Day: May 7, 2006

“Dear Leader has to be the worst president in history if he feels his best moment in office is this,” says Pam Spaulding about this item about President Bush from the German press:

U.S. President George W. Bush told a German newspaper his best moment in more than five years in office was catching a big perch in his own lake.

“You know, I’ve experienced many great moments and it’s hard to name the best,” Bush told weekly Bild am Sonntag when asked about his high point since becoming president in January 2001.

“I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound (3.402 kilos) perch in my lake,” he told the newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.

Maybe the stress is getting to President Bush because he has been popping off recently. Yesterday, I pointed out that if a normal president had casually mentioned that he believed World War III had started, alarms would have gone off in every world capitol. When President Bush makes this very assessment, it barely makes the news.

In today’s outburst, we hear the president chafing at a question about his accomplishments. And no wonder — a normal president would have at least one success to be proud of. His only achievement is the efficiency with which he has turned the nation’s resources over to the corporate oligarchy.

If George Bush believes the pinnacle of his life as president happened when he was fishing, Pam is right — he really is the Worst President Ever.

He should follow his bliss and resign. Without the chore of presidentin’, he’d have plenty of time for fishing — and, of course, working on his abs — after he is pardoned by President Cheney.

A reader writes:

Seriously, the worst article I ever read. Can it be more one-sided? You are terrible.

Thanks for stopping by, Jay.

From his lips:

“This administration may be over,” Lance Tarrance, a chief architect of the Republicans’ 1960s and ’70s Southern strategy, told a gathering of journalists and political wonks last week. “By and large, if you want to be tough about it, the relevancy of this administration on policy may be over.”

A new poll by RT Strategies, the firm headed by Tarrance and Democratic pollster Thomas Riehle, shows that 59 percent of Americans disapprove of Bush’s job performance, while 36 percent approve — a finding in line with other recent polls.

Tarrance said it would be extremely difficult for any president to bounce back this late in his administration and reassert influence on Capitol Hill when his approval rating barely exceeds his party’s base support and half of all adults surveyed said they “strongly disapprove” of his performance. An overwhelming 73 percent of independents disapprove of Bush’s performance, and two-thirds of those “strongly disapprove.”