Down his numbers go

According to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, the Decider's approval rate now stands at 29%. That is down six points since April. Egads! The rate of American emergence from deep sleep is accelerating (despite the media's 'round-the-clock coverage of Bible-toting Paris and those other blonde dimwits of Hollywood.)

But, to borrow from the language of Ronald Reagan, the sound of Looney Tunes still reverberates in the land. 70% of Republicans continue to venerate their patron saint. And, according to a report in the London Free Press, some of those people are putting more than pennies in the collection basket. Bush supporters at a recent fund raiser in Wichita, Kansas, were willing to pay $4,600 to be photographed with His Majesty.

I don't expect that many of those deep pocket cheerleaders pay any real attention to the fact that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died because of this senseless Bush-Cheney war. But one would think that they would set aside the society page long enough to note that 3,521 US troops have been killed (as of noon today), 3,382 of those since the First Flyboy declared "mission accomplished" way back on May 1, 2003.

Come on, you 29%. Wake up, so we can start withdrawing at once from the midst of this mad civil war.