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President Bush is the grandson of a graverobber.  A graverobber of Indian burial grounds.  Of Geronimo’s grave. I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that this is a bad thing.

The low gets lower. What’s also interesting is Bush’s disapproval rating.  The new poll has it at 65%.  That’s near-historical.  Nixon’s all-time high disapproval rating (it was on the day he resigned) was 66%.

According to Bush — WORST MOMENT OF HIS PRESIDENCY:  9/11 Well, that makes sense.  But what does he think  his best moment was? You know what Carter’s answer was to his "best moment"?  The Camp David negotiations. Clinton’s best moment?  Resolution of the Kosovo crisis BEST MOMENT OF DUBYA PRESIDENCY:  When he caught a big fish in his lake. No … Read More

Some conservative pundits and thinkers are trying to distance themselves from Bush these days by calling him (I still laugh at this) a "liberal".  Digby predicted this would happen last November.  The god for rightwingers is not Bush, but conservatism — so rather than admit that Bush’s obvious policy embarassments are the failure of conservatism, they hope to re-cast Bush’s … Read More

Goss announced that he is leaving his short tenure as the CIA director, a day after it was revealed that the Watergate hotel has been responding to subpeonae regarding the Cunningham-Wades-Wilkes prostitute scandal — a scandal to which Goss has been attached. [BACKGROUND:  Last week, Harper’s magazine reported that, for more than a decade, Cunningham-linked defense contractor Brent Wilkes curried … Read More

Pew Research: A new analysis by the Pew Research Center finds that while the president still has the support of a majority of white evangelical Protestants, significantly fewer of them now approve of his performance in office (55% approve, 38% disapprove) than was true at the start of his second term when 72% approved and only 22% disapproved.  

From A Tiny Revolution: The poll numbers are Gallup, which notes: "If current trends continue, by no means a certainty, Bush’s rating would be at an all-time low for any president of 22% by June of 2007." But right now, Bush’s disapproval is almost on a par with Nixon’s, on the day Nixon resigned.

First of all, I thought Bush killed at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner this weekend, but that’s because he had a Bush impersonator join him on the stage to deliver all the laughs. Stephen Colbert, who had to follow Bush, was comparatively — in my opinion — unfunny.  His video with Helen Thomas was long and pointless.  His monologue was … Read More

DATA POINT ONE Bush today: When the president was asked at a Rose Garden question-and-answer session whether the anthem should be sung in Spanish, he replied: "I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English, and I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English and they ought to learn to … Read More

The graphics tell it all.  Only four states (Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska and Utah) give Bush a higher-than-50% approval rating, compared with thirty-one states at the time of his re-election: Okay, the graphics don’t tell it all.  But this does.