Sorry Chris, me and you must have had the same thought.

Maybe after 5-1/2 years of passing everything in sight the "congress" (meaning its Republican masters) will fake six months of independence to try to fool the voters.

Glad to see him below 30% though.  Getting closer and closer to Nixon land.  And Democrats picked up about 50 House seats in 74.

Hopefully there will be more people who don't like the idea that 10s of millions of Americans are being spied on, Rove will be indicted and hookergate will heat up.

Can we hope for single digits? Would be nice if Bush had the lowest approval ever when we went into November elections.  

Hopefully Bush is not tanking too soon! Would he still be sub-30% in Oct?

Full article here. Disapproval is a clean 71%. Apparently there were no undecideds.

I await a second poll to corroborate these results.  

TWENTY NINE PERCENT of America still thinks Bush is doing a good job.

This is just utterly shocking. Bush was revealed to have been playing around with the CIA this week and his "Michael Brown" appointment of Porter Goss just tumbled away - and America still suffers so much from a vaccuum of leadership that nearly 1 out of every 4 people you meet will say Bush is doing great.

Good heavens, this is just awful.
I think the only safe place right now, is 20% or below. With a one in five, then at least you can mark that up to people who are..

activists and not really interested in objective debate.

I didn't think this would happen until next week.  Great thing to head into the weekend with.

Since Bush holds the record for the highest poll numbers for an occupant of the oval office, it would be a good time to remember the ancient Etruscan goddess Lady Vortunna corrupted by the Romans into Lady Fortunna  (from which we get the word fortune) and her spinning wheel.

The ancients believed in a theory that everyone starts clustered about the hub of the spinning wheel. Kings and great warriors climbed the spokes to the very top of the wheel and others reached spots in between the hub and the top. Then Lady Fortunna spins the wheel. Those at the highest spot rotate and fall to the lowest spot. Those closest to the hub  (the peasants) don't change much at all and are only a little disoriented.  Thus the ancient cliche: the higher you climb, the farther you fall.

This imagery can be found in Boethius, Dante,  Chaucer, and of course, Shakespeare.  Get ready to pop the champagne, Bush is going to break another record.

I believe W is laying the groundwork for the big comeback at the phone company.  We've become so used to everything he does being shady we're over reacting to the phone records scandal.

I hate to dispute the professor of constitutional law at Georgetown but.  It is not a crime to have phone records in ones possession no more than it's unlawful to own a gun.  The unlawful part comes with use and not possession.  Phone records are handled by many other than the ones who's records they are.  The post office has them all at one time or the other for example.  Businesses routinely scan their records looking for employees who use the company phone for private purposes and to identify individual employees flaking off talking on the phone to friends instead of working.  There is nothing unlawful with what either the post office or employers do with phone records.

The 1934 law concerning phone records is either unconstitutional or it isn't.  Only the supreme court can decide that in the extreme.  It is in conflict with the patriot act that is also either unconstitutional or not.  Again, only the supreme court in the final analysis has the authority to rule on that.  Does the patriot act allow the phone companies to hand over phone records to an agency of the federal government?  Does it allow the government to demand them?  Unconstitutional laws may be enforced with impunity until ruled so by the court(s).

So lookout!  The hoopla about phone records may be a trap.  The average American can understand that no one can look at hundreds of millions of phone calls.  It's a computer and not a person.  Then there is the first level filter, calls made outside the country with all others being discarded.  The average American can understand that and see that he/she is not being subjected to any violation of phone privacy.  Only calls made to or received from outside the country.  Then there is the second level filter, only calls made to/from known terrorist harboring countries.  By this time there is probable cause and those phone records can be certified usable by the judge.  We're attacking the process of determining probable cause.  It's not a crime to have phone records in ones possession.  It's how they are used.  So be careful.  We can expect they are being careful and they have the big security ghost on their side right now.

We don't want to get hit with "following the law all along" with neck stuck out.  John Q is kind of dumb but can turn on a dime.  Keep him pointed in the right direction by only attacking the lying, cheating and stealing that is in abundant supply.  Phone records analysis may well be a trap.

I almost died laughing when I saw this in the trackbacks to the WSJ article on the poll, from GooperBloggers:

Bush Has Better Approval Ratings Than Congress...

...According to the latest Harris poll. Still the media prefers to talk about Bush's low approval ratings... but then again, they wouldn't be the MSM otherwise.
Posted by Matt Margolis at 08:26 AM

And as everyone knows, reality has a well known liberal bias.  

The glass isn't three quarters empty now, its just one fourth full.

But then thats just backwash.

(kudos to you know who at the press corps dinner)

Perhaps we can promise Bush he won't face a firing squad.

It seems like a fair deal.  He keeps his rat bastard life, we get about the business of righting America two years early.