Shrub's approval rate just dipped below the 50% mark for the first time ever. It's going to take an event of 9/11 magnitude to pull his ass back up into popular territory.

Political pundit Eric Alterman, referring to the policy fuckups in the Bush administration....

"Really, these people are making my job so easy, it’s unfair. The only work is trying to keep up."

There's a lot of resentment brewing over the hardball tactics the GOP is employing to win elections in Florida, Texas, and California. Check out this great article in the San Fransisco Chronicle by Mark Sandalow-

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/02/CONSPIRACY.TMP

The Bush administration has done a lot of foolish and irresponsible things, but perhaps none as arrogant and hubristic as assuming that the situation in Iraq would be under control well before it became a liability in the '04 political campaign. We are now faced with the possibility that the crucial decisions the White House makes on Iraq will be made under extreme political pressure. I'm not optimistic...