Smooth Move, Jackasses

A good summary of how the leadership of the donkey party has managed to put themselves on the wrong side of American opinion regarding the War On Terror, "spying" on al-Qaeda, etc.

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The leftist appeasement hounds are in full cry thinking they have the president up a tree, cornered and powerless to save himself and his party from being chewed to bits.

They had better take a second look - that’s not a tree he’s climbing, but the polls - where he’s quickly moving up into a position that will all but guarantee a crushing loss for defeatists in the 2006 House and Senate races.

In what may prove to be the most gigantic political miscalculation of all time, the Left's eager allies in the media bet all their marbles on the idea that President Bush’s policies in the War on Terrorism are his Achilles’ heel and would help them to win control of Congress in the 2006 elections.

They also eagerly jumped on the revelations that the U.S. had monitored communications between al-Qaeda terrorists abroad and al-Qaeda agents in the U.S., believing that the public would be angered by the operation which they and their media allies were falsely portraying as an assault on the civil rights of all Americans.

Boy, were they ever wrong. According to the authoritative Rasmussen poll:

A December 23, 2005, poll showed that fully 50 percent of American adults approve of the way George W. Bush is performing his role as president. That's up six points since the president's speech on Sunday night. It's also the first time since July that the president's job approval rating has reached the 50 percent mark. He earns approval from 81 percent of Republicans, 23 percent of Democrats, and 42 percent of those not affiliated with either major political party.

Another poll on December 28, 2005, showed that a whopping 64 percent of Americans believe the National Security Agency (NSA) should be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States. Just 23 percent disagree. That view is shared by 51 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of those not affiliated with either major political party.

Sixty-eight percent of Americans say they are following the NSA story somewhat or very closely and only 26 percent believe President Bush is the first to authorize a program like the one currently in the news. Forty-eight percent say he is not while 26 percent are not sure.