The American Street, unheard

This from Harris Interactive:

Overall, how would you rate the job U.S. president George W. Bush has done in handling the issue of Iraq over the last several months?

	Oct. 2005	Sept. 2005	Jul. 2005
Positive	32%	34%	34%
Negative	66%	65%	64%
Not sure	2%	2%	2%

So what does this tell you? A 66% negative rating (and I imagine those positive 32% would still be giving Dubya a grinning thumbs up the day after Armageddon) that translates into, uh,three or four antiwar congressmen and oh, say, zero senators? How many of our representatives DIDN'T discover a scheduling conflict when the antiwar march came to town?

I like what Leahy said, but how specific did he get? And he said "the president [has to have] a plan that will bring our troops home." The PRESIDENT? Don't hold your breath.

And Kerry now says withdraw 20,000 troops and ... hold a conference. Apparently he decided his call in June for MORE troops didn't poll well. The bottom line is that the Republicans were right about him.

And the rest of the leading Democrats? Arianna is all over them. But maybe they know something we ignorant American streeters don't know. That there are questions you just don't ask, and people you just don't cross. To Hillary and Biden and Kerry, maybe it's clear. Cross the Pentagon and the arms manufacturers, question the morality, legality, even self-interested practicality of this perpetual war against a tactic (as practiced by amateurs, not professionals), and you've shot your career to hell.

But that's their problem, not ours.

Well, of course, it's our problem too.