Behold the unfolding of a tipping point, the camels back is breaking,

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its happening now, right now, slowly at first, starting with Schiavo, the public revulsion at the Social Security plan, then the biggest bomb of all, Katrina, Iraq a constant slow boil all the time, Abramoff and Delay, the ridiculous Medicare drug benefit, it started slowly, but suddenly it has spiraled out of control. The majority of americans have come to accept that Bush is a corrupt and incompetent man.

Bush is over. What you are seeing is a major turning point, a major shift in public opinion. This is going to have a long lasting impact on our society.

Its way too easy to get fixated on minutia, details, to fail to see the forest for the trees. You have to stand way back to see the pattern. There is a lot of confusion. The republicans are completely panicked, leaderless, and desperate. That explains this idiotic idea of raising the immigration issue, something that conflicts their own base, and it explains McKinney, she's a buffoon and they were quick to try to use her as a desperate distraction from their own corruption (but it won't work, trust me, its like trying to bail out the Titanic with a teaspoon).

The public really hasn't digested it all yet, and thats why the democrats appear disorganized, there is not yet a clear direction to organize around.

There is chaos, the public has had this stark black and white picture painted for it for 5 years now, it was told that its all very simple and there's only one narrow path. Having found that is a lie, the people have no direction, they may bolt this way or that like a nervous herd for a while, until the mood coalesces into something more defined.

But thats all just part of the process of a major tipping, a major revolution in perception, a major change in direction.

The important thing is that once this point has been reached, the point of panic, confusion, desperation, its irrevocable. Bush is broken and he can't be put back together again. Its like falling out of love, looking at her or him and saying to yourself "what was I thinking." The shame at having been so wrong is projected back as hate for the person who deceived you. It is truly over for Bush, and not just Bush, he may have weakened his party to the point it will lose it all in November.

Another sign of it is the way the news doesn't even shock anymore, its scandal after corruption after scandal after incompetence, and its become the norm now to hear read and see stories of Bush flip-flopping and waving 9-11 and screwing up and tanking in the polls. And noone cares. If you are too caught up in the details and minutiae, you will be angry that noone cares, but actually, its just anothers sign of how bad things are for Bush that people don't care.

Republicans don't bother to defend him anymore, I hope everyone is seeing this, noone defends him anymore. It has become impossible.

The nation has finally reached that point where, as nice and patient and sometimes stupid as the public is, as much as they want to believe things are okay, as much as they want to believe our leaders know what they are doing, it has become clear that Bush is bad, that what he says is not true, that its all lies and fantasies.

His bubble has burst. The emporer is naked, and the people see it now.

When the public changes its mind, things happen. This will be interesting, and exciting.