Since today is fun with Excel Graphs day, I thought it would be fun to look at the approval ratings in March for a president’s second term. This data, from Huffington Post, makes a pretty convincing visual that Shrub is looking like, walking like, and quacking like the lamest of ducks.

When you’re polling 11% points worse than Nixon in March of 1973, you know things are really bad. Consider that it was 29 March 1973 when the last troops were being withdrawn from an eleven- (thirteen-? nine-? depends on who you ask) year engagement in Vietnam, following the deaths of 56,856 US servicemen (up to that point). It’s 28 months into Iraq and only 1,735 deaths, and you’re polling at 45%?

Remember, Tricky Dick won the 1972 by a landslide; a real mandate, not this 0.726% you call a mandate, George. By March of 1973, he was polling at 57%. By 9 May 1974, he was being impeached, and on 8 August 1974, Nixon resigned.

Here’s hoping that George Bush has failed to learn from the past and is doomed to repeat it.