So Friday's credibility gap is actually simply a reflection of reality, namely, these poll results showing that people are starting to wake up.

Now wait a minute, I hear you saying, this poll isn't a credibility gap! It's just the results of one...

Not so, I'd contend, because people engage in groupthink all the time. They think the President is truthful because he sounds truthful. (Condi Rice said on the first and last time I'll ever watch the Today show that the President is "plain spoken" and so must be telling the truth, as if simple speech dictates empirical truth...the philosophical implications are astounding!) And so people go along with him. But if people start to question his truthfulness, he should naturally take pains to tell the truth, right? But the administration moves in the opposite direction each time. Did Bush say he'd release all of his military records? Yes. Simple. Has he done so? No. Should he? Sure.

Just look at what Condi was spinning on Larry King. She's officially off the deep end, along with Dicky C, the VPOTUS. And as Krugman points out once one person says "The Emperor has no clothes on" then everyone starts to realize its true. That's what's starting to happen today.