The Poll Remains The Same

Another day and another poll with President Bush's numbers lower than Rush Limbaugh's IQ. Here's the low points – for the Bush administration and the country – of a Newsweek magazine poll conducted August 2-4:

• 42 percent of Americans approve, in general, of the way Bush is doing his job as president, while 51 percent say they disapprove.

• 54 percent say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States at this time.

• 61 percent of Americans polled say they disapprove of the way President Bush is handling the war in Iraq.

• 50 percent of those polled say the United States is losing ground in its efforts to establish security and democracy in Iraq.

• 64 percent of Americans say the war in Iraq has not made Americans safer from terrorism.

Man, I know if my house were on fire, I wouldn't go on vacation.