Bush's poll numbers: the stain beneath your feet

There's a great Dilbert cartoon in which some sales guy asks Dilbert whether he can make a decision on a sale, and Dilbert responds, "Let me explain the org chart..." He starts drawing on the whiteboard, and several minutes later he's written down off the board, down the wall all the way to the floor. Finally he says, "Okay. You see that stain on the floor?"

The sales guy says, "That's you?"

"No," Dilbert says. "That's my boss. I'm right under the stain."

That's about where Bush's latest poll numbers are now. He's the stain on the floor -- and we're under the stain. (The picture accompanying that article makes the president, dressed in a light grey suit and shot from below, look like a cross between the president of a Central American country and a televangelist.)

Or didn't you hear yet about the Boston Globe story about the 750 obscure (yet not secret) "presidential signings" that Bush has signed, documents that (he says) allow him to ignore parts of laws he doesn't feel like obeying -- in essence, a line-item veto that allows him to order the Defense Dept. and anybody else in the Executive Branch to ignore laws he says don't apply to him as Commander in Chief.

See? Bush: stain. Us: under that.