Thank You, President Bush!

Rank-and-file Democrats might be feeling bad about their Congresscritters' capitulation on the Iraq War funding bill (as well they should on this darkest of Memorial Day weekends), but this report from the Pew Research group is the best news for liberals I've seen in a long while:

Increased public support for the social safety net, signs of growing public concern about income inequality, and a diminished appetite for assertive national security policies have improved the political landscape for the Democrats as the 2008 presidential campaign gets underway.

I especially like this graph - Thank You, President Bush!

•  Keeping things in perspective.

  The psychopath in the Oval Office, who leads a psychopath major American political party, was supported by 99% of psychotic legislators in his party yesterday.

  Yes, we are utterly disappointed in the leadership of our own party; we should be the responsible adults who need to effectively deal with the psychopaths across the aisle, and we failed to do this in every possible way.  Nonetheless I don't believe that the GOP attracted any new support yesterday; we can hope that the milquetoast Democrats are weeded out and replaced by Dems who fight for what's right, and we must give whatever support we can to make this happen.

  by Greasy Grant on Fri May 25, 2007 at 07:19:37 AM PDT

  •  Thorazine for Everybody! n/t

    by JeffW on Fri May 25, 2007 at 08:15:09 AM PDT

•  I want to see what happens to that

  when yesterday's collapse is added to the polling.  This helps a little, Ralph, but I'm afraid I'm going with "glass half empty" for a while. :(

  by CJB on Fri May 25, 2007 at 07:24:55 AM PDT