Larry Kudlow does:

Our poll last night on CNBC suggests that investors are deserting the GOP. The poll asked when it comes to pork spending, which party was worse. Republicans earned profligate spending honors by a margin of fourteen points, 57 percent to 43 percent. This is a bad leading indicator for the GOP in terms of next year's mid-term election.

The Bush Republicans simply cannot afford to lose this key part of their base.

I've not been sold on the 'investor class' analytic construct, but it's still nice.

On cue, the anti-war marchers are bitching about the MSM not paying attention to them.  Demi and Ashton's marriage got more time than we did!  Waah!

Maybe this is unfair.  It probably is.  But unexpected?  No.  Every SINGLE time there's a liberal march, it is underreported.  Every single time.  There is ALWAYS a stupid right-wing counter protest of 400 lame people, and it still ALWAYS gets the same coverage so MSNBC can be balanced or whatever.

EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Ok, so let's do a thought experiment.  I'm an anti-war person, and I want to end the war.  Do I (a) march on Washington, knowing that I will be ignored and frustrated, or do I (b) find some other way to effect political change?

That's what I thought.

Yet somehow, we choose A, every single time.  So I think we have to ask ourselves, as the antiwar movement, are we really dedicated to the political objective of removing US troops from Iraq, or are we just part of the 'protest industry'?

• Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman helped put DHS Michael Brown in charge.
  
• Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu sent our troops to Iraq with her vote.  She was also going to be one of the critical votes repealing the estate tax next week, which would deprive our government of the resources necessary to protect critical infrastructure.  
  
• Democratic Governor Blanco did not allow the Red Cross into New Orleans, and Democratic Mayor Nagin kept empty schoolbuses empty instead of evacuating people from the city.
  
• The Army Corps of Engineers was funded to the tune of $748 million construction project right on the Industrial Canal where the most devastating breach occurred.  ("Unfortunately, the project involved building a new lock on the canal, which had nothing to do with flood control and was justified by a prediction that barge traffic would increase, which has not occurred.")

This is not just the time to throw the Bushniks overboard.  It's also the time for intraparty housecleaning.  Put progressives in charge.  We care about competence, so do the American people, and the Lieberman's and Blanco's of the world simply do not.

The New York Times Editorial Board is right.

Surely Representative Don Young, the Alaska Republican who is chairman of the transportation committee, might put off that $223 million "bridge to nowhere" in his state's outback. It's redundant now - Louisiana suddenly has several bridges to nowhere. Likewise, Speaker Dennis Hastert could defer his prized Prairie Parkway, a $200-million-plus project dismissed as a behemoth Sprawlway by hometown critics, and use the money to repair the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway.

The Democratic minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, could afford to donate back some multimillion-dollar plums - just one bike and pedestrian overpass, perhaps, or a ferry terminal. Another Democratic standout, James Oberstar of Minnesota, would have a hard time choosing from his cornucopia, but that $2.7 million for what is already described as the nation's longest paved recreational trail looks ripe.