You Can't Fool All Of The People All The Time

After Bush was re-elected for a second term, I said that he was going to be in for a struggle. The second term is more challenging for any President, but when you are as incompetent as GW you better be ready for an up-hill climb the entire way. Since shortly after his re-election, Bush's approval rating has been on the decline. The Gallup Organization reported Bush as having the lowest approval rating compared to any other President since WWII. All others who served a second term had approval ratings above 50% in the March following their re-election.

Bush's current rating is 45%. The next lowest was Reagan with 56% in March 1985. Only 38% expressed satisfaction with the "state of the country" while 59% are "dissatisfied." Gallup's survey showed that One in Three Americans feel the economy is Excellent or Good, while the rest consider it Fair or Poor. The Gallup Folks also pointed out that more challenges lie ahead for Bush, such as public doubts regarding Social Security and Iraq policies.

Approval Ratings for Presidents as recorded by Gallup
(March following re-election)

1949 - Truman 57%
1957 - Eisenhower 65%
1965 - Johnson 69%
1973 - Nixon 57%
1985 - Reagan 56%
1997 - Clinton 59%
2005 - Bush 45%

I'll close this post with some words by the late Hunter S. Thompson...

This is not the time to have a bogus rich kid in charge of the White House. Which is, after all, our house. That is our headquarters--it is where the heart of America lives. So if the president lies and acts giddy about other people's lives--if he wantonly and stupidly endorses mass murder as a logical plan to make sure that we are still Number One--he is a Jackass by definition--a loud and meaningless animal with no fundamental intelligence and no balls. To say that this goofy child president is looking more and more like Richard Nixon in the summer of 1974 would be a flagrant insult to Nixon. Is it even vaguely possible that some New Age Republican whore-beast of a false president could actually make Richard Nixon look like a liberal?