Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Deconstructing GW

Do you remember those “Saturday Night Live” sketches during the weeks after the 2000 election when the result was still in doubt? One of them showed GW in the White House, looking shell shocked, hiding under his desk as part of his office was on fire, because he’d screwed up so badly.

It may be a little like that in the White House now (or it would be, if he were there.) The American Research Group survey shows his approval rating is at 36%, a point lower than Nixon’s after the Watergate hearings and impeachment hearings, and just before he resigned.

Iraq, a tragedy wrapped in a debacle inside denial-dipped arrogance, is a big part of the reason. For Bush v. the Mayor of Salt Lake City, and deconstructed by an Iraqi woman blogger, read on.

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