Popular Uprising

This is great to see-- large, organized opposition to Bush's desperate privatization roadshow. W is fighting the only way he knows, with pre-screened crowds and pre-screened questions. But the AARP is taking out ads in the papers of every city he visits, and large crowds of protestors are showing up-- in the words of one report, "of all ages, colors and backgrounds." (That's a paraphrase)

Even the mainstream press is having trouble portraying this as anything less than what it is-- a flailing attempt by the administration to push a hugely unpopular and horribly flawed plan to end a successful government program. A program which, incidentally, keeps large numbers of "red state" seniors above the poverty line.