The political class ripublicus be stuffed (although I'd prefer to pound them in with a 16# sledge hammer or a pile driver) into two taxonomicological political orders:

   1.   Ripublicus Greedus (c. greedy rich)
   2.   Ripublicus Idiotae (c. utterly stupid)

Ripublicus Greedus is subdivided into the families FatCatus and Corporatae.  The former obviously includes those that Shrub actually declared in a public speech to be his base- "the haves and the want more"   There are many, many genera of FatCatus  but one especially detestable one is Hummerus - a genus consisting of mostly males who are compelled by their inadequacy in the penile department to drive Hummers.  Also included is taxcutae - those who believe that the poor and middle class should pay more proportionately in taxes than themselves.  A renown species of this genus is noestatetaxus - those who wish to pass "their" obscene wealth to their spoiled rich brat children who will most likely squander it on yachts, Hummers, nose candy, and dumb business deals hatched for the self enrichment of executives of the family Corporatae.  Corporatae consists of genus that have funded and profited immensely from the Bush regimes' rein- the vast majority of corporations.  The currently glowing example of which is Halliburton.  Hopefully, it will go the way of another member of the genus, Bush's biggest contributor,  Enron.

In the order Ripublicus Idiotae one finds the major families religious zealotus, chickenhawkae,  free marketae, and your run-of-the-mill rightwing nutus.   The formerly major family fiscal conservatus is seemingly on the brink of extinction.   While they screamed bloody murder the few times Clinton proposed any spending for social programs, the vast majority have have stood silently by while the rest of ripublicus have increased the national debt so much on tax cuts for Ripublicus Greedus and on the chickenhawkae folly in Iraq that our grand kids will be paying the debt.  Of course, should Kerry get elected and roll back the regimes' obscene tax cuts for Ripublicus Greedus, they will come hypocritically roaring back to life.

Then there are the not so missing links (a.k.a. mongrel cross-breeds) of the Ripublicus class- creatures who straddle the two basic pigeon holes.  The prime/glowing example is Shrub himself.  To wit:

• He's a bonafide religious zealotus - he has given millions of our tax dollars to fund religious groups and wants to give much, much more.  Then there's his ban on stem cell research, his failing to even censure a idiotic regime member/Army general's "my god's bigger than your god's" bullshit.   It's completely unsurprisingly, given Shrub's own prolific abuse of religion to "rationalize"  (please pardon the abuse of the terms in the same sentence), sell and otherwise foster his goals.
• He's a despicable chickenhawkae - he was a supporter of the Viet Nam war yet avoided it by using his father's political connections to get in the National Guard.   Worse yet,  he sent over 1,000 (and counting...) soldiers to their deaths in his attack on Iraq- a country which posed no clear and present danger to us.
• He's a exceeding stupid but brazen  free marketae - he has adamantly refused to level the NAFTA playing field by adding fair labor and environmental provisions.   Worse still, he's avidly pushing to extend this bullshit to the rest of the hemisphere.  His only brief experiment with "unfree trade" was acting against steel imports at the beheast of the steel corporations.    He flip-flopped on that though when the steel using corporations screamed.   I guess they are bigger contributors.
• He's an astounding example of Ripublicus Idiotae - Just a couple of examples should suffice.  1) His (well, more like his chickenhawkae puppeteers...) thinking that attacking Iraq would bring democracy to the Middle East.  2)  Believing that tax cuts for the  FatCatus and Corporatae would stimulate the economy more that rational tax cuts- for the "little people".  In this field, he's managed the seemingly impossible feat of persuading a mounting number of fellow Ripublicus Idiotae to attempt to vote against him in Nov.!
• He's a both a FatCatus and Corporatae - born with a silver coke spoon up his nose, he became a multimillionaire in spite of his failed businesses.  Once again, he depended on daddy and his daddy's buds to bail his miserable ass out of the jambs.   Well, that's not entirely true, he apparently thought up his insider trading deal at Harkin all by stupid himself.  OTOH, it doesn't take a Ken Lay or Bernie Evers to decide to dump stock if one is an executive of, on the board of and on the accountiung committe of a corporation which is about to tank.
• I would overload the web server which hosts this page with examples of his membership in  the rightwing nutus family so, I'll list only a few of the more obscene examples from one of the many areas Shrub has run completely amok in:  protection (more like rape...) of the environment.
• He's opened millions of acres of our wilderness areas and both public and private wetlands to exploitation by FatCatus and Corporatae and opened old growth forests for felling.   Shrub has said that Teddy Roosevelt is his hero.  As both a proponent and protector of federal lands and an enemy of the robber barons of his era, I'm quite sure Teddy is spinning in his grave- at thousands of RPMs no less.
• He's gutted the feeble protections afforded to mountains and streams by gutting the regulations on mining via mountain top removal.   Worse yet, he's sold untold millions of acres of our federal lands for as little as $6 an acre  to Corporatae - no doubt causing Teddy to reach millions of RPMs.  Maybe Dick "go fuck yourself" Cheney and the corporate drafters of the regime's notorious energy plan should admend it by including harnessing Teddy's energy since he's, now spinning at billions of RPMs!
• He's abandoned research into more fuel efficient and less polluting near term vehicles and instead is throwing billions at the auto and oil corporations for research on hydrogen vehicles which, due to the immense and very costly required infrastructure, maybe our grandchildren will be driving.   Adding insult to injury,  he's adamantly and repeatedly refused to increase the federal mileage standards.  He managed to top even that bit of astounding bit stupidity by giving up to $100,000 in tax credits to Hummerus  and buyers of other three ton throw-weight and larger SUVs.
• Do I even need to mention their repeated attempts to rape ANWR to increase our oil supply by mere days at the current consumption rate (i.e. excluding their above cited lunacy which increases gasoline consumption).