[lbo-talk] Reuters: Bush support down to 31% public backs Dems' goals

[B.]

I guess my optimism about a whopping 92% favoring
prescription drug pricing cuts (I think I posted about
a recent problem I had with this, myself; I had to get
aid from a local church to pay for some medicine I
needed, one of the most surreal things I have ever had
to do in my life); and the over 80% favoring of cuts
in student loan repayments got the best of me.

I am not optimistic about the public's attitudes right
now towards the war (or towards war in general), or
the kind of slavish worshipfulness of soldierly power
that undergirds much of American society, the jingoism
that seems to almost biologically inhere in the US
public. So, to add to your sentiment, yeah, a record
44 self-professed "blue dog Democrats" (that is,
conservative Dems) are in Congress now.

-B.

Marvin wrote:

"But you chose for some reason to omit what was the
most relevant (and discouraging) part of the report
which shows how confused Americans are about the war -
a confusion which has been fostered through the media
all week by the leadership of both parties which does
not want public pressure to force the pace at which US
forces are withdrawn from Iraq:"