Is it wrong that this blurb about Bush’s approval rating on Eric Alterman’s MSNBC blog made me smile?
This just in: The new ABC News/Washington Post poll, here, shows 52 percent of Americans disapprove of the job President Bush is doing overall, reports ABC News’ Polling director Gary Langer — the most in more than 75 ABC/Post polls since his presidency began. His approval rating is 48 percent.
Bush’s Iraq approval ratings haven’t fared much better: 41 percent said they approve of the job the President is doing in Iraq, while 58 percent disapprove — matching his career-high Iraq disapproval mark.
George W. Bush’s approval rating is now a full twenty points lower than Bill Clinton’s was on the day he was impeached. Dear media, that means you gotta stop referring to him as a “popular president,” and no less important, stop treating him like one. If you want to be wimps about everything, fine, just don’t blame it on his ‘popularity.’ Blame it on yourselves.
That does wonders for my optimism. Maybe the general population isn’t as completely clueless as they seemed to have been in the past. Maybe.




















Clinton was impeached? Why the fuck haven’t they impeached Bush? Oh yeah, Americans are idiots.