In my home George Bush does not have an approval rating.

The best our President seems able to do is occasionally lower his disapproval level. I didn’t hear him say anything really stupid in is speech last night, so in my efforts to be fair I have slightly lowered my disapproval rating.

In the news analysis after the speech, even the Republican pundit admitted the President did not call on the American people to make a sacrifice. Hurricane Katrina has an enormous price tag, as did 9-11, that calls for a shared sacrifice. And it calls for more than a “spend and go into debt” economic policy. It seems to me Republicans will have to eliminate “tax and spend liberal” from their partisan name calling.