by Samuel Francis

About the author: Samuel Francis is a nationally syndicated columnist.

The tedium that descended upon the nation’s politics last winter [of 2000] when [George] Bush II ascended the presidential throne was relieved briefly in the waning days of the Clinton era by the bitter breezes that wafted around some of the new President’s Cabinet appointments. After repeatedly muttering his meaningless campaign slogan, “I’m a uniter, not a divider,” Mr. Bush suddenly found himself accused of the horrid and unpardonable offense of dividing when he nominated certain individuals of whom the real rulers of the country did not approve. “Uniting,” as the former governor of Texas should have known and probably did know, means doing what the Zeitgeist (and those who craft it) want; “dividing&rdquo...