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Much is being remarked on this recent Pew poll showing a precipitous drop in Americans claiming loyalty to the Republican brand and a concurrent up-tic in those suddenly deciding to get an ass tattooed on their ass.                                             

    
Pardon my skepticism, but the sooner the assumption that whoever wins the Democratic nomination will inevitably defeat whatever pathetic turd the Republicans nominate the sooner the chance the Democrat will defeat the turd increases.

That isn't what the poll itself asserts, but the scent I get from Blogsylvania and Mediaopolis- and the unremitting turdiness of the turds running for King Pig contribute mightily to the scent - is it's simply not a matter of if a Democrat can win but which Democrat will win. Not whether the Dems will hold the House and the Senate, but just how big a majority can they build.

America is moving Left, slowly, tectonically, inevitably, but a jump as drastic as on the above chart between 2002 and 2007 reflects events on the skin, not in the bones. It takes a political philosophy of remarkable craptitude, marshaling not only greed and corruption but also utter belief in its own utter bullshit and its own utter sense of entitlement to foment the utter shitstorm currently blizzarding America.

Which is why - sorry, here's my hobbyhorse - Democrats, Liberals, bloggers, loyal citizens, need to make sure that the issue is not George Bush but the philosophy of governance of those who sponsored, promoted, paid for and protected George Bush's elevation to power. He was to be the amiable cowboy America wanted to drink a beer with while the oligarchs disassembled New Deal America. 911 may have changed W from figurehead to deeply and dangerously delusional wannabe-dictator, but 911 changed none of the motives of those who picked him for figurehead in the first place.

Bush is a klutz whose ineptitude and stubborn stupidity and proud intransigence has revealed to the American public the motives of those who would control him. I'm not sure those Americans who've switched brands in the last five years have made the leap from despising Bush to despising what - and who - he represents. Unless Democrats can help those Americans make that connection there will inevitably be a Pew Poll in the not so distant future mirroring in reverse the one above.

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I don't disagree with the gist of Brownstein - it will take Bush working with Democrats and visa versa for any meaningful positive change in Iraq policy to work - but I'm sick of the meme that Democrats are half responsible for Bush's refusal to work with Democrats.

George Bush is a fuckyouer. The only way to work with a fuckyouer is to work against him. There are no compromises with someone who won't compromise. It is not one's fault one is forced to negotiate with a fuckyouer; one is not half to blame when the fuckyouer tells you to fuck off. Fuck.

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Holy shit. Don't know if I believe it will happen, but it's a sign of where we are that I believe it's horrifyingly possible.

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James Dobson on Fred Thompson: Not Jesusy enough. I invite - no, I implore - James Dobson to remain a 25-percenter.

UPDATE: Egalia has more.

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An ATC story on the new royalty fees that will DESTROY ONLINE RADIO. Listen to the huckfack speaking for increased fees: he's the poster boy for Greed Over Profits.

This reminds me Viacom suing YouTube: what's a billion dollars against the future? N-O-T-H-I-N-G.

What's bankrupting online radio stations - eliminating, in essense, your research and development labs investigating and creating new product - versus consolidating your hold over shitty genre music distribution? S-T-U-P-I-D beyond greed.

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Hell.

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