Another new low

It's getting hard to keep up with these -- every poll about how George Bush is doing his job is reading a new low.

Political reversals at home and continued bad news from Iraq have dragged President Bush's standing with the public to a new low, at the same time that Republican fortunes on Capitol Hill also are deteriorating, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The survey found that 38 percent of the public approve of the job Bush is doing, down three percentage points in the past month and his worst showing in Post-ABC polling since he became president. Sixty percent disapprove of his performance.

With less than seven months remaining before the midterm elections, Bush's political troubles already appear to be casting a long shadow over them. Barely a third of registered voters, 35 percent, approve of the way the Republican-held Congress is doing its job -- the lowest level of support in nine years.

I guess this means it's going to be a little harder in November to explain the unlikely election results, when Republicans are overwhelmingly swept back into power.

Of course, by then explanations won't matter, because it'll be all-out war on the poor and the environment. Oh yeah, and on Iran.