Poll Governance
Turns out the Dem Cong are governing with pinpoint smart-bomb poll-guided accuracy. This, via Joyner:
Public Opinion Strategies* has released a survey [PDF file here] of likely voters’ attitudes toward the Iraq War that finds that most voters think the country is going in the wrong direction (67%) and President Bush is doing a poor job (60%), and that Iraq will never be a stable democracy (60%). No real surprises there, right?
However:
- 57% believe “The Iraq War is a key part of the global war on terrorism.”
- 57% “support finishing the job in Iraq, that is, keeping the troops there until the Iraqi government can maintain control and provide security for its people.
- 50% want our troops should stay and “do whatever it takes to restore order until the Iraqis can govern and provide security to their country” while only 17% favor immediate withdrawal
- 56% believe “Even if they have concerns about his war policies, Americans should stand behind the President in Iraq because we are at war.”
- 53% believe “The Democrats are going too far, too fast in pressing the President to withdraw the troops from Iraq.”
Thus far immobilized from taking any action beyond expressing some wishful thinking, an anti-war Congress … which senses viscerally it is on the wrong side of history and is afraid to act … is accurately reflecting the will of an American people who have been successfully depressed and confused about our prospects and direction in this war, but still don’t want to surrender.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:17 am on Wednesday, February 21, 2007
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February 21st, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Thus, Murtha’s “slow bleed” strategy. Cowards all.