When Numbers Don't Count

The most recent Gallup poll shows that der Bush now receives the highest "strongly disapprove" rating of any President since Richard Nixon in his Final Days. The Big Smirk joins The Big Scowl as the only presidents to score above 40% in this category.

Twice the percentage of Americans strongly disapprove (44%) of Bush than strongly approve (20%). Though contempt for Bush among Democrats is relatively unchanged, it is dramatically higher among independents--a majority now strongly disapproves. For the first time, less than half of Republicans strongly approve.

Nevertheless, there appears to be no lessening of the Bushite assault on everything from our food to our public lands, from our civil liberties to privacy, from one poisoned and increasingly lifeless sea to the other shining with oil slick sea . Well on their way to absolute power, already corrupted absolutely.