Released Of Their Supports, His Polls Dropped Like Hanged Men

The decay of the Bush presidency is beginning to get pretty ripe. Today it was reported his approval ratings have dropped to 49 percent.

Why should people hate George Bush, after he completely ignored actually making this country secure in favor of dragging us into a war in Iraq already planned even as he was campaigning in 2000? Why should they hate a president who doesn't hesitate to alienate every ally, squander all his political capital, or give a tax cut or defense contract to his friends, while trusting in, seemingly, magic to make the conditions to create at least one damn job? Why should they hate him when his cronies attempt to take advantage of this desperate situation to attempt to kill overtime rules(though they did fail)? Why should we hate him for stealing the election and then using the presidency to do things with this country and its resources--which include our army, whose lives he squanders every day for the sake of Haliburton's stock price--that none of us want him to do?

Or is it possible that the administration's condescending parent approach to governance is the wrong approach, and that the American people are merely patient, not stupid?

I ask this every now and then: Had enough?

Labels: politics

  ¶ September 24, 2003