Apparently, watching thousands of one's people drown, starve and dehydrate while the man responsible for assisting them squeezes a couple of extra days out of his vacation tends to make folks appropriately cranky. According to NBC's Tim Russert,
the network's latest poll has only 2% of blacks saying they approve of the job Bush is doing as president. Those are Ku Klux Klan-like levels. I bet Newt Gingrich had better numbers than that among blacks as Speaker of the House during the Clinton impeachment. I bet Jefferson Davis had better numbers as the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Apparently Condi Rice, Minister T.D. Jakes, Ken Blackwell, and a tiny handful of other sellouts are the only black folks left in America still willing to support this monkey.
Meanwhile, it seems that the perfect storm of the Iraq debacle, high gas prices, fatal incompetence, cascading corruption investigations, and the worst Supreme Court nomination in US history have given the Democrats their best shot to make significant gains in Congress for the first time in decades. The only question is: do they have what it takes (courage, a humanely-centered vision, self esteem, etc.) to capitalize?