According to this survey, 33% of Americans approve of dubya's performance as preznit. That number has been holding pretty steady. I think I'm going to have to accept that a solid third of my fellow citizens are essentially delusional. That 33% approval rating is probably about rock-bottom for dubya unless he suddenly comes out in favor of gay marriage or maybe gets himself a hummer from an intern. All he's got left are the believers-with-a-capital-B and their minds are tightly closed to any and all forms of doubt. This is the 9/11 changed everything crowd. They believe all manner of strange and bizarre things. Like: George Bush was chosen by gawd to lead us in these times of peril; We're in a battle of good versus evil and Muslims are our enemy; WMDs were found in Iraq; People from other countries are somehow less than fully human, and therefore insignificant; George Bush is a man of great wisdom.

That's just a partial list, but you get the idea. My point is that I believe dubya's base of approval now largely consists of those citizens who are ... let's saaaay ... comfortable ... believing some things despite a lack of any supporting evidence. They are in fact, fully capable of continuing to believe those things after they have been thoroughly disproven.

According to the same survey, 62% of Americans disapprove of our preznit. That's a lot of disapproval, innit? I don't have any conversion tables handy, but I'd say that's bordering on whopping disapproval. It gives me hope for a bright and shiny future for America to know that over half the population appears to be paying attention.

But what about that 5% of Americans who are undecided about this administration? Just who and where are these people? We're over 6 years into the presidency of tax cuts for the rich and the eternal War on Extreme Fear for everyone else. We've turned the largest budget surplus in history into the largest budget deficit in history. We've bombed and bluffed and bullied away our international reputation. We broke a whole damn country and we don't have a clue how to fix it. And still 5% of Americans are up in the air on whether they think dubya is a good preznit? This is me, sitting here baffled.