Gallup has a new poll which shows that only 21% of Americans think Bush has “gone too far” on civil liberties and 19% think he hasn’t “gone far enough.” Most people think Bush has done “about right.” I don’t normally care much about polls, but this does illuminate a few issues in an entertaining way. All of the bleating, whining, screeching and righteous bloviating from Democratic politicians, civil libertarians, pundits etc has done almost nothing to convince anybody that the Patriot Act is the great threat to human liberty they say it is. In fact, since 21% of Americans would probably say that Bush has “gone too far” on civil liberties if the Patriot Act was never even written, you could say that opponents have been wasting everyone’s time.