The latest CBS News poll figures are out and again, Dear Leader has broken new ground in victim popularity.

(CBS) The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high.

Americans are also overwhelmingly opposed to the Bush-backed deal giving a Dubai-owned company operational control over six major U.S. ports. Seven in 10 Americans, including 58 percent of Republicans, say they're opposed to the agreement.

Thirty-four percent. Just think about that. CBS has always run fairly reliable polls, unlike Gallup, whose Bush polls never report lower than 39 %. (The reason that Gallup polls are consistently 4 to 5 % higher than any other organizations lies in the underlying data – Gallup uses samples consisting of 44% registered Republican, 31 to 34 percent “undeclared” and only 22 to 25 % registered Democrat.)

Only one in three Americans is willing to publicly admit to favoring the most dishonest, corrupt man ever put into the Oval Office.

CBS News senior White House correspondent Jim Axelrod reports that now it turns out the Coast Guard had concerns about the ports deal, a disclosure that is no doubt troubling to a president who assured Americans there was no security risk from the deal.

That’s right – did you know that? And – silly me – here I thought only the Vaterlandsicherheitamt (DHS for those of you still refuse to admit all the similarities between Bu$hCo and the NSDAP) was opposed to the deal, until Dear Leader explained to Gauleiter Chertoff just how unpleasant it is down at Gitmo. Now, The Coast Guard does more than just rescue drunk weekend sailors when they run out of gas 9 miles off shore. They also inspect foreign flag cargo ships, and their cargoes, on the open sea and sometimes even in US ports.

The troubling results for the Bush administration come amid reminders about the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina and negative assessments of how the government and the president have handled it for six months.

In a separate poll, two out of three Americans said they do not think President Bush has responded adequately to the needs of Katrina victims. Only 32 percent approve of the way President Bush is responding to those needs, a drop of 12 points from last September’s poll, taken just two weeks after the storm made landfall.

Thirty-two percent. That’s because Americans have had time to process Katrina, after six months. They’ve seen the consequences of an inept, corrupt, rudderless malAdministration that is more interested in looting the Treasury than in saving American lives. They’re having trouble processing the results of the UAE deal.

“Noone ever thought someone would ship a nucular weapon into one of our ports”