The SotU, the night the President squares off against his bitterest rival...words.

So how long before he creeps into the low 20's? A month? Two?

President George W. Bush’s approval ratings are now the lowest for any president the day before a State of the Union speech since Richard Nixon in 1974, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Sixty-five percent of those surveyed said they disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as president while 33 percent approve. The rating matches Bush’s career low in a May 2006 poll.

Seventy-one percent of Americans said the country is on the wrong track, up from 46 percent in an April 2003 poll, the month after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. A majority of those polled this month don’t approve of how Bush is handling the Iraq war, terrorism or the economy.

But it gets better!

President Bush will deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night to a nation that’s strongly opposed to his plan for increasing troops in Iraq and deeply unhappy with his performance as president, according to a CBS News poll.

Mr. Bush’s overall approval rating has fallen to just 28 percent, a new low, while more than twice as many (64 percent) disapprove of the way he’s handling his job.

via Sadly, No!

While Steve at No More Mister Nice Blog reminds us:

Bush is going to end up the most unpopular president in history. Remember, I said that here first.

--Gore Vidal in the April 18, 2002, San Francisco Chronicle, when Bush was at 76% in the CBS poll

Dinesh D’Souza is to reasonable discourse as seeping genital string warts are to physical comfort.

D. Aristophanes takes on Dinesh D’Souza in the aptly named blogpost, "Symphony in Retarded Minor", and makes one of the most brilliant references to the Wonder Twins ever:

Weird. The lefties and bin Laden have so much reason to despise each other, and yet they are best chums when it comes to trying to undermine Bush, according to D’Souza. So if the American left and bin Laden were the Wonder Twins, they’d be all, “Form of … a gay-married couple in bondage gear!” … “Shape of … a nice-sized rock to stone the gay-married couple to death with!”

D'Souza really is the gift that keeps on giving. Example, D'Souza says:

So Bush faces two kinds of enemies: the radical Muslims abroad and the Pelosi left at home. The two groups, whose values are sharply opposed and who never speak a word to each other, are nevertheless working in a kind of scissors motion, each prong operating separately, but toward the same end. Bush may discover that his enemy at home is no less dangerous than the enemy abroad. The war on terror might be lost not on the streets of Baghdad but in the corridors of Congress.

To which D.A. can only reply:

In the 1,403 days since the Iraq War started, Bush and the Republicans have controlled both the White House and Congress for 1,386 of them. Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have now controlled Congress - but not the White House - for precisely 17 days (12, if you count actual business hours).

Yet in a stunning offensive, D’Souza would have us believe, the “Pelosi left” and its al Qaeda allies already have the war on terror trapped in a friggin’ pincer movement. Why, in just those famous first ‘Hundred Hours’ alone, Iraq went from peaceful, democratic land of collegial debate over theological nuances to murderous and chaotic hellhole!

Folks, this is your 2007 Hoover Institution Rishwain Fellow. Wingnut welfare, indeed.

Though this comment sums the whole thing up beautifully:

Snag said,

January 23, 2007 at 7:25

Dinesh D’Souza is to _____ as _____ is to _____.

I’d go with:

Dinesh D’Souza is to intellectual rigor as rectal bleeding is to colonic health.