The Dems who DON"T stand for anything - at least that appears to be the biggest part of the strategy of the DC Democrats - are busy seizing defeat from the jaws of victory.
First there is some more good news today in that there is another record low for Bush's approval rating for a specific poll - this time it's NBC/WSJ Poll - 36% Approve, and 57% Disapprove.
But there is a trend in this poll that is not so good:
More below:
From the poll:
How will that anger play out in November's midterm elections? Forty-five percent of registered voters say they prefer Democrats controlling Congress, compared with 39 percent who say they want Republicans in charge. That six-point Democratic advantage, however, is smaller than the 13-point advantage Democrats held in March or the nine-point advantage they had in January.
Hmmm, at a time when more people should be swinging to the Democratic column, the trend seems to be going the other way. Maybe it's the stand for nothing Dems whose consultant driven strategies seem to be happy at driving 2% away from the Republican vote.
Glen Greenwald had an interesting Feingold comment in his blog earlier this week titled `the need for a political soul':
The most revealing was Feingold's answer as to why he did not consult with the Democratic Senate caucas before announcing his intention to introduce his Censure Resolution:
.....Once he'd felt the Dems had again lost their resolve to fight, and once the information concerning the warrantless NSA spying had come to light, he'd decided the right thing to do was to simply take action. And he did."Yes," I followed up, "and don't get me wrong, I strongly support your effort there, but might you have gotten more support from your Democratic colleagues had you consulted with them first before announcing the Resolution publicly?"
He explained that had he done that, the matter would have then been vetted by "Democratic consultants" who would have decided to kill the idea entirely before it could even be proposed on the floor. "Our party," he said, "is too beholden to Democratic consultants."
It seems the die is cast. The DC Don'ts have been blinded and stupefied by the Democratic consultant establishment to embrace a strategy that might produce incremental gains - at best.
While William F Buckley says the President has to admit Iraq is a defeat, and former NSA Director (under Reagan) General Odom says Iraq has been the greatest strategic disaster in American history, the Don'ts struggled to say that 2006 has to be a year of transition in Iraq - BFD.
The Don'ts live in some kind of a weird, deflated parallel universe where the reality of our universe just doesn't sink in. The Don'ts tiny universe isn't picking up the fact that the majority of the people think Iraq is a mistake, who think Congress should consider impeachment if Bush lied about Iraq, where near majorities are OK with censorship, and on and on.
While there is a vast seething river of rage against Bush and the RepublicSCUMS by association, the Don'ts seem incapable of tapping into it.
So the Don'ts will meekly bumble to the November elections, crouching in their caves like some ancient, timid mammals hiding from the big bad old T-Rexes, while hoping external events can deliver them victory.
Standing for something that matters is just too risky.