Wow.  Stunning numbers.  There is a big difference between a majority that disapproves of Bush's handling of the war, and a majority that thinks the war is lost.  The war is going to be an even bigger issue in 2008, if that seems possible.

to tell him what I think as a Nevada resident about the job he's doing.

I'm sorry. Whether Reid intended to or not, his  comment was brilliant. Now we have the GOP drilling Reid's words into the nation's brains, over and over again, and shifted the debate to whether this war is still winnable. We have a majority who knows this is true, and growing. This is a debate i'm willing to have.

The fact is, when people realize the war is lost, and that these "consequences of pulling out" are already owed, the war debate is on Democratic ground. If we can't admit it's lost, then it will be Democrats who "lost" it by pulling out.

We can't pull out until it's common knowledge Bush failed, and there's no putting Humpty back together again.

This is the kind of message we need to spread as far and as wide as we can.  To all D.C. Democrats: the public is to your left on virtually every issue.  It doesn't feel that way because the traditional media is to your right on every issue.  

So here's the plan.  Go left, and when the media bitches, tell them to go Cheney themselves.  Oh, and be consistent, simple and straightforward in your rhetoric.  That's why Reid's comments worked. That's why the GOP is freaking out.

Hmmm..., 1004 respondents to the poll out of 300,000,000 Americans in the country.  I would have to question the sampling procedure first, then raise red flages over the actual questions used...but that's the difference between a cheap opinion poll with a 0.003% representation of the population with no validity or reliability of accurate sampling of the population, and a real research survey.

Ever since the debate started on the language of the war supplemental I have been arguing that the time would not be ripe for serious action by the Democratic caucus until it was ok to say "Bush lost the War." Harry Reid spoke those words and you could feel a seismic change in the national debate. The truth keeps erupting through the thick mantle of lies.

It reminds me of Barad-dûr the moment after the Ring is destroyed. America is awakening from the phony patriotic illusion built so carefully by Bush and the MSM after 911. The whole Bush edifice that seemed so dauntingly material and evil is collapsing into vapors--let's pray.

Thank goodness for that.  And plaudits to Harry Reid for tellin' it like it is.  Probably the most courageous public service of his illustrious career; imagine, brave enough to tell America it has lost a war.

The huge halo around Reid's head in the Reuters photo was hard not to notice, and reminiscent of the Bush halo pics.