A lot of people have been talking about this Gallup poll where Bush is now more popular than Obama. I didn’t get too excited about it, though. For one, it’s Gallup, and going by their record of accuracy, we can’t even be sure there was a president Bush. And second, this is expected, as you’ll always have a worse opinion of the guy currently giving you a beating.

Still, the negative opinions of Bush by the end of his term were a bit over the top crazy. And the high opinions of Obama never made sense versus reality. So this change in opinion could just be people being more sensible about things. And much of what the left used to freak out over about Bush, Obama has now continued and made even more extreme. So if they want to defend Obama, they can’t act like Bush was awful anymore. In fact, they basically have to argue that the problem with Bush was he didn’t go far enough. “That stupid Bushitler! He should have blown up more Americans without trial!”

And if Obama wanted people to have a higher opinion of him, he shouldn’t have been reelected. It would be easier for people to argue that Obama was better than we gave him credit for if there wasn’t this second term to confirm how awful he is.

I wonder if opinion will go up for Obama after he’s out of office? I guess it would kind of be like how traumatic a traffic accident is once you’re in it, but years later you can look back and say, “That was an interesting time.”

Is it just me, or has it been a while since I wrote column? I guess I got lazy with the whole “new kid” thing and some other projects (one of these days, my fiction is going to get published and it’s going to be awesome!). And people around me in Idaho don’t believe I’m a columnist anymore. I try to explain to them, “In New York City there is like a paper and you’ll find me in it.” And then I try to explain to them about New York City with its tall buildings and shiny lights, but they don’t believe me. And they don’t have the internet here in Idaho to check it out; we just exchange information by writing things down on potatoes and chucking them at each other.

But enough about me. Let’s instead talk about me. So, I have a new column in the New York Post about how I’m getting worried about how isolated, paranoid our government is getting. Frankly, it’s becoming an anti-citizen extremist.

The feds have shown warning signs for years, becoming increasingly withdrawn, hunkered down in their bunkers in DC. They’re disconnected from what’s going on in the rest of the country, getting their news only from extremist sources like Media Matters, MSNBC and The New York Times. And in their fear and isolation, federal workers seem willing to believe almost any crazy conspiracy theory about the American public — such as that everyone is secretly racist against the president and that people are going to form militias to fight the government.

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