Or: A majority of Americans hold honor and honesty as important values.

At least that's the implication of the Wall Street Journal poll, caught by Raw Story and published in the Washington Wire (though now is virtually impossible to find), indicating that 69% of Americans support public hearings into the Plame leak.

What's more, 43% of Republicans support this. Maybe they remember that George W. Bush ran in 2000 as the man to restore honor and integrity to the White House, and want him to live up to that promise -- at least to the extent that's possible, after five years of lies, war, pillaging, pork and healthy amounts of self-righteous denials of any responsibility for anything that ever went wrong.

So far, with Bush the buck stops way down in the noncom ranks.

Yet 54% of the American people hold Bush responsible. And many more want this to be looked into -- publicly.

Needless to say, the Republicans in Congress, continuing their march out of step with Americans, oppose any inquiry that might hold anyone in their party responsible for anything.

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