It Gets Uglier

It looks like the Katrina Catastrophe, the "Uranium From Africa" Prevarication, the Tora Bora Mishap, PlameGate, the Terri Schiavo Blunder, the Jack Abramoff Scandal, the Iraq Misadventure, the Medicare Disaster, the Dubai Debacle, and the host of other BushCo malfeasances are finally starting to take their toll on Bush's poll numbers:

The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high.

Americans are also overwhelmingly opposed to the Bush-backed deal giving a Dubai-owned company operational control over six major U.S. ports. Seven in 10 Americans, including 58 percent of Republicans, say they're opposed to the agreement. * * *

Mr. Bush's overall job rating has fallen to 34 percent, down from 42 percent last month. Fifty-nine percent disapprove of the job the president is doing.

For the first time in this poll, most Americans say the president does not care much about people like themselves. Fifty-one percent now think he doesn't care, compared to 47 percent last fall.

Just 30 percent approve of how Mr. Bush is handling the Iraq war, another all-time low.

By two to one, the poll finds Americans think U.S. efforts to bring stability to Iraq are going badly – the worst assessment yet of progress in Iraq.

Even on fighting terrorism, which has long been a strong suit for Mr. Bush, his ratings dropped lower than ever. Half of Americans say they disapprove of how he's handling the war on terror, while 43 percent approve.

Unfortunately for Bush, the two things that are really hurting him right now -- the Dubai Port Deal and the Civil War in Iraq -- will probably remain big stories for quite a while.