What started the Republican slide? Schiavo, Katrina, Iraq?

[charlyvi]

Abramoff, Medicare Part D, Foley, the list goes on.

It would appear the American majority is waking up, but what was the precise moment of their awakening? Most of us have seen the evil since '00, so it can be difficult to point at one particular clusterfuck to answer this question. Maybe some of the newer members of DU, some who may have voted for shrub in '00 or '04 can tell us what changed them. Was it the PR disaster of Schiavo? The utter incompetence of our government revealed by Katrina? Or maybe the steady drip, drip, drip of bad news from Iraq? The scandals? The usurpation of our Constitution by a pack of power hungry, anti science Corporatists? The gay bashing, Democrat bashing, Clinton bashing, seriously hate-filled far right Dominionists? Honestly, I'd like to know. What was it?