We're Part of the 65%

For those Republicans who insist that the Democrats are just playing to their base with things like the closed Senate session to force a serious investigation on whether this Administration manipulated and misused intelligence in order to get us involved in a disasterous conflict that has cost over 2,000 Americans their life, polls like this recent CBS Poll (which is amply supported by other polls) show how horribly deluded they are.

Regardless of what happened last November (and, yeah, I'm looking at you Diebold. Actually, now that the Plame cover-up has been exposed and the degree of the Administration's deceit on the matter is made public, you don't need a conspiracy theory to believe that things would have been different last November if the Administration had come clean), we're in a different place now. And those on the right are part of a shrinking 35% and we're on the side with 65%.

To those on the right who refuse to acknowlege this obvious fact, I offer these truths: Your President is horribly unpopular right now. (And he's becoming more and more unpopular in red states too, like North Carolina.) A senior White House official was just indicted for acts directly related to his official work, with more to come. Your House majority leader, already horribly ethically challenged, was just indicted. Your Senate majority leader is under investigation by the SEC and has told several lies to the public about his stock ownership. More and more of your members of Congress will become enveloped by the Jack Abramoff scandal.

So you can continue to mouth the talking points and say how its all gonna be allright, it's just the liberal fringe making noise. But if you don't wake up soon, November 2006 may be a real shock to the system.
- posted by Joshua @ 11:10 AM