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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

It's over

In essence, that's what the general public thinks of the Presidency of George W. Bush:
A strong majority believes Bush is experiencing a long-term setback from which he’s unlikely to recover. "He’s losing his grip on governance," says Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted this survey with Republican Bill McInturff. "It’s now a sense that we’ve seen the best that he’s going to produce as president of the United States."

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What’s more, 58 percent believe Bush is facing a long-term setback from which he’s unlikely to improve. Twenty-six percent think he’s experiencing only a short-term setback, and 11 percent say he’s dealing with no setback at all.

Which begs the question: What's wrong with 11 percent of America?