The Chickens (ha ha) Are Coming Home To Roost

With Bush's approval ratings at an all time low, even Bush's most ardent supporters have come out with harsh criticism and threats:

Some of President Bush's most influential conservative Christian allies are becoming openly critical of the White House and Republicans in Congress, warning that they will withhold their support in the midterm elections unless Congress does more to oppose same-sex marriage, obscenity and abortion.

On the issue of immigration, some of those crazy kids have even drafted articles of impeachment:

RESOLVED that George Walker Bush, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:

Tough medicine for the man whose favorite philosopher is White Jesus. Glen Greenwald looks at the impeachment push by La Shawn Barber and Michelle Malkin and deduces:

I think a lot of the Malkin types have become bored with the whole "War on Terror" business, which provided them good, strong emotional sustenance for the last four years. But September 11 is now almost five years away. There have been no good "battles" for a long time; we don't even pretend to capture or kill any high-ranking Al Qaeda members any more; and while invocations of "war" will always be good for some blood-rushing excitement, the whole thing seems so distant and abstract at this point. It's just not enough any more ...

As a result, attention gets turned to immigration -- Mexican immigration specifically. It entails the opportunity to rail against "appeasement" (of Vincente Fox); to create the anti-terrorist/pro-terrorist dichotomy on which they thrive; and to demonize a clear, foreign enemy as threatening not just our economic prosperity but also our national security (the "Mexican invaders"). And if the weakened, ready-to-be-tossed aside failure, George Bush, is one of the spineless appeasers this time, so be it.

Sounds about right. So what are they going to do? This stuff is good for mobilizing the base, but what chance is there really of the religious right, for example, staying home and not voting in the upcoming elections? I'd say zero to none. Given what these people think about the left, a disappointing Bush has to still be preferable to Satan worshipping democrats. They're frustrated, they believed they had a mandate but failed to see that Bush was just pandering, playing them for fools. As for the immigration issue, why the sudden outcry? There's a serious disconnect between the business faction of the right and the culture warriors. It's apparently a lot easier to get middle America to support tax breaks for the rich than getting them to understand why a head of lettuce only costs $.99.