There are lots of ways to spin a good delusion out of some recent polling, like CBS likes to do with their biased polls:

Poll: 71% shun GOP handling of debt crisis

Only a fool would translate this into thinking 71% want what the Dems and Obama are selling. The fact is, the conservative and Tea Party voters are not going to support posturing, speeches and foggy promises/deals. Until there is something tangible produced (like tomorrow’s vote), no support is coming.

That is because DC is out of political capitol. It is completely spent of trust and respect. Only clear and strong actions will get praise.

BTW, fudged polls are not going to change opinions. In the spectrum of believability, after BS speeches and vague promises comes political polls. As Ed Morrissey notes at Hot Air, this poll is so flawed it is not even based on mathematics anymore. It is pure propaganda. CBS News lots its credibility a decade ago. Digging their grave deeper is not changing any games here.

Anyway, right now the best way to turn these numbers around for the GOP is to stick with calling Obama’s bluff: Pass the bill in the House, and tell the Senate and White House to do their job. If Obama vetoes it, he will own all the fall out.

Enough zero sum games. We get cuts by legislation or by The Sword of Damocles – (the debt limit). Either way, the federal government is going on a fiscal diet.