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.
Coast Guard Has Port Co. Intel Gaps
Citing broad gaps in U.S. intelligence, the Coast Guard cautioned the Bush administration weeks ago that it could not determine whether a United Arab Emirates-based company seeking a stake in some U.S. port operations might support terrorist operations.
Menendez, Clinton Introduce Bill to Ban Foreign Government Control of U.S. Ports
United States Senators Robert Menendez and Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined by Senators Frank R. Lautenberg, Barbara Boxer and Bill Nelson, today introduced legislation to ban companies owned by foreign governments from controlling operations at U.S. ports. The bill would block the pending sale of U.S. port operations to Dubai Ports World, a company owned by the government of the United Arab Emirates.
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Lawmakers from all parts of the country and of every political stripe called on President Bush to reverse course on this deal to outsource control of our ports to a foreign government, Menendez said. Instead he chose stall tactics that only mask his administration s plan to move full speed ahead with this sale. Since the president won t act to keep our ports safe, we will.
Time to get an up or down vote on securing America.
At his rock bottom, shit-can worst, Nixon’s approval numbers didn’t
drop below 37%.
All tolled and all polled, this President will no doubt go down as the
worst of all time.
My worst fear is that his incompetent, silver-spoon fed existence
has infected us with a malady from which it will take decades for
us to recover from. I mean that in toto. Economic, social progress,
environmental, international diplomacy, the whole fuckin’ ball of
wax!
So, will this policy apply to the Chinese control of west-coast ports, sold off during the Clinton administration?
J.
Jay Tea — Clinton? That gun is full of blanks. Face it, Bush is toast, and you’re still insisting that the Titanic is unsinkable.
–oh, hell. We already had that “accountability moment” as Dubya would say. Pity they keep coming back even after being disgraced and chased from power.
Congress is irrelevant to this crew: Congress makes law / ignore it. Congress cuts funding / bury the money request in another program. That’s what pisses me off. They “assume” they know better… and we all know where that leads.
Fine, Roundheels. Drop the Clinton reference. Will the measure require that the Chinese companies running west-coast ports give up their contracts that they’ve held for years?
Quite frankly, I’m more worried about Peking than Dubai. China was once already caught trying to smuggle a couple thousand AK-47 knockoffs into the US.
J.
34% would be a “Vote of No Confidence,” in any other country. Sort of like “impeachment” for non-performance of one’s duties, without the actual removal from office, part (unfortunately).
I thought it was a tough gig defending Clinton during the scandal years…. but he never touched 34%.
Not 34%.
JK
Jay -
At first blush it looks like it would, but if you are so hot about the issue why don’t you go look it up and report back to the class.
Face it, Bush is toast,
What the hell does this mean? He’s not going to be running again.
Jay C: He was never really elected 2000 or 2004, so actually he’ll be running for the first time in 2008…
“So, will this policy apply to the Chinese control of west-coast ports, sold off during the Clinton administration?”
Hey Jay, any idea when the Chinese company, Cosco, first began operating in the Port of Long Beach? Wanna take a wild guess?
What the hell does this mean? He s not going to be running again.
It means that like any lame duck his opportunities to mold the country in his pusillanimous image are quickly fading into the sunset, and all I can say is, thank God.
But that doesn’t mean the reality based community can relax!
The sample is a bit skewed - Bush’s approval should actually be 36%. The CBS sample had 39%D-29%R. But if you reajust it to 34D-33R you only bump Bush up by 2 points because GOP support for Bush dropped to 72% (lowest ever) and Independent disapproval jumped to 61%. Dems disapprove of Bush is at a rate of 86% to 9%. Once upon a time Republicans supported Bush at levels over 90%. Maybe it’s the ports issue, or immigration, or pessimism on Iraq but Bush is starting to lose his base. They won’t vote for Democrats in November 2006, but they might stay home. Either way, GOP Congressmen will run away from Bush. Or maybe they’ll get all schizo about it like Forrester or Kilgore did - and pay the price.
Well, the last two items are idotic. Why or how would the Coast Gurad be able to guess what a foreign government would do. Idiotic. Second. Clinton and Menedez are going full bore, xenophobic, 19th century protectionist. No foreign governments indeed. Where has the Bush hate preoccupation taken the party of open-mindedness and inclusiveness? Does this mean, they will kick the Chinese out of LA or is that foreign operated facility somehow safe?
Dugger, H*ll I remember the 19th century
Wow, Frank’s comment just zipped over your head, didn’t it? And he’s not known for being clever.
I wouldn’t go ahead an book a hall for the Inauguration Party in ‘09, your pResident has the support of only 1/3 of the population. He is already a failed pResident. But we know you love a monarchy.
Frank_D(enial) wrote:
So, we can re-elect him again?
Boy, won’t that piss off the libs!
Uhhh, Frank, I hate to tell you (well, no, that’s a lie; I don’t hate to tell you this at all!), but President Bush had 3½ million more votes than Senator Kerry, and thumped him soundly in Ohio (which is where I assume your statement led).
I’m stuck on this issue. I can see both sides…I hate it when that happens.
That said, the WH is screwing this up royally, as per usual. Guess thats what happens when you’re supposed to be in charge of a nation like the states and you spend more time working out and quail hunting than you do paying attention to business.
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Dana, Frank was being sarcastic.
I wouldn t go ahead an book a hall for the Inauguration Party in 09, your pResident has the support of only 1/3 of the population.
‘pResident’ - Wow. That’s really clever.
It’s hard to count how many times since 1994 you guys have written obituaries for anybody in the GOP. 5 times you were going to take back the house. You got the Senate back only partially due to the defection of a Republican and then you lost more seats. 2004 was going to bring in a new Dem President. Didn’t happen (cue: That’s because Bush stole the election!!!! OHIO!!! DIEBOLD!!! HE STOLE IT!!). Now many of you are off predicting - again - a Congressional takeover in 2006 and a White House victory in 2008.
Maybe you should WIN something before predicting more wins.
“and thumped him soundly in Ohio”
in Ohio, where polling centers in Gahanna and other counties were closed to the press in the 11th hour, citing “National Security reasons”. Red flags, anyone?? Regardless of whether King George legitimately beat Kerry elsewhere in the nation, even the most ardent supporter knows that the Ohio results were tampered with.
“Does this mean, they will kick the Chinese out of LA or is that foreign operated facility somehow safe?”
Guys, please stop making asses out of yourselves. Republican representatives Duncan Hunter and Randy Cunningham (yes, that Randy Cunningham) have been trying to force COSCO out of Long Beach since 1997. Of course COSCO has been operating in the Port of Long Beach since 1981, when who was president? Someone remind me. And it ain’t just the West Coast boys. Boston struck a deal with COSCO in 2002 and has since strengthened relations with the Chinese shipping industry. Wait, wait, who don’t tell me who’s president now, I’ll get it … http://www.massport.com/about/press_news_sisdal.html
Idiots.
Oh and in case you think Duncan and Cunningham were operating out of some righteous concern for port security, they also both happen to be the Congressional representatives for San Diego, you know the largest commercial port south of Long Beach. LB wanted to convert an abandoned naval base into a new port facility with COSCO and Duncan and Cunninghamd played the Red Menace card to protect San Diego from a little competition. How free market capitalist of them.
Regardless of whether King George legitimately beat Kerry elsewhere in the nation, even the most ardent supporter knows that the Ohio results were tampered with.
No actually, only the most ardent Bush hater ‘knows’ the results in Ohio were tampered with. Ohio is their excuse. Rather than just accepting that Kerry lost (and proving that a Northeastern liberal cannot win a Presidential election these days. Hell, only twice in the last 74 years have Democrats had anybody north of the Mason Dixon line win a Presidential election) you’d rather cook up some wild eyed conspiracy theory that Bush won Ohio because of some kind of malfeasance on the part of the GOP and the Administration.
A conspiracy that nobody can penetrate. Yet at the same time, you accuse the same people of not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time. I mean, which is it already? A bunch of svengali like geniuses who are able to throw elections their way undetected by anybody but the tinfoil hat crowd or a political version of a Marx Brothers movie?
When will you guys learn not to rely on bogus media polls? The sample included 272 Republicans and 409 Democrats. Of course the approval rating will be low for a Republican President.
How many Republican presidents came from north of the Mason Dixon line in the past 74 years?
Answer: 1, Eisenhower. Unless you want to argue that Bush I was from Maine (he in fact was, but claims to be from Texas) So yet another wild-eyed, insane diatribe from JC falls into the gutter.
factcheck,
Perhaps another moniker? (’factfake’, ‘fact-half-correct’?) Tampico, Il. (RR) is certainly above the Mason Dixon line and so apparently is Omaha (GRF).
Dugger, Fact Cop
LAME DUCK!!!! A WHOPPING 34%!!!
Actually, exclude Ford- Jay C’s insane rant talked about “elected” presidents, Ford was never elected.
Reagan is from California, Ford is from Michigan (forgot about him, Michigan is above the M/D line.
Richard Nixon was from California as well.
Factcheck: The elder President Bush was twice elected to Congress from Texas, in the 1960s; it’s pretty difficult to consider him a Mainiac.
Skewed polls like this only serve to keep Democrats in their bubble.
poor factcheck,
Waste deep in the Big Muddy.
Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois - ‘born’ - which is what most people refer to when describing where someone is from.
Pres Ford was born in Omigod, Nebraska
Plus don’t think we didn’t notice the arbitrary ‘74′ years, excluding thereby Herbert Hoover, Iowa; Coolidge Vermont; Taft, Harding and McKinley all Ohio; and TR NY - all since 1900 and all Republicans and all above the Mason Dixon line.
Dugger, Fact Cop (but with too much time on his hands)
qkslvr_wolf Says:
February 28th, 2006 at 9:45 am
I m stuck on this issue. I can see both sides& I hate it when that happens.
I know how you feel.
Putting the onus right back where it belongs:
“74 years” was the parameter Mr. Caruso chose. Mr. Check just took it from there.
Since Reagan is from Illinois, I guess Bush the lesser (and the older) are both from Connecticut. How then did Shrubbie get his Texas accent?
Ford wasn’t elected, therefore he still doesn’t count as an “elected president from the last 74 years”. Remember, I can’t educate you if you don’t want to learn.
How many Republican presidents came from north of the Mason Dixon line in the past 74 years?
Answer: 1, Eisenhower. Unless you want to argue that Bush I was from Maine (he in fact was, but claims to be from Texas) So yet another wild-eyed, insane diatribe from JC falls into the gutter.
Huh? Are you that ignorant? It is common when referring to the ‘Mason-Dixon’ line in a context of discussing somebody that is not from the south. The last time I checked, California was not in the south. Reagan and Nixon are both from California (Reagan is from Illinois originally, but I say ‘from California’ because that’s where he Governed).
Cripes look at the facts. Name the last three Democratic Presidents -
Bill Clinton - From Arkansas
Jimmy Carter - From Georgia
Lyndon Johnson - From Texas
Which Democratic candidates were beaten (popular vote):
John Kerry - Massachusetts
Michael Dukakis - Massachusetts
Walter Mondale - Minnesota
George McGovern - South Dakota
Hubert Humphrey - Minnesota
The only Democrat to lose not outside the south was Carter in 1980 and that’s because he was a horrid President. Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000. A Tennessee native.
Why do you think there’s a buzz about Mark Warner running for President in 2008? Or John Edwards? I don’t know any of my Democratic friends that are eagerly awaiting another run from John Kerry or Hillary Clinton.
Don’t you see a pattern here? This isn’t partisan stuff. It’s common frigging sense.
Let’s also not forget another possible factor in electing a President… the length of time as elected official. I had posted this 3 months before the 04 election and my theory proved right again that Nov.
I Should Have Known
I don’t think there’s a Republican around who is going to argue that President Bush is doing great politically at the moment. However, Democrats never seem to learn and are touting this latest CBS poll as more ‘proof’ of how
California is north of the mason-dixon line. That’s pretty funny. Maybe Crazy Jay needs a history lesson. Maybe he should take his medication today. Remember, Crazy Jay, medication is good for you.
You’re a red sox fan, you’re idiocy is implied.
Factcheck,
That must explain the preponderence of Confederate flags in the state.
Or maybe you’re just that stupid.
hey factcheck
Notice kind and gentle compassionate conservative Dugger is not being a big meany any more in this, your cyber-moment oduress (now help me get that d*mn elusive Quaker - sneak attack from his left flank).
Dugger, a ‘Hawkchicken’ (served but was scared while doing it)
BTW, Brandon, there aren’t many Confederate flags in Columbia, does that mean it is north of the mason/dixon line? Idiot.