It seems that President Inconsequential, as he prepares to pull a snow job address the public tonight about yet another massive disaster that's occurred on his watch, will do so with a 19% approval rating.
American Research Group (ARG) reports that the Worst. President. Ever. has matched a previous low in approval numbers. The last time he was at 19% was in Feb 08.
ARG Poll
Nineteen percent. Genital herpes polls better than that. Actually, genital herpes has probably caused less long term damage to the country as a whole than has the Bush Administration.
It's interesting to puzzle through the thought process of putting him in front of the American public on the teevee. Clearly it's an attempt to go directly to the taxpayers in order to sell the bailout without the filter of so-called biased media or the surprising stone wall that is Congress the last two days.
And the "salesman" is less popular than, well, used car salesmen, or telemarketers. Yeah, this will work.
Desperation, thy name is George W. Bush. It's as if he's seeing all the failures that were his pre-governor days flash before his eyes. His limited responses thus far are akin to a deer in the headlights. Even by his standards, he's stumbling and one gets the sense he's in way over his head and is terrified. All of this going into a televised national address.
Nineteen percent. In many ways, so what? He's been a crappy president, arguably the worst. All this ARG poll tells us is that perhaps a small percentage of the usually bat-shit, head-trauma crazy wingnuts actually do have a limit to what they can stand. It also tells us that there will always be 20% of the citizenry who will always be unreachable.
He's done his damage. This poll just confirms that most of America knows that and wish he'd get the hell outta Dodge.
Update: The basics of this poll have been diaried already:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
I posted this to put it in the context of tonight's address to the nation. And I wanted to use the term "anal warts".