Wow

It's amazing how fast BushCo's ratings have been falling since the election last November. Here are the numbers from today's release of polling numbers from American Research Group--where approval ratings are now in the 30s:

George W. Bush's overall job approval ratings have dropped from a month ago even as Americans who approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president are turning more optimistic about their personal financial situations according to the latest survey from the American Research Group. Among all Americans, 36% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 58% disapprove. When it comes to Bush's handling of the economy, 33% approve and 62% disapprove. Among Americans registered to vote, 38% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 56% disapprove, and 36% approve of the way Bush is handling the economy and 60% disapprove. This is the second month in a row when improving economic ratings have not been matched by higher job approval ratings for Bush. A total of 24% of Americans now say their personal financial situations are getting better, up from 17% in July, and 27% say they believe that their personal financial situations will be better off a year from now, which is up from 21% in July. [...] Among Republicans (35% of adults registered to vote in the survey), 77% approve of the way Bush is handling his job and 18% disapprove. Among Democrats (37% of adults registered to vote in the survey), 15% approve and 81% disapprove of the way Bush is handling his job. Among Independents (28% of adults registered to vote in the survey), 21% approve and 72% disapprove of the way Bush is handling his job as president.

How will BushCo handle this dumpster diving? Take a look at the calendar and check out these musings from Salon's War Room:

The president takes a break from his Crawford vacation today to sell his war in a speech before a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Salt Lake City. If you want a sense of what the president will be saying, look no further than the first sentence of his latest weekly radio address. Well, not the first sentence. That's the one where he said, "Good morning." But in the very next sentence, the president got right to the point: "In a few weeks, our country will mark the four-year anniversary of the attacks of September the 11th, 2001." Today's speech in Utah is the first of several "stay the course" presentations he'll make before friendly audiences in coming days; on Wednesday, the president will plead his case to a National Guard group in Idaho. The essence of his argument will be familiar: The United States was attacked on 9/11, we're fighting "the enemy" in Iraq so that we don't have to fight them back home, and did I mention yet that the United States was attacked on 9/11? For more and more Americans, it simply isn't enough. A majority of Americans think it was a mistake to go to war in Iraq, that the war hasn't been worth the cost, and that the war is going badly now. While 28 percent of the public believes that the U.S. should maintain current troop levels in Iraq, 23 percent say the U.S. should withdraw some of its troops and 33 percent say all U.S. troops should come home now.