Bad company

People tend to forget how rocky the Bush administration's tenure was, and how its approval ratings were in steady decline up through September 10, 2001. Truth is, from tax cuts for the wealthy, to their handling of the economy, to privatizing social security, to ignoring the flood waters of New Orleans, the Bush administration's political instincts have been consistently terrible -- this, despite the fact that Karl "Boy Genius" was their chief strategist.

And now they believe that Americans -- looking at $5/gallon sometime this summer -- are eager to see oil rigs off the coast of Cape Hatteras and ANWAR. I think they're wrong again.