OK, this is getting scary!

Mr. Bush down in the Nixon range, pollwise!

Is he drinking and talking to dead presidents yet? Making Kissinger pray with him?

I have this really sick feeling that he has no intention of listening to anyone, but the voice in his head, maybe.

25th Amendment, anyone? I've been clicking between MSNBC and CNN, in order to miss commercials, which are against my religion and, at least, three pundits did all but call Bush batshit crazy, and the "hosts with the most" just went on like they hadn't said anything that was stunningly jaw-dropping.

No, these people were not qualified to commit anyone, nor even make a clinical diagnosis, but their lay-language certainly would indicate to most mental healh professionals that the president is, well...how shall we say this? Crazy!

I am not talking about policy here, though God knows his policies are either non-existant or insane, this is about the stunningly non-plused Mr. Bush, after supposedly reading all 96 pages if the ISG Report, which pretty much took him to a very public woodshed. Does he simply not get it?

Let's remember what psychosis means, for a moment. Put simply, it means that a person does not share a reality with the vast majority of his fellows, his culture, his community, nation, whatever. People get upset when a person does not share their collective reality.

Most of the time, we deal with such unfortunates by medicating them, or simply ingnoring. The police deal with them by jailing them.

But now, the individual or individuals, whose realties do not jive with the collective reality is the president and the vice president of this nation.

Again I say: "This is scary as hell!"


Zogby International:

The President’s positive job rating is down from 36% in late October, in the weeks heading into the congressional midterm elections. Since then, the Democrats swept to control of both houses of Congress, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned and was replaced by Robert Gates, who said the U.S. is not winning the war in Iraq. Release of the Iraq Study Group’s report calling for significant change in the way the U.S. is conducting the Iraq war came as this latest Zogby poll was in the field.
Sixty–eight percent said they believe Bush is doing only a fair or poor job leading the nation.

Support for the President waned in key demographic groups, the Zogby poll shows. Among all Republicans, just 60% gave him a positive job rating, while 39% gave him negative marks. Just 9% of Democrats and 22% of political independents gave him good marks for his work. Among married respondents – typically a group who favors Republicans – just 35% said Bush was doing a positive job. Among men, another favorable GOP demographic, just 31% gave him positive marks, while 69% gave him a negative rating. Even among stalwart Born Again respondents, just 43% had positive ratings for the President on his overall job performance.

The survey of 982 likely voters nationwide was conducted Dec. 5–8, 2006, and carries a margin of error of +/– 3.2 percentage points."