Disapproval

No, the President's approval ratings have not yet increased. And more from Eric Alterman:

This just in: The new ABC News/Washington Post poll, here, shows 52 percent of Americans disapprove of the job President Bush is doing overall, reports ABC News' Polling director Gary Langer — the most in more than 75 ABC/Post polls since his presidency began. His approval rating is 48 percent.

Bush's Iraq approval ratings haven't fared much better: 41 percent said they approve of the job the President is doing in Iraq, while 58 percent disapprove — matching his career-high Iraq disapproval mark.

George W. Bush’s approval rating is now a full twenty points lower than Bill Clinton’s was on the day he was impeached. Dear media, that means you gotta stop referring to him as a “popular president,” and no less important, stop treating him like one. If you want to be wimps about everything, fine, just don’t blame it on his ‘popularity.’ Blame it on yourselves.

Amen.

And, why could this be? Is there, finally, a corrosive combination of too many lies and manipulations to put is into a shitty war situation where asinine violence occurs at great cost, in both money and humanity? Or is it the cold shoudler given to his non-stop whistlestop tour promoting a social security plan nobody wants to touch?