When you renounce reality, there’s no need to tell the truth.

i dunno. maybe we just do less of the blind hero-worship thing. (ya think?)

www.ballstocongress.com

The D-controlled Congress has disapproval ratings that are neck-and-neck with Bush’s. Does that make them the least popular Congress ever?

Are voters now suffering cognitive dissonance and rationalization for having voted Democrat?

The problem with this meme is that it only makes sense if you refuse (or don’t know how) to explain what the phrase “I disapprove of Congress” is actually supposed to mean in practical terms. That’s something that is trivially easy to do for the presidency.

Q: What does Bush think of Roe vs. Wade?
A: He doesn’t care how you get out of New Orleans.

But they will listen to the jokes, if people start making them.

So, this woman named Awlin decided to build a nursery, and sell plants. Problem was, every time the heavy rains came, too many of her decorative plants died. She racked her brain figuring out what to do, and finally started selling decorative hedges instead of trees. After all, she figured, (Draw out the n in “when”) when Awlin’s floods, Bush don’t do nothing.

(Probably not funny. But if enough people found it amusing, and it spread, it’d have more power than all the arguments in the world.)

Here’s an imitation of George Bush in a crisis:

(Deer in headlights… then turn to imaginary friend) “Condi, do you remember Dick’s cell phone number?”

Are voters now suffering cognitive dissonance and rationalization for having voted Democrat?

John Cole at Balloon Juice is one of the very few public figures who renounced his support of GWB. And for that I have (at least some) respect.

“And nothing is going to convince the pundits until people start talking enough about it.”

The pundits really only listen to each other. People are already fed up with Bushism, but it goes unremarked among the Villigers.

Until Drudge, or Broder, or Friedman, etc. flip, the current narative will continue on, diverging more and more from reality.

And like many chaotic systems (chaos theory), when it flips it will be quick and more or less completely.

And those of us who experienced war with Eastasia before the change, will be quickly made to understand that we are at war with Eurasia, and always have been…

Giving up a hero means giving up all those good thoughts you had about him, and feeling ashamed of yourself for having felt that good about him, and maybe even admitting that you were wrong about other people (”shit, I called liberals *traitors* for opposing this disaster!”)

You do need a smackdown, but keep in mind that *no* smackdown is going to work on the person who proudly refuses to accept the LiberalAttackMachine’s nastiness against the Noble GeorgeW. And nothing is going to convince the pundits until people start talking enough about it.

Herm. What you need is a set of good jokes. That will do more than a thousand cogent arguments.