wow, what an interesting new idea, the liberal media canard. Is this the same liberal media that said Steele was going to win and the "72 hour" strategy erased all gains Democrats had? If you need to believe that people are conspiring against you because your extreme right wing ideology isn't supported by any facts on the ground, then elections are the least of your problems. No one is interested in a monarchical president with no checks and balances, it's just that simple. Accountability, not catchphrases. Sometimes the truth just conspires against you.

You must have missed the story in today's NY Times, "Afghans Losing Faith in Nation's Path, Poll Shows." In there, they say that 44% of Afghans believe their country is headed "in the right direction."

Actually, Sean, it's the media that believes that abortion is great, that guns only belong in the hands of the police and military, that higher tax rates means more money to the Treasury, that taking money from workers and giving it to slackers is good, that government should control all aspects of business and finally, that no matter what the "people" vote for, it's ok for unaccountable judges to reverse their will or for them to just rule on something without ever allowing a vote.

That's the one we are talking about. Once you graduate high school, you might learn it yourself.

On the media front, look for all the homeless to disappear again, and it will now be commendable for Congressmen to have actual sex with underage Pages...again.

David,

That is because the NY Times put itself in to such an anti-Bush tizzy that they'll be a while coming out of it...

Actually, you make a couple of assumptions that are incorrect.

Firstly you're assuming that just because polling was unsuccesful in areas accounting for roughly 3% of the Afghan population, that this corresponds directly to the areas that are actually dangerous. The article does not state that the Taliban are only resurgent in areas corresponding to a small percentage of the population - in fact it doesn't comment on the areas in which the Taliban are resurgent at all.

Also this article uses some sketchy logic:

"The poll found that:

•Afghans were more than twice as likely (44% to 21%) to think their country was headed in the right direction, rather than the wrong direction; 29% had mixed feelings. Still, the optimists were down from 64% in a smaller Asia Foundation survey conducted in 2004.

By contrast, Iraqis have a bleaker outlook. A Sept. 1-4 World Public Opinion Poll of more than 1,000 Iraqis showed that 47% thought their country was going in the right direction, while 52% thought it was going the wrong way."

So the Iraqis have a bleaker outlook than the Afghans - except that only 44% of Afghans thought that their country was going in the right direction, and 47% of Iraqis thought that their country was going in the right direction. The only difference is in the "no" category. How do we know that there was even a "mixed feelings" category in the Iraq poll? This is an invalid comparison.

Finally, you're jumping to the conclusion that press coverage is nice and sunny because the Democrats won. There is no mention whatsoever in this article about the connection between this poll and a win by the Democrats. In fact, had the Republicans won, this article would have been trumpeted as a measure of success for Bush's foreign policy. So again, you are making a link where there is none - there is no credit given in this article to the Democrats for how Afghans are feeling.

It's one thing to write about facts - but you're jumping all over the place, and this sort of conjecture doesn't make you seem like a reliable blogger - it just seems like you, like so many others, are just rubber-stamping the Republican war wagon rather than engaging in critical thought.

"Actually, Sean, it's the media that believes that abortion is great..." Any evidence of this anywhere?

"that guns only belong in the hands of the police and military" Again, any evidence of this fact or more paranoia.

"That higher tax rates means more money to the Treasury"...but cutting tax rates on the top one percent during wartime is much better right? Again, what media outlet says this?

"that taking money from workers and giving it to slackers is good" again, what media outlet says this? Stop spinning, and cite fact.

"that government should control all aspects of business"...government should help stop abuses like Enron, I assume you agree with that?

"and finally, that no matter what the "people" vote for, it's ok for unaccountable judges to reverse their will or for them to just rule on something without ever allowing a vote." It's called checks and balances, and it's in the Constitution. Look it up.

Stop blaming everyone else for the unpopularity of your selfish me first ideology. It's been rejected. Soundly.