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I stop in at Eschaton every morning to see what's what in the world. It's a handy jumpin-off point to lots of fun stuff. Or rage-inducing stuff, I'm trying to keep myself from exploding in rage once in a while.
I hadn't visited Oliver Willis' site in a while, and it's worth stopping in. If only for one of the best taglines ever put under a blog headline.
A poll yesterday had Bush's approval ratings in the 20's. That's pretty much where it should be. I've been saying for a long time the Bush clan has a natural constituency of the super-rich and those who live off the super-rich of a little less than 10% of the country, so his approval ratings should reflect that, don't you think?
Let's see...what has Bush done to help the poor? Nothing. He's slashed every social program he could get near. He's feeding their fear while trying to push through sweetheart deals for his terrorist-supporting Arab state-owned companies. He's aggressively pursuing every safeguard that the lower class has for equitable treatment under government: "tort reform", "health savings accounts", regressive taxation, and on and on.

so why is a 29% approval rating surprising? It should be lower.