A new new new new low

I'm getting a strong feeling of deja vu.

President George W. Bush's job approval rating has hit a new low, with 29 percent of the U.S. public saying he is doing an "excellent or pretty good job," down from 35 percent in April, according to a Harris Interactive poll in The Wall Street Journal Online.

The poll of 1,003 U.S. adults said 71 percent of Americans said Bush was doing an "only fair or poor job," up from 63 percent in April. It said the survey was conducted May 5-8 and had a 3 percent margin of error.

But in November, when election results don't reflect this reality, inexperienced exit poll workers, not electronic voting machines with no paper trails, will be blamed.

In the meantime, let's go to the presidential approval-rating scoreboard (drumroll, please):

Bush: 29 percent
Nixon: 27 percent (November 1973)

The scary thing is that Bush probably thinks bombing Iran would improve his numbers.