THERE IS ONE POLITICIAN WHO BUSH COULD WHIP IN AN ELECTION CONTEST-- SOMEONE WITH EVEN LOWER POLL RATINGS THAN HIS OWN. WANNA GUESS ?

Depending on which poll you're looking at, a leading edge poll or a lagging poll, Bush's approval rating is somewhere between 32 and 38%-- and sinking... rapidly... in all polls. More and more Americans are starting to come to grips with the fact that he is incompetent, ignorant, backward, dishonest, untrustworthy, and, not insignificantly, unlucky.

But there is one politician far far less popular than Bush-- ironically, "the level-headed, seasoned adult" we were led to believe would show Junior around, the experienced politician whose steady hand we were supposed to trust if Bush went on a binge again or was proven, as he clearly has been, not up to the job. Yes, CHENEY. 37% of the American people believe aliens have secretly contacted the U.S. government but only 19% of the American people approve of Dick Cheney.