Heck of job, Bushie.
President Bush s job-approval rating has fallen to its lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an excellent or pretty good job as president, down from 35% in April and significantly lower than 43% in January.
If Karl gets indicted, I bet Bush falls to 25%.
bush gave a commencement speech at my alma mater last week. http://www.ocolly.com/ For today’s trivia question, at which university did Richard Nixon give the commencement address three months before his resignation?
It’s pony time!
Wow. That is historic. 29%. Not in my lifetime have I ever seen a U.S. President hit that kind of low.
I just read that a reeling GOP Senate just voted today for a $70B tax cut, mostly to wealthy families and investors.
Tonight, on the way home from work, I heard Laura Ingram explain to her minions why an NSA database of our outgoing phone calls was a good thing.
Pause………………….
If I were to type, at this moment, what I thought of the GOP, conservatives, and Red state America…I would never welcome back on this blog. It’s not hate…but it’s damn close.
JK
If bush hits 25% I think the prize ought to be something other than just another damn pony.
29% should set off panic alarms. Republicans in Congress have no idea if they should circle the wagons (as Rove has instructed) or declare independence. I think they’re screwed either way. Bush is now at a point where a major external event – like a terrorist attack – would actually make people hate him more, not rally around him. The only thing that can help is pulling troops out of Iraq and a sudden plunge in gas prices. I bet that would only get him back to 39% though.
Peggy Noonan said it for me yesterday:
That’s why I don’t trust politicians. And, until I can trust politicians, I don’t trust government.
So where are the Republican trolls up in this piece?
Nimrod Gently: Trolls are not “people not liked by Nimrod.” You are all glorying in a number…
Is there an answer, or response you were expecting?
There is, however, some interesting news from the Not – Very – Conservative Brookings Institute
http://www.brook.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf
You can file it in the “Why won’t the Bush administration go away?” file…
I think that was probably the response that Nimrod was expecting: sh*t-eating poohpooh-ing of the poll numbers and 57 pages of “oops, change the topic!”
If it looks ike a troll, talks like a troll, and spews partisan hackery like a troll…
Of course, Wilbur, your response was as lacking incontent, as it was predictable.
Maybe I can clear up your obvious confusion.
1) My first comment more or less agreed with Nimrod that the Republicans were messing up, but not because they were about to get booted off the political equivalent of American Idol. Obviously such a direct and intelligent response threw you for a loop.
2) My second response indicated yet another string of successes for the Bush administration, obviously a better kept secret than the counterterrorism tactics of the NSA — yet another indicator of the MSM’s anti – Bush bias.
3) from the DailyKos: Troll – People who post to message boards for the sole purpose of picking fights, creating schisms and generally making things unpleasant for everyone else [see Roni, and beans]. They do not necessarily believe what they post.
With the decreasing poll ratings of Bush, his supporters are looking more and more like a focus group, not to be taken seriously.
So when will Democrats start an effort to enact a constitutional amendment to make poll results cause for removal from office?
‘Now, Mr. Dugger, take your choice. You can have these bright and shiny JimDandy poll results, reinforcing your strongly negative prejudices about the opposition or you can have 8 years of real power by controlling Congress and the Presidency while doing things like appointing conservative supreme court justices (with the connivance of conservative Democrats) and passing tax cut legislation.’
Dohhh. I think I’ll take those JimDandy poll results.
Dugger
Live by the polls, Die by the polls…
Frank is absolutely right.
Think about it — This is the only liberal blog in the entire world where the right wing moonbat commenters have completely taken over and the liberals are the trolls!!
Way to go, OW!
Either, or?
That implies that holding power results from NOT having good poll results.
Let us put that to the test, shall we?
Frank_D Says:
May 12th, 2006 at 9:48 am
3) from the DailyKos: Troll – People who post to message boards for the sole purpose of picking fights, creating schisms and generally making things unpleasant for everyone else [see Roni, and beans]. They do not necessarily believe what they post.
LOL … Beans, I TOLD you we shouldna disagreed with him!! He knows better just beCAUSE. Still can’t find Frank’s website and its wealth of facts and superior knowledge.
The only thing I’m not looking forward to is the right wing pushback. The “Dems=Nuclear Traitors” and bible banning idiocy and anti gay whatnot. That’s going to suck. Otherwise it’s hard not to be excited about the potential for a Democratic House.
Yes Quaker, and now that I think about it, Jim Dandy makes grits and doesn’t do polls.
Dugger
“I was riding on a submarine
Got a message from my mermaid queen.
She was hanging on a fishing line.
Mr. Dandy didn’t waste no time!
Jim Dandy to the rescue!
Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy!”
Great song, Dugger! One of my faves!
“Hint: relaxing border security, giving illegal immigrants amnesty, and relying on the UN to prevent nuclear proliferation have never worked. Try something else this time.)”
Nice strawman.
Actually the more interesting results are further down in the poll.
Congressional Republicans got only a 20% approval rating. Dems did just as bad, only 23%. And the overall approval rating for congress is just 18%. With numbers like those, I would find it hard to imagine that Bush could score anything appreciably higher.
It’s also interesting to note that 68% of self-identified liberals gave Congressional Democrats a disfavorable rating and 64% of self-identified Conservatives gave Republicans a disfavorable rating.
If anything, these ratings show that neither party is making their base happy.
You also have to look at the direction of the country. Those numbers are bad too — only 24% are positive about the direction of the country. But those numbers have also steadily fallen for years, and according to the historical polling data it is very rare for this number to ever rise above 50%.
I think a lot of people are worried about oil, gas prices, and a looming war in the Middle East. They are also worried about illegal immigration and our ability to deal with large-scale disasters, whether they be from terrorists or nature.
We are also terribly, terribly bored with Washington.
If the Democrats want to win, then they need to push good, historically proven solutions to these problems. (Hint: relaxing border security, giving illegal immigrants amnesty, and relying on the UN to prevent nuclear proliferation have never worked. Try something else this time.)
That was a phone poll. I think the NSA had the results before Harris did.
That s why I don t trust politicians. And, until I can trust politicians, I don t trust government. — frank, who endorses NSA wiretapping, ‘data-mining,’ the criminalization of abortion, etc.
Yo frank — bush is government.
Thanks, buma. You’re a veritable font of information.
I favor the elimination of abortion, because I do not favor the willful, arbitrary, and capricious termination of pregnancies. It need not be “criminalized”, whatever that means (Strike one for you).
Either the NSA is wire – tapping or they are “data – mining”; they are not doing both. They are not engaged in warrantless wire – tapping, to the best of my (and your) knowledge; they are engaged in data – mining, which is not illegal, and which is helping to track down terrorists. Are you opposed to “speed guns” on highways, baby seats, or seat belts? (Strike two for you.)
And, Bush will be out in 8 years maximum. Most Congresshumans are there for life. (Strike three for you)
My name isn’t “Yo Frank”.
You’re outa here!!