GOP, Meet Backlash

Ever since the 2004 election, the GOP has been riding high on a wave of "values" voters who supposedly were in lock-step with the party's fundamentalist religious wing. But now, it seems that the follies of Tom "What Grand Jury?" DeLay and crew during the Schiavo scrum are coming back to haunt the GOP. A new USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll shows that, among other things, a majority of the population sees the GOP as "'trying to use the federal government to interfere with the private lives of most Americans' on moral values," while Democrats aren't. A whopping 76% disapprove of Congress's role in the Schiavo affair. And finally, folks have shifted from thinking that the fundies had the right amount of influence in the Dubya regime to having too much influence.