It seems that about 33% of the people will approve of almost anything at all as long as they're making money. Now, what would happen if the economy tanks, as seems inevitable.

As the song says, "If the right one don't get you, the left one will." And together, well, there will still be some folks who inherited a surplus and ran up the biggest deficits in all areas the world has ever seen.

"US economy 'heading for slowdown.' The outlook for the US economy is set to worsen.

"The US economy will slow sharply in the second half of the year and the risk of it going into recession cannot be ruled out, the OECD has warned."

"Sanchez, former U.S. commander in Iraq, calls war 'a nightmare with no end in sight'." By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes, Mideast edition, Saturday, October 13, 2007

"ARLINGTON, Va. – The former top commander of U.S. troops in Iraq slammed the handling of the war and gave a bleak assessment of the current situation in Iraq."

Now this guy has impecable credentials, though he will be smeared by the Bush-Cheney machine.

Arf