Dick Meyer at CBSNews.com says Bush is already a lame duck, and that the religious right is pissed about it:
On the more distant right flank, the party's Christian soldiers have stopped being such good soldiers. They are furious that Bush and the Republican Congress have delivered lip service but no action on issues like gay marriage, immigration, prayer in school, obscenity standards and abortion. "I can't tell you how much anger there is at the Republican leadership," Richard Viguerie, a veteran conservative consultant and activist told The New York Times. "I have never seen anything like it."Dick just provided the Democrats with their agenda for the year - well, at least the hidden part of their agenda. Do everything you can to block the follow issues from getting addressed this year and the religious right will blow a gasket at the Republicans for being inept and unresponsive, thus furthering a rupture in the Republican party, depressing the religious right vote this fall, and more and more and more:
- gay marriage
- immigration
- pray in school
- obscenity/porn
- abortion
