'So tell me, does it hurt to suck this bad?'
-Headline of the day-
" Bush leaving office more unpopular than Nixon."
A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll finds that soon to be former President Bush is about as popular as a fart in an elevator. A small elevator. The poll finds that 76% dissaprove of the job Bush is doing -- an all time high for this poll.
"No other president's disapproval rating has gone higher than 70 percent. Bush has managed to do that three times so far this year," says CNN polling director Keating Holland. "That means that Bush is now more unpopular than Richard Nixon was when he resigned from office during Watergate with a 66 percent disapproval rating."
Meanwhile, a USA Today/Gallup poll shows that Barack Obama is more popular than... Well... Barack Obama. Having been elected last Tuesday with 52% of the vote, Obama now has a 68% approval rating. Prior to the election, Obama's rating was 62% -- the highest pre-election approval since 1992.
Looking at these numbers, you'd never know that the Democrats and ACORN stole the election. It's shocking! I mean, who would steal something they totally owned anyway? (CNN)
-Because it worked so well the last time-
Never let it be said that NYT columnist and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol ever learns a damned thing from failure. And, if you think the Bush administration killed neoconservatism dead, then you're wrong.
After having gotten us into the jawdroppingly stupid clusterfuck in Iraq and destroying the US's global reputation nearly completely, Kristol seems to have decided that the election of Barack Obama means that the world has never needed neocons more.
According to the report, "It looks like Bill Kristol may be making good on his threat to revive the Project for the New American Century. Since May, visitors to PNAC's website were informed that 'this account has been suspended,' but now the website is back up, though it does not seem to have been updated with any new material."
That's right, PNAC is back and, baby, they're stupider than ever! Because, remember, William Kristol is a man who is constitutionally incapable of recognizing a bad idea. It was Kristol who talked John McCain into recruiting Sarah Palin, after all. "Given that Kristol’s faction began to close ranks around Palin in the waning days of the campaign, and given how deeply leveraged Kristol’s reputation is in her future success, it will be interesting to see what role the revived PNAC plays in continuing political adventures of Governor Sarah Palin," the report tells us.
Holy shit, she really is the next Dick Cheney!
I swear, Bill Kristol may hold the record for stupidest intellectual on Earth. He has a talent for it -- what are the odds of someone being so consistently wrong? It seems to defy logic. Anyone who says that even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while has never heard of Billie. (Wonk Room)
-First paragraph of the day-
"No matter how long in country, no matter how solid the understanding of the general docility of bears, there comes a certain primal apprehension at the discovery of a grizzly back-tracking your trail in the early season snow."
From "Bears are docile creatures. That's why they terrify us" in the Anchorage Daily News. I think they might be misusing the word "primal." I think the word they're looking for is "realistic." The article tells us "the risk of being in an automobile accident is so much greater than the danger of being attacked by a bear that these two possibilities don't even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence."
Yeah, except car accidents don't track you down in the snow. (McClatchy)
