Tipping point?

Atrios:

If this previously mentioned WaPo poll is not a serious statistical outlier it's really stunning. Only 26% of the country support "changing the Senate rules to make it easier for the Republicans to confirm Bush's judicial nominees?"

I'm one who pegs Bush's base support at about 35%. By base, I mean "would rather eat shit and die than oppose dear leader." So, to get anything falling below that is truly stunning.

It's just possible the Schiavo debacle made the benefits of a truly independent judiciary painfully obvious. Maybe the one-two punch of Schiavo followed by Justice Sunday has pushed the exhausted public beyond its breaking point.