GOP outfoxed while Dems get out of the way

You know things are going downhill for George W. Bush and the Republican congress when even Fox News can no longer hide the bad news. The most recent Fox poll found the president's approval rating at 33%. That's Nixon-during-Watergate territory.

Meanwhile only 25% approve of the job the Congress is doing, with 54% agreeing that this is a "do-nothing" Congress.

What's shocking about this is that it's still not clear that the Democrats will make any significant gains in November. Last night at UW Oshkosh, Code Pink's Medea Benjamin explained why. She said consultants have advised the national Democratic Party that "when a tree is falling, the best thing to do is get out of the way." Indeed, that does seem to be the Democrats' strategy right now, which explains the party leadership's lukewarm or no support at all for even mild gestures like Feingold's censure resolution or Jack Murtha's plan to redeploy the troops in Iraq.