So you know the problem with the President hitting 29% approval is that there's no way to get back from that. Right now he's still at around 37% and even though months ago, that would have made me happy, that's now nothing but disappointing. Of course, the reality is he should be around -5% but I don't think that's stastically impossible.

It's especially problematic in that the new storyline is the whole "Bush is having a good week" thing, as if all the things that are going on in the world are all only about Bush's popularity. I'm sure the people in New Orleans and Baghdad are thrilled the President is having a good week. And you still here it despite the fact he's gone from like 36% to 37%.

I think basically that this whole Bush era is like one big, long nightmare, the kind of nightmare where you see things happen and feel completely powerless to stop it. That's where we are, the country is broken and there's nothing anyone can do about it.