President Bush’s approval rating has slumped to 31% in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the lowest of his presidency and a warning sign for Republicans in the November elections. ~USA Today
This caused me to remember a comment by one of my readers. He wondered what it would look like when the “bottom fell out” of the Bush presidency. We are beginning to see what it looks like as Mr. Bush now peers into the coming abyss of approval ratings in the 20s. The reader made the remark that to sink any deeper Bush would start hitting granite. Well, he has hit the granite and has kept going down.
Maximos 
Daniel Larison 
Apparently, conservatives in the mainstream are awakening to the fact that the immigration question is at present the primary factor responsible for the admistration’s hemmorhaging of conservative support.
Nevertheless, given that so much of modern governance involves rhetorical appeals to the good of the nation and the people coupled with assiduous subversion of their actual interests, I expect precisely nothing to come of this. The elites want their immigration “reform”; and so they shall have it. They want cheaper labour and lower wages, for the more efficient employment of capital, you see; and so they shall have it. They want a new people; and so they shall have it. They want the end of Actually Existing America; and so shall it be.
What, after all, given that Goldberg manifestly does not understand the dynamics of modern societies as does Prof. Lukacs, another critic of populism (in fact, I would wager that much of what Lukacs would identify as retrograde populism Gold berg regards as prudent statemenship), could be the meaning of this little missive against uppity conservatives, if not to telegraph the notion that they are about to give them the shaft. For their own good, of course.