Mr. Bush, you are no Ronald Reagan (aka Ouch)

I've diaried a few times about the way things are looking way up the Democrats, and now I find this AP article about how Bush didn't actually end up with a "Reagan Bounce"!

The reporter notes that Bush's polling improved immediately after the funeral, but then adds that "Some polling analysts attributed those changes to Americans getting a break from steady media coverage of bad news from Iraq." I almost couldn't believe it--this from the folks who cut Nedra Pickler's paycheck!

Ron Reagan (I like him more every day) nailed it when he said that his father didn't have to compare himself to anyone: No way this comparison was going to help Shrub. How sweet that W appears to get a bounce only because a state funeral pushed his incompetence off the front page!

Best of all this shows that the media is (at long last) not reporting everything through the Bush-as-infallible-national-hero lens. Now if we could just do something about the Reagan deification/whitewash. . .