The Anchoress wonders if Bush has pulled his foes into a game of Texas poker.

Seems too easy, doesn’t it? A Texas poker player suddenly shows his hand - and he does it confidently?

Only if he knows what everyone else is playing with.

The Democrats are too blind at this point, too intent on their feeding frenzy, too hobbled by hate, they have no more instincts and their perspective and their sensors are completely skewed. If they’re being set a trap, they can’t even see it.

Perhaps Bush WANTS to get them this riled up and set for impeachment, in order to coalesce the base…or…perhaps he finally has data that he can’t wait to show and he wants to show it in a certain way, and take down as many as he can.

I suspect that, if things work out the way the Anchoress predicts, that it will be more a matter of Bush's luck than any strategic ploy,

But, there is an eagerness, ever since Clinton's impeachment, to try to pull a tit for tat on Bush. Howard Fineman helps that along with his totally news-free musings about how Democrats are going to start pressing for Bush's impeachment this year by mentioning all the emails he gets demanding that Newsweek poll on whether or not people want Bush impeached. But James Taranto exposes Fineman's naivete by linking to an online chat that Richard Morin, the Washington Post's pollster had in which he was asked that question several time. And Morin finally unloaded about how sick he is of getting these astroturf requests ginned up by some website.

For the past eight months or so, the major media pollsters have been the target of a campaign organized by a Democratic Web site demanding that we ask a question about impeaching Bush in our polls.

The Web site lists the e-mail addresses of every media pollster, reporters as well as others. The Post's ombudsman is even on their hit list.

The Web site helpfully provides draft language that can be cut-and-pasted into a blanket e-mail.

The net result is that every few months, when this Web site fires up the faithful with another call for e-mails, my mailbox is filled with dozens and dozens of messages that all read exactly the same (often from the same people, again and again). Most recently, a psychology professor from Arizona State University sent me the copy-and-paste e-mail, not a word or comma was changed. I only hope his scholarship is more original.

We first laughed about it. Now, four waves into this campaign,we are annoyed. Really, really annoyed.

Some free advice: You do your cause no service by organizing or participating in such a campaign. It is viewed by me and others with the same scorn reserved for junk mail. Perhaps a bit more.

That said. we do not ask about impeachment because it is not a serious option or a topic of considered discussion--witness the fact that no member of congressional Democratic leadership or any of the serious Democratic presidential candidates in '08 are calling for Bush's impeachment. When it is or they are, we will ask about it in our polls.

Enough, already.

By the way, Taranto's column today is a must read. I especially enjoyed his comments on Reid's bragging that in his little town of Searchlight, Nevada, they didn't even have English class and that is why he mispoke and bragged about killing the Patriot Act when he really meant to brag about killing the cloture vote on the Patriot Act. What kind of schools don't have English class? I'd like some enterprising reporter to dig up the curriculum from Searchlight's schools when Harry Reid was there. And, as Taranto reminds us,

This is the same Harry Reid who, a little over a year ago, called Justice Clarence Thomas "an embarrassment to the Supreme Court" because "I think that his opinions are poorly written." If Reid's literacy is as defective as he himself claims it is, doesn't this make him, by his own standard, an embarrassment to the Senate?

Further, if Reid never even had an English class, what qualifies him to evaluate Justice Thomas's writings?

Yup, Harry Reid, bragging about his lack of an education while he knocks other people. Charming