#43 Places 43rd In New Poll

Confirming what a lot of us have suspected for awhile now, our current President is offically not held in very high esteem by the vast majority of his constituents. A new national poll today found that 76% of respondents failed to approve of Dumbleyou’s on-the-job performance. That’s a really big number. That means out of every four people you meet on the street, slightly more than three of them think the former “Texecutioner” has done a pretty shit job of running the country.

For context, you have to understand that Richard Nixon had higher numbers when he quit to avoid impeachment.

After eight years in the suspended reality of the Bush administration, my world is upside down. Things don’t make sense because suddenly things are starting to make sense again. Somebody competent is being feted for his competence by the press and “real America” alike, and the obvious dolt who’s been Presidenting and misrepresenting us for the last eight years is finally getting his public comeuppance. I mean, his numbers have been shit for ages now, but they keep finding new depths to plumb.

Historic depths! And it’s a good thing, too, because the judgment of history is all Bush has left to redeem his sorry tenure. Obama’s already said he’s getting ready to rescind some of the more stoopider Bush “executive orders” as soon as he takes office (like re-funding stem cell research – yay!).

Actually, as I hack away at this post, Obama’s about to be received at the White House for the official post-election meet-&-greet – I can’t wait to see the pictures that emerge from that. When that photo of them comes out, shaking hands, both with shit-eating grins on their faces, Bush is gonna be grateful this latest poll was taken before the photo-op with the President-elect. Can’t you just imagine the serene, inscrutable Obama slapping skin with the grinning, winking monkey in the nice suit?

The reason it’s hard to imagine the two men together in the same room is because it’s hard to imagine them sharing the same time/space continuum. It’s like somebody in a space suit shaking hands with a union soldier in a Matthew Brady tintype. I remember feeling this way when W took the office from Clinton, but nowhere near this much.

Oh I so can’t wait for January 20th to come. These last two months are going to be an excruciating ordeal… not leastly for still-President Bush, who has sixty more days for people to compare him with his successor and find him even more wanting. At this rate of decline he could hit single-digit approval ratings before he’s ushered out the door.

There may yet be a couple of historical milestones left in the old boy, after all.