Where's The Outrage?

It came out last week, but everyone should read this McClatchy article. The news about our government, as usual, is bad:

For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates.

The administration intensified its efforts last year as President Bush's popularity and Republican support eroded heading into a midterm battle for control of Congress, which the Democrats won.

Facing nationwide voter registration drives by Democratic-leaning groups, the administration alleged widespread election fraud and endorsed proposals for tougher state and federal voter identification laws. Presidential political adviser Karl Rove alluded to the strategy in April 2006 when he railed about voter fraud in a speech to the Republican National Lawyers Association.

Voter fraud is a very important issue for Republican Party's political masterminds. Unfortunately for them, it doesn't exist at anywhere near the scale that would elevate it to a crisis, so from time to time they have to fudge the numbers (subs. req.) a bit.

And yet there's still a dearth of real outrage. Sure, Bush's poll numbers are low, but that's passive -- a "when I have time to think about politics, it makes me mad" sort of outrage. Given what we now know about the Bush administration and what can no longer be caricatured as liberal madness (which is was for years and years) but has instead taken its place as fact -- everything from Iraq to Katrina to spying to the more recent U.S. attorneys scandal and the politicization of the GSA -- why does it still feel like most people don't fully understand the impact their leaders can have on them and the country?