The really silly thing is they ramp the attacks on Bush's anti-terrorism efforts up so high, and have the big media outlets helping them do so, to the point they really do burn that message into voters' brains, and then, outside of the really true believers, they go out and vote for confirmation of people like Hayden (or in the House, vote against stuff like Murtha's immediate troop withdrawal plans).

The combination both loses them support with the American public on the issue of who is going to best keep you and your family from being killed on U.S. soil, and makes the angry voices on the left even angrier, because they're deluded into believing they have the big mojo on their side and then see almost two dozen Democratic senators vote to confirm Bush's CIA nominee. It's the worst of both worlds (unless you're Hillary, and your trying to remain viable in the '08 general by voting sanely in Congress while relying on your own base of party faithful to sneak past the Deaniacs in the primaries).

What is confusing to me is how the Democrats get themselves into this position of opposing and supporting the president at the same time. They voted 25-14 to confirm him, what was the point of all the anti-Hayden talk in the first place?

Harry Reid even voted yes.

Polls, smolls. Never pay any attention to what lefties say, only watch what they do if you wish to find out where things stand. Bush must be focus grouping very well or his initiatives would be down the drain instead sailing through.