused startlingly negative earlier figures to drop even more led to more troubling news for Bush, Cheney and Rove.

The pollsters discovered that one major group was responsible for the Bush collapse below the 30 percent threshold.  Republicans have now begun to register negative responses toward Bush.  Members of his own party staying with him out of a sense of loyalty represented the only significant positive readings for a besieged Bush for some time.

It has been said with increasing frequency recently, this site included, that the only support base the neocon ruling elite has left is the hard core, thoroughly programmed, Limbaugh dittohead-Fox zombie contingent.  The current poll figures corroborate this belief.

Criminals used to cash in when publishers paid them huge sums to go into every gory detail of their crime sprees.

Finally, the law stepped in, and many states have enacted legislation preventing these hardened criminals from profiting on their horror stores.

But tragically, some of the all-star cast in generating war in Iraq is cashing in big time on a fraudulent conflict erected on a tissue of lies.  If their participation in this ghastly venture was treated as a criminal conspiracy to destroy business, they might be tried and sent to jail pronto.

But the war game, where so many people profit and make tainted millions, is another story.  Over the dead bodies of nearly 2,500 American service personnel and around 15,000 wounded along with over 100,000 Iraqis dead, these author vultures can profit along with their publishers.  War contributors are not stopped from selling their contribution to the deadly mistaken war, but are amply rewarded.