CBS: Bush's Approval Rating Remains at Record Low

From CBS:

President George W. Bush's job approval rating is now just 42 percent, and most Americans think he does not share their priorities.

Iraq and the economy -- not the President's signature issue of Social Security -- are most important to Americans, and Americans' assessments of both remain mixed, with support for the decision to send troops to Iraq matching its lowest percent ever.

Regarding Social Security, months of campaigning have not brought public acceptance of the personal accounts the President desires, nor resulted in increased confidence in his ability to make the right decisions about that program. In fact, many Americans claim they like Bush's plan less the more they hear about it.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
President Bush's job approval rating has dropped this month to just 42 percent, while 51 percent disapprove. His current approval rating is near the low reached in May 2004, after news and photos from the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal were made public.

And yet, did you catch Mr. Bush this week talking to the GOP?

He says we don't "get" it and he's about to go out on yet another Bamboozlepalooza Tour we pay for, where only the most loyal GOPers are allowed to attend, in which he tells us yet again what we're supposed to believe. That it will have no relationship whatsoever to the truth does not matter, at least to Mr. Bush and his supporters.

Basically, Mr. Bush says that even though we're right to be very concerned, the problem ISN'T with how he's handling things, but with our perception of how he's handling things. And trust me, he's working behind the scenes to make things even tougher on us so we don't have the time to notice what a horror he is and the terrible, terrible future he's handing to us.