An animal is most dangerous when it's cornered

And George W. Bush, the self-appointed God's Chosen Leader of Our Nation, the self-styled Messiah of All That's Virtuous, is cornered:

President Bush's job-approval ratings have dropped to their lowest level ever, a new poll revealed yesterday.
The Quinnipiac University poll found 53% of voters disapprove of the job Bush is doing, while just 41% approve.

This compares to a 50%-to-44% disapproval rating in a May 25 Quinnipiac poll. Bush's highest rating came in a Dec. 11, 2001, poll, when 83% approved of how he was doing his job.

If you figure that Bush's base -- the wingnuts who would approve of him even if he were caught on film sodomizing 25 infants, then cooking them in wine sauce and enjoying his meal with fava beans and a nice chianti -- constitutes about 25-28%, only 13% of the "squishy middle" still approve of his job as president. I would guess that many of those are probably so invested in the concept that the presidency is bigger than the man that they simply can't or won't fathom the botch job this guy has made not just of the U.S., but of the entire world.

By contrast, Bill Clinton had a 66% approval rating IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH of the release of his videotaped testimony before Ken Starr's grand jury, and only 32% believed he should be impeached. After the House voted to impeach, Clinton's approval rating jumped to 73%.

The fact is this: George W. Bush has only had favorable approval ratings when he's been able to make Americans afraid -- in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, and when Americans believed he was telling the truth about Iraq. Lost in the shuffle of all his macho posturing after 9/11 is the fact that his approval ratings were hovering at around 50% in August 2001, and his presidency was already foundering.

No wonder he chose to ignore the August 6, 2001 PDB that warned very clearly that SOME kind of attack on the U.S. was imminent.

So right now this incompetent ninny, who still thinks he was anointed by God, is getting ready to spend the month of August at his "ranch" in Crawford. I wonder what kind of warnings he's going to ignore this year. After all, it worked for him once, didn't it?