-Support for the initial invasion of Iraq is back on the rise

-People seeing progress and hope through the latest offensive on the rise

-overall Congressional approval rating lower than President’s and lowest in American history (not sure if lower than before Civil War, but would be interested in seeing)

-Surge is succeeding in most areas (kinda stupid to say a military offensive isn’t succeeding because political objectives aren’t being met since military ops aim to succeed at military objectives)

Yep, gonna be tough to be a Democrat and get more than 3% support after General P’s report next month.

Fact is, last fall the polls were dead even until Democrats promised that their New Direction in Iraq would be a new plan for success. Reid, Pelosi, Dean and others advocated sending more troops. Then the Dems broke out of the deadlock and took the lead in the polls. They won control of Congress/made the President a lame duck. Bush sent more troops, and the Democrats flipped back and demanded immediate withdrawal under the claim that they’d been given a mandate by the American people to start a new direction in Iraq. Problem is, Bush provided that new direction. He sent more troops as Democratic Party leaders advocated, but those same leaders couldn’t possibly tell their base that they agreed with the President regardless of how right any decision he ever makes might be. Why? Because they’re still fighting to win the 2000 and 2004 elections by Bush bashing despite the fact that he’s not even on the ticket in 08. That’s how deep their frustration and alienation is seated. Good decisions are irrelevent if they can’t be backed by Bush hate.

and now, the chickens are coming home to roost. The anti-war, immediate withdrawal, runaway at any cost crowd is as frustrated as the American people who were misled into believing that the Democrats’ promised New Direction was a new direction for success; American success. The DNC leaders have pissed off 97% of the nation when it comes to their handling of the Iraq war (err, “situation” per Speaker Pelosi).

Good news is that they can’t go any lower now.

Can they?

I do not know what will wake the left up, but I am willing to bet that if they win the Presidency in 2008, they will not only keep the provisions of the Patriot Act, but erase the civil protections within the act and expand the government survailence network. Only their focus will shift from actual terrorism/islamofascism to chasing political opponents and “militias”. The terrorists will still attack us, but only the really big attacks will make news. Those will be answered with cruise missle attacks against empty camps.

They have the right to remain dead silent, especially the ‘dead’ part.