Remember that cheesy ad for some TV product back in the day that featured an elderly woman saying, “Help–I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”? Well, that’s the Bush White House and the national GOP at the moment. The latest Gallup poll has Bush’s approval rating at 36%, and congressional approval at 23%. The satisfied-with-the-way-things-are-going-in-the-U.S. number is at 27%. I hate to say it but the comparison that Dick Morris makes today between Bush and Carter–just in terms of sheer listlessness and a foreign event draining all of a president’s strength–has occurred to me more than once recently. What is most disturbing is that as their boat heads steadily toward a disastrous trip over the falls, neither Bush nor the GOP seems to feel any urgency about changing direction, nor seem to have any good ideas about how to do it if they wanted to. (Not that my ideas, or Morris’–drug testing in schools???–are that great either.)