So much for the "Bump" of fear

After all the past events of the past two weeks, especially the bombing that punditry like Cokie Roberts said would boost his ratings, the opposite has happened:

The last two weeks certainly have been eventful ones in America and across the globe: President Bush gave a prime-time speech on Iraq and attended a G-8 summit in Scotland; Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement from the Supreme Court (with perhaps another retirement on the way); and suicide bombers killed approximately 50 people in London. After these events, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that Bush’s overall job rating has slipped and that his rating for being “honest and straightforward” has dropped to its lowest point.

The survey, which was conducted from July 8-11 among 1,009 adults, and which has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, finds that respondents, by a 49 percent-to-46 percent margin, disapprove of Bush’s job performance. That’s a drop from the last NBC/Journal poll in May, when 47 percent approved and 47 percent disapproved.

At the link you can also see that not all that many people feel the "Steeleyed Rocket Man" is honest.

By the way, the timing of the poll reveals it is going to get even worse:

(The survey, however, was taken just before these allegations about Rove exploded into the current controversy.)

I now demand that Cokie Roberts retire from the punditry corps!