Longtime GOP Pollster Suggests Bush Moves Might Be Too Little, Too Late.

Source: Washington Post

Was the recent White House shake-up too little, too late?

Well, if you believe the opinion of Lance Tarrance, a prominent GOP pollster, then the answer is yes, and this administration has all but flatlined.

The recent White House shake-up was an attempt to jump-start the administration and boost President Bush's rock-bottom approval ratings, but have those efforts come too late to salvage the presidency? A prominent GOP pollster thinks that may be the case.

"This administration may be over," Lance Tarrance, a chief architect of the Republicans' 1960s and '70s Southern strategy, told a gathering of journalists and political wonks last week. "By and large, if you want to be tough about it, the relevancy of this administration on policy may be over."

The new poll of 1,003 adults was conducted April 27-30 (after Bush had picked a new chief of staff, budget director and press secretary) and was released at a conference sponsored by the Cook Political Report. It contains plenty of other bad news for Bush and the Republican Party, and suggests that the growing unpopularity of the Iraq war may be turning this year's midterm congressional elections from local to national issues.

Another prominent GOP member gets it.

This administration is doing nothing more than re-shuffling the deck chairs on the S.S. Titanic which has become their failing policies and initiatives.

I guess in this analogy, impeachment is the final blow--the Bush administration's iceberg they are destined to hit.

Sweet, sweet karma.

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