After a brief respite...

Ah, faithful readers, thank you for your patience. At long last, I have returned. Sorry about the unplanned sabbatical; for a while there I was swamped with finishing up the semester and working. But no more. So, back to business.

First of all, a brand new poll from the Wall Street Journal has found that Bush's approval ratings have dipped into the twenties for the first time ever. The poll found that a mere 29% of Americans think shrub is doing an "excellent or pretty good job" as president.

Yup, that's right. The Roaring Twenties. As in, that's the roar of pissed-off commuters ready to vote Halliburton out of office.

What's more, this new poll comes just on the heels of a New York Times/CBS News poll two days ago that found Bush's approval rating to be a then-new low of 31%, which tied " the low point of his father in July 1992, four months before the elder Mr. Bush lost his bid for a second term to Bill Clinton. That is the third lowest approval rating of any president in 50 years; only Richard M. Nixon and Jimmy Carter were viewed less favorably."

What I've been wondering recently is exactly where his numbers would've been in the summer of 2004 if 9/11 hadn't happened. As far as I can see, it's not as though his administration or the neocons in general are doing anything radically different from when they first entered office. They're still pushing the same kind of stupid cold-war agenda that's going to lose us our place at the top of the international food chain, and they were just as willing then to ignore public opinion as they are today in the face of these numbers.

Oh, and it's worth noting that both of these polls were taken BEFORE the USA Today report about how the NSA wiretappedmillions of Americans who have no direct link to ANY terrorist organization.

I'm guessing his numbers will sink even lower before long. It's almost becoming a game, to see how far he can fall and how fast. Can Bush reach a zero percent approval rating? Damn, that'd be cool.

And this is what Ann Coulter would look like without hair:



Man-Coulter, they call it.

Ew. That actually made me lose my appetite.