The good old days

With Bush's approval ratings hovering around a hardly-sizzling 38%, Hoffmania takes us back to those halcyon days when a charismatic president getting a blowjob was giving everyone the vapors.

Well, not everyone:

In the wake of the House of Representatives' approval of two articles of impeachment, Bill Clinton's approval rating has jumped 10 points to 73 percent, the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll shows.

That's not only an all-time high for Clinton, it also beats the highest approval rating President Ronald Reagan ever had.

At the same time, the number of Americans with an unfavorable view of the Republican Party has jumped 10 points; less than a third of the country now has a favorable view of the GOP.

Despite concerns that public calls for Clinton's resignation would rise after his impeachment, the number of Americans who want Clinton to resign has remained statistically unchanged. Only 30 percent want Clinton to resign; only 29 percent want the Senate to convict Clinton and remove him from office.

The poll, released Sunday, also shows that 35 percent approve of the House's decision to impeach the president.

Hmmmmm.....that 35 percent must be the same people who support President Bush, with another 3% of the clueless thrown in for good measure.

Guess that lying about a blowjob wasn't that important after all, now was it.