Cenk Uygar

"New poll numbers out on George W. Bush. He has broken a record. He's in the teens. He's in the teens! Nineteen percent approval rating. Unheard of for a president...!

"Remember when Nixon left office? He was at 24%. He resigned in disgrace with a 24% approval rating. Bush is at 19%. Wow!

"His disapproval rating is 77%. But to be fair, if you look at just the registered voters - now I know they're not going to be voting for Bush but believe me that's going to affect the Republican nominee - the approval rating is 18%. It's even worse!"

Jim Hightower

I must admit that the seven-year reign of Bush & Company makes me yearn for the years of Ronald Reagan, when the term "conservative" merely meant right wing, rather than full-tilt, bull-goose loopy.

Still, let's not get our national memory so warped that we put 'the gipper" on a pedestal, as today's far-right ideologs want to do.

Bad enough that they keep tryin' ta stick Reagan's name on public facilities apparently oblivious to the irony of naming these things for a guy who claimed to hate government.

But now they're pushing to put his mug on Mt. Rushmore!

Jim Hightower

"It's always impressive to see a politician take an unbending stand on principal, so I salute George W., for going against popular opinion by vetoing the SChip bill.

It would have extended coverage to some six million uninsured children in our country. Bush said that what irked him about this health proposal is the principal of providing government financed coverage which he derided as federalized medicine.

George, you see, is a die-hard privatization ideolog. And he insists that people should get their health care from the free market not the government. The vast majority of his Republican cohorts in Congress agreed..."

John Trudell

Trudell is the son of a Santee Sioux father and a Mexican mother. He grew up around the Santee reservation near Omaha. He joined the Navy in 1963 and served in the Vietnam war. After getting out of the military he became involved in Indian activism and became the spokesperson for the Indians of All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz Island. He joined the American Indian Movement and, although not officially voted in, was its national Chairman from 1972 until 1979 after Carter Camp went to jail.