BUSH GOING DOWN

IN THE OZ LIKE WHITE HOUSE  LAND OF WIND AND BLUSTER, the flood has followed the tornado to swamp W with news someone may have the guts soon to tell him.  This Duke of Deception and Misdirection is going down.  Down in the polls [Rasmussen].  Down. [cnn]  Down. [USA Today]

"Bush stands at a precipice," says Carroll Doherty of the non-partisan Pew Research Center. "He's lost ground among independents. He seems to be starting to lose ground among his own party. And he lost the Democrats a long time ago."[USA Today]

Doherty is wrong.  Bush isn’t at a precipice looking over the depths. The White House continues its jolly jaunt into the drink.

By a record 66%-31%, independents disapprove of the job Bush is doing as president.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan says the president "knows a leader must govern based on what he believes is right, not based on polls." Bush is "working to address the priorities that Americans are most concerned about," he says.

Unfortunately for Bush, people no longer believe he knows what is right.  W is already in the abyss looking up at the  maelstrom, swirling above him, unlikely to ever resurface.

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PRESIDENT AT PRECIPICE [Echidne of the Snakes] Say that very fast a few times. Then apologize to anyone who happened to be within your saliva range. The title comes from one description of yet another bad poll for George Bush.
The USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll suggests that George is not the likeable president the so-called liberal media likes to tell us. In fact, his disapproval rating is at a new high of 58%, and he is doing poorly even in the category of boldness: for the first time the majority doesn't find him that strong or decisive as a leader.

THE HERETIK NOTES even JOHN KERRY has finally said something:

If the president won’t stand up and provide Americans with answers, then we must be willing to stand up and propose our own solution.

THE HERETIK ONLY HOPES the Democrats offer more than the "a better plan," Republican light that nobody swallowed last November. Still there is hope.

OLIVER WILLIS POINTS OUT sinking Republican desperation:

How do you know these guys are bleeding? The RNC had to issue a press release to slam Kerry.

THE HERETIK AGREES the Republicans are down, but now are we going to build New Orleans back up?  It is not a cliche to say it will take um vision.  Shades of Bush pere and the vision thing.

VISIONS OF NEW ORLEANS [EJ DIONNE] If the rebuilding of New Orleans is to be something other than a new government disaster, a coalition of the skeptical and the visionary will have to stand together and confront the lobbyists and the corporate welfare artists.

MORE TO FOLLOW

Comments

[Agi T. Prop]

Ooh. John Kerry emerged from his shell?

If the president won't stand up and provide Americans with answers, then we must be willing to stand up and propose our own solution

Duh. That's what an opposition party is supposed to do. If only the Dems had done that last year, when it actually mattered. Indeed they must go beyond offering another "plan". Let's hope someone steps up to the plate.

[Matt]

The sad thing is that, by and large, Democrats have not stepped into the leadership void. If there was ever a time to articulate a new and positive vision for America, this is it.

I can't think of a better time to break the idee fixe that no one should ever raise taxes.

[Chuck]

Great compilation & great picture Joe.
Very nicely done!

[ForeignTart]

King George is the Sun King, reincarnated. I'm pretty sure of it. Don't be fooled by all that Freedom Fries business. I know a royal despot when I see one.

[Red State Blues]

Bush has been going down ever since they gave Jeff Gannon press credentials.

The real question is: can this level of anger be sustained? Americans are notorious for their ADD.