Reality Makes a Come Back

Every pol's nightmare: Grassley gets old-ladied at a townhall (in Jones Town by the looks of it)

It comes as a pleasant surprise to learn that the teabagger stance (sorry for the unintended mental image) actually seems to be failing. Even though you could be forgiven for assuming the BS, mostly centered around healthcare reform, must be politically advantageous, reality would indicate otherwise.

Good to know, for instance, that Chuck Grassley's personal sell-out to the lunatic fringe/insurance company alliance has backfired with a pretty monumental 17% drop in approval amongst the voters in his home state of Iowa:

"A poll last week for the Des Moines Register put Republican Senator Chuck Grassley's support among Iowans at 57 percent, down from 75 percent in January... Democrats had believed that Grassley's seat was safe and had not really mobilized any real opposition. However with a 17% drop in support many Democrats are seriously discussing that Grassley's senate seat could be vulnerable."

And, despite the best efforts of Obama to undersell the public option as a means of appeasing the unappeasable, more of the public want an option than they did last month:

"The latest CBS/ New York Times poll shows 65 percent of Americans saying they are in favor of a public option, and 26 percent oppose it. In August, 60 percent were in favor of the plan."

After an August full of yelling and astroturf mini-putsches, maybe we can be reassured that this crap still doesn't work in America? The Beck/Limbaugh/Palin unintelligentsia will keep on trying but, just maybe, they'll be the only ones stupid enough to believe their antediluvian, Pre-Bush hackery can still resonate.