Through the looking glass with George and the R's - even the worst news is to their favor

once upon a time (although i'm rapidly forgetting when), bad news used to be bad news... at the rate we're going, bush and cheney could be indicted by fitz and it would still be claimed as in some way vindicating or supporting bushco's criminal behavior...

jamison foser, as usual, does his penetrating analysis...

The widespread media assumption that all of these political landmines for the GOP -- the Supreme Court decision, an extraordinarily unpopular president, Gen. George Casey planning for troop withdrawal from Iraq even as Republicans blast Democrats who are doing the same for wanting to "cut and run," North Korea's missile tests, continued threats from Al Qaeda -- are actually opportunities for Republicans or trouble for Democrats seems to rest in large part on the assumption that security issues automatically redound to the Republicans' benefit.

That's why, whenever Osama bin Laden surfaces with a new video- or audio-taped statement, media pundits are quick to declare that the reminder of the threat of terrorism is a political boon to the GOP -- instead of portraying it as a reminder that the Bush administration has failed to capture him nearly five years after the September 11, 2001, attacks. That's why the media portray a Senate debate in which every Republican except one endorses an unpopular president's unpopular plan to remain indefinitely in an unpopular war as a benefit to Republicans. That's why whenever there is a new disclosure of a Bush administration effort to spy on Americans, the media portray Democratic concern over possible trampling of civil liberties and constitutional rights as political suicide.

i'm having a great deal of difficulty grasping that i'm living in the same country i was living in 10 years ago, or even 6 years ago, or even, for that matter, LAST YEAR...

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