New Lows ( or is it lowlifes)

New Poll: Bush And Congress Both At Astonishing LowsA new NBC/Wall St. Journal poll released this evening has President Bush at a horrible 29%-66% approval-disapproval rating. Congress, however, is even worse off at 23%-64%. In the presidential primaries, the national numbers are: For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton 39%, Barack Obama 25%, John Edwards 15% and nobody else above 10%; And for the Republicans, Rudy Giuliani 29%, Fred Thompson 20%, and Mitt Romney and John McCain tied at 14% apiece.
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Michael Moore went on GMA to promote his latest movie, SICKO, but the interview became pretty confrontational from almost the beginning.

On "Good Morning America" today, Moore told ABC’s Chris Cuomo that he was concerned that the health-care debate would go the way of the war debate, where he also thinks the media is to blame. He said that had journalists confronted the government about its decision to invade Iraq, they could have saved thousands of lives.
"My point is that had ABC News, NBC News, CBS News been more aggressive in confronting the government with what they were telling us back in 2003 about Iraq, you might have prevented this war. You, this network, the other networks," Moore said. "Those 3,500 soldiers that are dead today may not have had to die had our news media done its job. … My point is that the media didn’t ask the questions."
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More BS is it any wonder congress's approval is so low.

Senate Dems Plan New Round of Iraq Votes By Anne Flaherty The Associated Press
Washington - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday the Senate will face another round of votes on the Iraq war before the July Fourth recess, a strategy intended to show that Democrats are not giving up on efforts to bring troops home.
While the measures are unlikely to pass, the announcement comes as party leaders are under fire by many liberal supporters for passing legislation that funds the war through September.
"We're going to hold the president's feet to the fire," Reid, D-Nev., told reporters after emerging from a closed-door meeting with Senate Democrats.
Under Reid's plan, the Senate will cast separate votes on whether to cut off funding for combat next year, order troop withdrawals within four months, impose stricter standards on the length of combat tours and rescind congressional authorization for the Iraqi invasion.
The measures likely will be offered as amendments to the 2008 defense authorization bill, a measure that approves some $649 billion in military spending.
Reid and other congressional leaders, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, planned to meet with President Bush on Wednesday to discuss security issues in the Middle East. According to aides, the bipartisan meeting was expected to focus on Iran.
The legislative proposals will probably fall short of the 60 votes needed to pass controversial legislation under Senate rules. Many GOP members say they are willing to wait until September before they call for change, giving the president's new strategy of Iraq a chance to work.
The proposal to cut off money for U.S. combat is particularly far fetched. Many leading Democrats, including Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., oppose the drastic move because it would be seen as Democrats turning their backs on the troops.
Despite the proposals' dim prospects, the staged votes will refocus debate on Capitol Hill on an issue where voters have typically favored Democrats over Republicans. It also forces GOP members to put themselves on the record as either supporting a politically unpopular war or breaking with their president.
"I think the ground is going to continue to shift," said Levin. "I think that by September if not earlier, enough Republicans will be joining us to change course in Iraq. And if there's enough Republicans joining us, the administration will see that handwriting on the wall."
Last month, Democrats helped push through legislation funding the war for another four months, triggering a backlash from liberal voters who helped Democrats take control of Congress in the November elections. Reid and other party leaders said they didn't have a choice.

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Quote of the Day
By Eric Kleefeld bio
"The real Romney is clearly an extraordinarily ambitious man with no perceivable political principle whatsover. He is the most intellectually dishonest human being in the history of politics."
— Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), in an interview last night with New England Cable News.

Geeze guess Barney doesn't like him!
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Boltin Joe
Lieberman has become the Ann Coulter of the neocons, desperately seeking new headlines and talk show appearances by one-upping himself every opportunity he gets with ever more outrageous and ridiculous statements. Now that his "Iraq has turned the corner" schtick has played out, he's now relegated to screaming "bomb Iran!!!!" while bystanders chuckle nervously at the embarassing scene.
Yet for Katrina Swett, Lieberman is "better positioned politically for the future of the party that I love."
That must be the "Connecticut for Lieberman" party, though unfortunately for both Joe and Katrina, even that "party" has lost faith.
Connecticut for Lieberman Party Chairman John Orman called Tuesday for Sen. Joe Lieberman to resign, saying his advocacy of a military strike against Iran could explode into a global conflict. "He has crossed the line," said Orman, a professor of politics at Fairfield University. "His unilateral warmongering could lead to a new World War III."
Lucky for Joe, he'll always have Katrina Swett.
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COMMENTARY
The dying continues in Iraq while at home we bury our heads in the sand
By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY
McClatchy Newspapers
The war in Iraq grinds on without much regard for an American president's pipedreams of victory, a congressional majority's impotent attempts to stop it and most of the American people's wish that it would just go away.
We're now well into the fifth year of this war. All 30,000 of President Bush's surge reinforcements are on the ground, and we have more than 150,000 American soldiers and Marines in the cauldron. The only surge in sight is an inevitable surge in the numbers of those troops being killed and wounded.
More than 3,500 Americans have now been killed in action and more than 29,000 wounded, along with an additional 25,000-plus injured in accidents. That's close to 60,000 American casualties to date, and God alone knows how many Iraqis have been killed and wounded in the war and the civil war - certainly hundreds of thousands.
The central focus of George W. Bush's escalation was to make Baghdad more secure so that the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki could take control of its own capital. In truth, Baghdad seems no more secure now than it was - only a more target-rich environment - and even the president and his generals predict that things will get worse before they get better. If they get better.
A beleaguered president must travel to Albania, of all places, to find a little love. Will he now, as Richard Nixon before him, become an inveterate lame-duck globetrotter in search of a crowd that will cheer him? What's next? Kazakhstan? Tierra del Fuego? How about Baghdad?
The Army and Marines scrape and scratch and scheme and pay big bucks and beguile high school dropouts, even those with criminal records, in their efforts to recruit enough young men and women to replace the casualties and those who are leaving the service.
The administration doesn't want you to worry about any of this. It's summertime, shopping time, surf's up. Head for the beach and bury your heads in the sand.
The planes loaded with flag-draped coffins soar over the Atlantic coast sunbathers to land at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the site of the military mortuary, unseen as they come home to a nation that barely noticed when they left so full of hope and dreams. Your government, your president, has banned cameras from Dover so those images won't intrude on your good times and good life.
The planes loaded with the scores of wounded - some of them double and triple amputees with bodies and brains shattered by the roadside bombs and mines that are responsible for two-thirds of our casualties - fly over the beachfront bars and restaurants and land at Andrews Air Force Base outside the nation's capital in the dark of night. The administration doesn't want too many people noticing them, either.
Both major political parties in this country, their eyes firmly fixed on November 2008 and a change in what passes for leadership these days, each have so many self-deluded candidates for their presidential nominations that they may have to start sharing the microphone at debates.
No one among the declared candidates to date seems worthy of the office. In fact, we seem to have arrived at a point where anyone who wants to be president is, ipso facto, unfit to be president.
More than one student of history has looked hard at where we, as a nation, are today and said: "Late Rome."
For those who ask whether there is no good news from the Iraq war zone, the answer is a qualified yes.
In Fallujah in the Sunni heartland of Anbar province west of Baghdad, where once American tanks and warplanes had to destroy the city in order to save it, the powerful tribal sheikhs have turned away from the foreign jihadists and al-Qaeda in Iraq operatives. Sick of the senseless slaughter and angered when it touched their own families and tribes, they've sent their young men to fight against the extremists they once sheltered.
But even this good news has more to do with the Iraqis and their own Byzantine feuds and alliances than it does with us. In other words, this has everything to do with the Iraqis and their goals, and little or nothing to do with us and our goals.

Hey Joe what are those goals today?