Free Fallin’

Poll news:

April 8, 2005 WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush's standing with the public is slumping just three months into his final term, but Americans have an even lower regard for the job being done by Congress.

Bush's job approval is at 44 percent, with 54 percent disapproving. Only 37 percent have a favorable opinion of the work being done by the Republican-controlled Congress, according to an AP-Ipsos poll.

Bush's job approval was at 49 percent in January, while Congress was at 41 percent.

"This is a pretty sour spring," said Karlyn Bowman, a public opinion analyst at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute. "People are not very impressed by what Bush is doing or by what Congress is doing -- Democrats or Republicans."

The shrub's approval ratings can't fall far enough or fast enough to suit me, but that's a disinterested little quote from the American Enterprise Institute, isn't it? No agenda there. Here's a clear-thinking comment by a shrub voter:

"I don't know that the exit strategy in Iraq is completely thought out. And I don't know that all the Social Security options have been explored," said Scott Lindsey, a Republican who lives near Memphis, Tennessee. "But I think President Bush is doing a good job."

Makes sense to me.