It is time for a new word. 

Sometimes, regardless of what you may have heard, words fail me.  Sometimes I simply cannot find the correct word to express what I am feeling on a given issue.  Now is one of those times. 

The presidunce's approval rating is now down to 29%.  I figure that some small measure of that 29% are truly happy with Bush.  They probably have no war age children or, they would just call in a favor and their kids would not go anyway, and are quite likely extremely well off financially.  Doubtless they are even better off due to the tax cuts and blind eyes they receive from this (mis)administration in exchange for their large individual and organizational donations.  I don't know how many of those folk exist but just for the sake of argument, let's say that they represent 10%.(That is generous on my part because the percentages that are being thrown around in this case are percentages of Americans and there is no way that there are 30,000,000(thirty million) folks in the U.S. who are rich and influential enough to actually benefit from the Idiot-n-Thief's policies.)  So that would leave 19% whose continued support is nearly inexplicable.  Here is where my new word comes in.  It allows me to explicate.

Pathetriot – An individual who pathetically attributes blind loyalty to a national leader who is incapable, uncaring, abusive, and undeserving, to patriotism in an attempt to absolve themselves for the lack of anything laudable in their lives.

That 19%, or however many it really is, are clearly displaying pathetriotic behavior.  Feel free to use the word.  Attribute it or not, I know where it came from.

CAFKIA

[cross-posted from Meanderthal]