On CBS’ Face The Nation yesterday, host Bob Schieffer asked Vice President Cheney whether Americans were “better off now than we were eight years ago.” Cheney replied that the Bush administration had “done some very good things” in that time. But according to the Pew Research Center, the American public disagrees. In an analysis comparing the mood of the country in 2000 and the mood of the country today, Pew found that a “mere 13% of Americans are now satisfied with the way things are going in the country, compared with 55% eight years ago”:
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