April 19, 2006
Poll Position
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Just a few notes from some of the polls that have precipitated the absolutely non-Earth-shattering resignation from the White House press secretary tposition by some lying, sweaty pantload... to be replaced by some other lying, sweaty pantload. I really want James Woods to make those marathon sessions of disinformation and prevarication fun again. He's kind of a war-on-terror-conservative, he was great in Salvador and Once Upon a Time in America, and I think we could get a few more F-bombs lobbed at mendacious reporters of all stripes. I mean, he played Roy Cohn, for God's sake!
As for the polls, the big one is the new Harris/NBC/WSJ poll, which demonstrates that our country don't believe in nothin' no more, and that we're all going to law school. The president is down to 35% (still under the 43% that regard the Bible as literal, word-for-word truth), and only 27% of Americans believe that the country is on the "right track" (still above the 23% of people who believe that global warming will either never happen or will start sometime in the distant future), which I'm told would bode ill for Congressional incumbents if they weren't so moneyed- and gerrymandered-up.
Strangely enough, I looked at the historical "right track/wrong track" numbers for the life of the Bush Administration, and found that there was only one snapshot where the optimists outnumbered the pessimists: December 2001 (65 to 32), when the Taliban was being wiped from existence. At every other juncture, from the pre-9/11 period (43-52) to the liberation of Baghdad (46-48) to the second inauguration (46-48), we haven't liked the direction of the country. It hasn't been above 40% for well over a year.
Next we go to the always valuable state-by-state breakdown of Presidential approval for some ongoing regional humor. Five-plus years in, and we're now down to the very core of desperate dead-ender states: Idaho, Nebraska, Utah, and Wyoming. Oklahoma is at the the edge of treason with a 48-48 tie. Fourteen states have a 30-point gap in disapproval over approval; the highest gap in approval over disapproval is 15 (Utah!).
Gee, I can't imagine why Karl Rove is being reassigned reassigning himself to work on those Congressional elections. Only about 1000 days left in the worst Administration in recent history. With the much-anticipated second wind of incompetence and corruption kicks in, we can finally kick William Henry Harrison to the curb. I know they've got it in them!
A graphic representation of McClellan.
Posted by: stash at April 19, 2006 03:33 PMwe can finally kick William Henry Harrison to the curb
where Bush will temporarily cease raving at invisible enemies for a minute, leave his shopping cart and steal Harrison's bag o' wine.
Posted by: Kevin Hayden at April 20, 2006 08:37 AMNorbizness, are you a Sergio Leone fan? When you talk about Once Upon a Time in America, did you mean the chopped-all-to-hell-doesn't-make-shitsense U.S. release or the 4 hour original cut? I just did a review of the one Leone film you can't get in the U.S., A Fistful of Dynamite (Giu La Testa) at my blog. I had to order it from the U.K. Have a look. My film commentary is usually Blaxploitation flix or Spaghetti westerns.