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Monday 
05 May 2008
first to worst
it’s really quite impressive.
in the annals of going from the penthouse to the outhouse, no one has gone as spectacularly as george bush.
A new poll suggests that President Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as president.
“No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup Poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president’s disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark,” said Keating Holland, CNN’s polling director.
if you connect the dots between this figure and bush’s 90% approval rating shortly after 9/11 (a fabulous, perfect irony in its own right), the path described is that of a black hole. truth and beauty and treasure and soldiers and civilians and dignity and clarity and love and laughter go in, but they never come out.
it’s a flame-out of epic, historic proportions. a bonfire of inanities, if you will. and even if you won’t.
further down this road, it’s worth noting (again) that 66% of republicans still approve of the job bush is doing. which raises at least a couple questions:
1. why are republicans so out of touch with the rest of america?
2. what would bush have to do to earn the enmity of republicans?
3. why do republicans hate america so much?
it’s also worth noting that after 7+ years of raping the world and pillaging this country, bush is still president. meanwhile, it is posited by some, barack obama should not become president because of something someone else said.
isn’t it rich? isn’t it ironic? don’tcha think?
i digress.
in a short time, bush managed to squander not only his ersatz “political capital,” but the very real and valuable goodwill of the rest of the world. he continues to burn up massive piles of money that don’t belong to him, and burn down america’s reputation.
for anyone else, this would’ve been a tremendous undertaking, but george has made it look effortless. almost as if it were what he set out to do all along.
if so, perhaps some orwellian, up-is-down, stupid-is-smart congratulations are in order.
to quote john mccain: mission accomplished.
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I’m certain Bush pouts himself to sleep each night about his 29%. But at least he more than doubles Pelosi et al. at their nadir in 2007: 14%. It would appear that America hates Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Hillary, Obama, and so on more deeply and completely than they hate Bush.
In fact, democrat-controlled congress has consistently trailed Bush.
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i’m sure that thought will comfort you this fall when the democrats have locked down veto-proof majorities in both houses of congress.
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No doubt. If Obama wins, we’ll hold our breath for the republican bump in 2010 and hope to unscramble the egg in 2012.