Mr. Bush is a wounded, deeply unpopular president, fighting a war that Americans feel has made them less safe and cost hundreds of billions of dollars and the lives of almost 3000 soldiers. The Republican-controlled Congress, virtually every poll says, is on the nose with a large majority — more than 70 per cent — who are angry and disappointed with the way their politicians are governing.And on every main issue, from the war in Iraq to the state of the economy, rising petrol prices and growing concern about illegal immigration, Americans reckon their politicians are failing them. (more…)

From WRH:

Fear is all Bush has left. And if any ‘attack’ were to happen in the US in the coming days, it would simply telegraph to American and the world that Bush and his cronies are utterly, contemptuously impotent to counter any terrorism directed against the US, even after all of their assaults on our Constitution and Bill of Rights.