Liars, Damned Liars and Polls

The latest WaPo poll is a definite push poll. It asks whether you support or oppose "changing Senate rules to make it easier for the Republicans to confirm Bush's judicial nominees." 66% were opposed. Nothing was said about preventing nominees from even gettin a vote.

It's being dissed and refuted all over the place, and with good cause.

The chutzpah of big liberal newspapers never ceases to amaze me. However, it probably won't matter much. The Democrats are scrambling to avoid a showdown, and have changed their tune about "shutting down the Senate." Senator Dick Durbin talks like this whole thing was just a misunderstanding and spreads his reasonableness on thick, as if he never used a nominee's Catholic faith as an excuse to bottle his nomination up in committee and filibuster it to keep it from ever coming to a vote by the whole Senate. Gag me with a spoon!