Poll Semantics, Dark Journies, and Reality

Tucson, Arizona. The press is releasing various political polls showing what everyone already knows, which is that people are upset, frustrated, and angry at levels from mild irritation to foaming at the mouth. Bush’s approval rating stinks and for good reason. Poll PDF.

We also have polls supporting my assertion that Hillary will face Giuliani.

Granted, we have a long way to go and much could occur to alter the situation. Hillary is also placing online Web 2.0 ads at various news sites.

As a poll moves from assessing an individual to assessing a group, the semantics blur. Numbers for the White House are the easiest to interpret. In general, the country disapproves of the fiasco this administration has created. For the Supreme Court, the drop in approval probably reflects its shift to the right of public sentiment, and I would speculate the public is concerned about the right to choose, and the savvy also worry about the need for progress on the right to die. In both areas, empowering the individual and loved ones to make the decision is progress. Those who stand in the way just baffle me.

Regarding Congress, your humble blogger does not see how anyone can disaggregate overall disapproval of Congress, even when language calls it the "Democratic Congress" to a single election in a single district. Perhaps if the number were low enough, incumbents have cause for alarm, but which incumbents? Perhaps one could forward an argument that incumbents perceived as "status quo" have a problem. Well, who is that? Arizona freshmen?

My radar points to a faucet metaphor. The disastrous 2000 election turned on a faucet that has spewed forth a holocaust at the hands of Lord Cheney and Darth Rove utterly unchecked and given free reign by a GOP majority in Congress. The 2006 election was a national cry: Turn it off!! Turn it off!!

My interpretation of the frustration with Congress comes from its inability to do so as quickly as desired. For the red to interpret frustration with the blue as a good thing could not be more mistaken. Mr. Red, consider that the public wants you dead. Consider that the drop in approval of Congress comes from frustration with its inability to slit your throat.

Impeaching BOTH Bush and Cheney to put Pelosi in the White House just can’t fly. Be reasonable. What is viable is turning the faucet down and starting investigations to hold the responsible to account. Congress has done this.

Only after a blue wave in 2008 can we look at how to turn the faucet off, and even then, it is going to be difficult, complicated, and time consuming. In case some aren’t following, I am talking about Iraq, Afghanistan, China, health care, global warming, poverty, China, campaign finance reform, immigration, China, globalization, North Korea, the deficit, China, social security, Iran, lobbying reform and corruption, China, corporate welfare, energy, separation of church and state, China, education, transportation and economic infrastructure, the impending mortgage crisis, China. Did I forget Al Queda?

See the news today on mortgage companies? Tipadaberg.