2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we’ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We’ve been reposting many of those archived articles, headlines, photo-toons, BilgeBucket Lists and other content over the past twelve years. In honor of our 20th, and because we’re sick of the current state of affairs in the world, we’ll be reposting more items from 2003 through 2009 throughout this year.

For our next Lil’ DubToon, we revisit 2007 after the 2006 midterm elections where George W. Bush and the Republicans got whomped which resulted in the Democrats taking over both the House and Senate. Despite the results, Dubya continued making excuse after excuse for the failures in the Iraq War, the Afghanistan quagmire and the exploding housing market. Thus, Bush’s polls tumbled precipitously into the 20’s. But Dubya stubbornly waxed poetic, saying sometimes polls just go poof. His didn’t just go poof, they exploded massively in his face. By the end of his presidency, Bush was polling at an anemic 22 percent.

Here’s our DubToon from our June 26, 2007 issue featuring Dubya lamenting that his polls went kablooey.

“I’ve been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.”

George W. Bush
04-19-2007