War on terror, Iraq, Presidential honesty & Karl Rove

i am deliberately avoiding the moment-to-moment, breathless, seemingly endless posting on developments in the karl rove telenovela... i've been perfectly clear that i believe the man is a dark force who has no business occupying any position of public trust at any level anywhere... but i am also extremely leery* (dontcha just love that word...?) of either breaking out the celebratory fireworks prematurely or jumping up and down in glee as someone goes down... (ok, i'll confess to some gleeful cackling from time to time...) however, i do think it's worth sharing this...

[T]he latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that Bush’s overall job rating has slipped and that his rating for being “honest and straightforward” has dropped to its lowest point.

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[O]nly 41 percent give Bush good marks for being “honest and straightforward” — his lowest ranking on this question since he became president. That’s a drop of nine percentage points since January, when a majority (50 percent to 36 percent) indicated that he was honest and straightforward. This finding comes at a time when the Bush administration is battling the perception that its rhetoric doesn’t match the realities in Iraq, and also allegations that chief political adviser Karl Rove leaked sensitive information about a CIA agent to a reporter. (The survey, however, was taken just before these allegations about Rove exploded into the current controversy.)

“It’s a bad period for the president,” said Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted the survey with Republican Bill McInturff. Hart attributes Bush’s problems to “one part the economy, two parts Iraq, and one part everything else.” In fact, he is somewhat surprised that Bush’s ratings didn’t increase slightly after the London attacks. “I am sort of surprised we don’t see more a skew toward rallying around anti-terrorism.”

the good news is that bushco is increasingly being seen for exactly what it is - a bunch of lying, corrupt, self-serving, fear-mongers... the bad news is that, so far at least, nothing of substance has changed...

*leery
Pronunciation: 'lir-E
Function: adjective
: SUSPICIOUS, WARY -- often used with of

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