ANOTHER poll has Bush in the mid-30s (Pew, 36% approval).

[Brotherjohn]

http://pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

Umm... is he still "popular"?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Too bad he scaled back bankruptcy protection

Because this mofo is all out of "political capital"! :D

[electropop]

2. He's gonna miss Chapter 11.

Of "My Pet Goat." It's a great chapter, but Bush will soon be busy clearing brush full-time, an no time for goat ropes. He may not do this brush clearing on his own property however. Instead of cowboy boots and hat, the attire will be an orange jumpsuit.

[Vanje]

3. Bush is very very popular, a hugely popular president

among about 35% of Americans

[Straight Shooter]

4. Still too high.

I'm waiting for his numbers to start rattling around in the mid-twenties, hopefully in time to boomerang on the Repubs in the Senate and swing the pendulum of power where it belongs right now, in the hands of capable Democrats.

[MindPilot]

5. How can there still be 36% who think he's doing a good job?

How was there ever that high a percentage who thought he *could* do a good job?

[redacted]

7. Agree! These are BULLSHIT INFLATED NUMBERS

They probably omitted sampling in LA and the other Gulf states, like other recent polls. Otherwise, the numbers don't make sense.

[Lexingtonian]

8. uh, they don't

They do imagine that the likes of Clinton, Gore, or Kerry running the country would utterly unbearable in some fashion.

Don't even try to fathom the lethally reeking cesspool of shit that this 'thinking' emanates from. Just be happy that these past five years have been a running draining of that mental crap- horrible in what people have spewed, pathological and hateful, a raging and screaming form of 'therapy'. This crap was accumulated initially as misunderstandings, traumas, fears, resentments, envy, faux beliefs about The Way The World Really Is, and entitlements, and magical thinking. It's the mental residues of a much sicker, more brutal, poorer, meaner, deeply and widely traumatized, more dogmatic and more occultic and more hierarchical country. They hate us for our freedom from the mental chains they've been unable to break themselves. In some oblique ways they have been right- many things of the past were wrongly resolved in bad compromises, papered over with pieties, and the wrong people were screwed for the sins of others. But they have always wanted even more stupid and wrong and selfish solutions imposed; that evil ever outweighs the virtue to their desire to readdress inadequate decisions of the past.

If you look over the past 5 years, the best mathematical model for what has taken place is that about 1% of the population has finished the job of clearing the crap- politically, latent or active conservatisms- out of their heads per month. The most perceptive and wise probably got done first, the average got done in the middle, and now we're on the whole at pretty blind or pretty stupid or pretty nastily traumatized sorts of people emerging. At roughly 60 months in, about 60% of voters are done with the crap. Need I point out that it's 99 months between November 2000 and January 2009, and across 8 years about 10% of the initial electorate dies.... Plus that Parties in a two party system implode when they split and drop under low thirties percentages in adherents.

[second edition]

6. yeah, and the repubs are painting this as just a little slump,

that wil soon pass.

[otohara]

9. PU

he stinks Mr. Russert