The White house isclaiming that Chimpy will hit 45% job approval by the end of his “legacy year”.

Gallup says he has a long way to go.

Gallup’s latest national poll, conducted Jan. 4-6, finds 32% of Americans approving of the job Bush is doing as president and a mere 23% approving of the job Congress is doing. The previous figures were 32% and 22%, respectively.

More generally, Bush’s approval rating has bobbed between 31% and 34% for almost the entire period from May 2007 through today, averaging 33%.