Jiggling the Handle

Bush's polls hit a real low in the Pew survey: 33%. Very nearly, but not quite, one third of Americans approve his performance. Almost all other current polls are bottoming out, under 40 percent, which means that lost of people who trusted the (see standard paragraph) no longer do so.

Polls are deadly critical; the future of American freedom depends less on the constitution than on the continued skepticism of the public. We can recover from a myriad of illegal and incomptent actions, but we cannot recover a democracy from the loss of skepticism. Fortunately, even traditional dictators are in serious political trouble with these kinds of numbers.

Speaking of dictators, the Communist Party of America, yes, they're still around, has an interesting analysis of the situation, hardly objective, but far from mad.

Want to see the CPUSA article? Click here if you trust that the information of viewing this site will be kept from the government and not used against you later. I found it -through Google.

Speaking of breaking of trust, John McCain has turned into a slobbering Bushie suck-up, and he certainly votes that way- a cynical, amibitious, far-right Senator after all. See the hilariously titled "Wealthy Frenchman," a repost blog for the super secret NYT columnists, for Krugman's take on McCain.