White House reaps what it sowed

Bush is losing middle America. The latest polling in Indiana reflects the nationwide dissatisfaction with the preznit's performance. The propaganda and comforting sound bites can no longer hide the reality on the ground.

Kay Melloy, a 64-year-old independent voter from Chandler, finds nothing to approve of in Bush's job performance. She's especially distressed by the amount of money Bush is spending overseas in Iraq, when there are so many needs in the United States.

She works in a bank, she said, and sees elderly people with very little to live on. "It goes through me like a knife," Melloy said.

The WaPo seeks to explain to the tanking numbers.

The problem for President Bush is a growing perception that he simply isn't competent. [...]

The predecessor whom Bush has begun to resemble isn't, as many liberal Democrats seem to believe, Richard Nixon. It's Jimmy Carter. Carter's political demise began when the American people, including many Democrats, started to perceive him as in over his head in the Oval Office. That's what may be happening now to Bush.

The Rovian strategy of "divide and conquer" that has worked so well for the White House in the last five years has finally riven the GOP itself in the face of an increasingly arrogant and disconnected administration that no longer bothers to pretend their loyalty is to anything other than the industrial/military corporate complex.

Guess they never figured the loyal "nutcases" and other useful fools that could be tricked into pushing for every inane policy decision they put forward, would someday wise up. At least not before they could divvy up their spoils and slink out of office -- leaving the next administration to clean up their mess.