Yellow Dog

Fat Cat Cheney took a break from his busy schedule of covering up CIA leaks from his office, securing no-bid government contracts for Halliburton, and lobbying for torture to do his duty as administration attack dog. He called the Democrats' process of finally growing a spine and calling the administration on their lies in the lead-up to war "dishonest and reprehensible," two traits that he happens to have first-hand experience with (remember all his lies about WMD, nuclear weapons, ties between Iraq and al qaeda that didn't exist, claims that we would be greeted as liberators, claims that the war is in its "last throes," etc., etc.?).

Democratic Congressman John Murtha, a defense hawk, decorated Vietnam War veteran and retired Marine colonel, angrily shot back at Cheney: "I like guys who've never been there that criticize us who've been there. I like that. I like guys who got five deferments and never been there and send people to war, and then don't like to hear suggestions about what needs to be done."

Yellow Dogs: 1. Attack Dogs: 0.

Hawkish Democrat Calls for Iraq Pullout - Yahoo! News

There's a definite "fall" in Bush's job approval ratings. Check out some of these numbers:

CNN/USA Today/Gallup: 37%
Newsweek: 36%
FOX: 36%
AP-Ipsos: 37%
NBC/Wall Street Journal: 38%
Pew: 36%
ABC/Washington Post: 39%
CBS: 35%
Bush: Job Ratings

Could these falling numbers have anything to do with Bush's pride, arrogance, and inability to hold himself accountable?

Today, before leaving for his trip to Asia, Bush smirkingly accused Democrats (who are _finally_ doing their job and asking questions) of sending the troops and the enemy in Iraq the "wrong message," which he called "irresponsible." Excuse me? More irresponsible than sending troop's into harm's way based on trumped-up evidence and lies?

Dubya's hubris knows no bounds. I wonder if his poll numbers know any bounds. How low can they go? As low as the Bush administration's manufactured war?