War On Reality Part 10 ; Bushbeaten? Is President Bush Single-Handedly Destroying His Own Party? (And Country?)

A Newsweek poll has shown that President Bush's approval rating has fallen to a new low of 28 percent.

This is not just a new low for Mr Bush but also the lowest that this specific poll has ever recorded in a generation and the lowest for a Republican President since Jimmy Carter scored 28 percent in 1979.

The Bush effect has influences on the 2008 election candidates too, with all Republicans planning to stand having lower approval ratings than their Democratic equivalents. It was telling at the Republican debate in California that the President was hardly mentioned at all.

The Truthiness Blog Says ; When 2008 does roll round will the years 2001-2008 simply be written off in Presidential terms as a black hole for politics, democracy and the US? Or as he's so fond of saying, will history prove his critics wrong?

Pres Bush's Got A List ; He's Checking It Twice

In two stories we're covering today, we can see both of them colliding head on and leaving several newspaper readers dead.

Tonight President Bush's State Of The Union address will be mostly just a list of the candidates who are not running for the 2008 Presidential election.

The Truthiness Blog has been leaked some details of the speech, here's an extract of the list of those not running,

- Jennifer Aniston

- Judi Dench

- Eddie Murphy

- Lou Dobbs (confirmed)

- Martin Sheen (he's busy studying)

- Paris Hilton (for the sake of our union)

- George W Bush

- Barney Bush

- Gerald Ford

- C Montgomery Burns

This list is subject to change, as a result, campaigners for Barney Bush '08 have started making placards.

They claim he can't do any worse than his owner.