It seems that Republicans have to constantly remind America that if Native Americans wanted to hold a Ghost Dance ceremony at Ground Zero, they can't because the Bureau of Indian Affairs didn't succumb to partisan political pressure and sanction any heathen activity in the United States. The Ghost Dance has been outlawed. What part of "illegal" don't the Democrats understand? "Naked Savages have rights too!," you say? Maybe, but not at Ground Zero.
If the Great White Father in Washington wants to approve building a railroad right-of-way across an Indian burial ground, that's OK because the future of the nation rides on the success of the iron horse. Everybody understands that.
Obviously, with the cutbacks in America's newsrooms, all the managing editors can not assign multiple members of the overworked staffs to cover the same story, but shouldn't some assignment editor tell at least one of America's trend-spotting experts to spend an afternoon before the fall elections gathering material which can be used to explain the sudden reversal of fortune story that is nothing short of incredible (in the true "I don't believe that!" meaning of the word)?
It's easy enough for some columnist to sit back and yuck it up over the fact that the well paid political reporters, who are trying to cope with the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, and a possible war with Iran, as well as the Teabaggers, the latest newsworthy quotes from Sarah Palin, the trials and tribulations of Alvin Greene, and the Blogavich verdicts, aren't writing feature stories about shifting poll numbers. Heck, just give them kudos for all they are doing and forget about the cause of the new Republican resurgence.
Are the assignment editors across America convinced that their audiences don't want an explanation or is it because they don't want to spend time and money to have their reporters produce a story that Rush Limbaugh would ridicule and mock?
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