Once Again the Democrats Disappoint

For the past couple of days Democrats and the MSM have been awaiting with happy anticipation polls measuring the damage done their unprecedented and coordinated assault on President Bush. Well, the results are coming in and the answer is..., tada, not much.

Comes today's Gallup Poll which shows that only 13% of the public has swallowed the line, so assiduously promoted in the MSM, that the Katrina catastrophe is President Bush's fault. Nor do they blame the federal agencies. Fewer than one in five respondents place blame there.

Read the results here.

Yet another disappointment for the Democrats and the MSM. Their decision to take direction from the hard left is increasingly marginalizing the party and its organs. Their endless assaults and the extreme virtriol they heap upon the president only diminish them in the public eye.

A generation ago starry-eyed young radicals began their "long march" through the institutions, and now we see what they have wrought. Not much has been accomplished other than to consign themselves to the "dustbin of history."

Listen close children. Daddy's gonna give you some good advice. You need it; you're screwing up, big time [as the Veep might say].

1) Carping and sniping and calling for investigations and denouncing the incumbent president is not, repeat NOT, the way to behave in the face of a national crisis. That's when people want the political classes to stand together against the troubles.

2) Your idiot cousins over at "MoveOn.org" are killing you. They're trying to use you as a vehicle to radicalize the mainstream of our political culture, and in the process they are drawing you out of that mainstream toward the margins. Cut the ties to these guys before they destroy you completely.

3) The process of marginalization has proceeded so far that the major institutions you control -- the universities, the major media, the activist networks, are already dismissed by most Americans as hopelessly biased. Endless, repetitive attacks lose their salience over time, and so do those who launch them. Yes..., I mean you.

Get with the program guys, before it's too late.