President Dubya's approval rating is down to 29%, and dropping at a rate of about 5% a month. Reminds me of the scene in Speed, where the one cop asks what will prevent the elevator from falling if the emergency brake gets blown, and the other cop replies "The basement." It's like a nasty divorce, with the American people realizing that their trust in him after 9/11 was completely misplaced, and now they are very, very bitter.
To put 29% in perspective, the only two presidents since polling began to have lower ratings were Nixon (just before he resigned) and Carter (just before he got fired). Dubya, on the other hand, is probably going to limp along for nearly three more years. If this duck were any lamer we'd have to call it an amputee.
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