Most Americans oppose fully funding President Bush’s $190 billion request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a sizable majority supports an expansion of a children’s health insurance bill the president has promised to veto, putting Bush and many congressional Republicans on the wrong side of public opinion on upcoming foreign and domestic policy battles.
The new Washington Post-ABC News poll also shows deep dissatisfaction with the president and Congress. Bush’s approval rating stands at 33 percent, equal to his career low in Post-ABC polls. Congressional approval is even lower: Just 29 percent approve of the job the Congress is doing. That is Congress’s lowest approval rating in this poll since November 1995, when Republicans controlled both the House and Senate, and represents a 14-point drop since Democrats took control last January.
Still, the public rates congressional Republicans (29 percent approve) lower than congressional Democrats (38 percent approve). And when the two parties are pitted directly against one another, the public broadly favors Democrats to handle Iraq, health care, the federal budget and the economy. Only on the issue of terrorism are Republicans at parity with Democrats.
Considering the history, parity on terrorism is essentially a win for the Democrats, something the GOP has usually dominated Democrats on. The mandate from America is as clear as glass, if the Democrats started acting like how the people want them to act, we would get some stuff done.
Grow a pair, folks.
If they cut off the money 100%, George W. Bush would leave the troops there even if they ran out of ammo. He would rather 100,000 troops died than admit the war is lost and he was wrong.
The only way to get those troops home before January 2009 is if he is impeached.
Well put, Oliver! I quoted you here: http://bucknakedpolitics.typepad.com/buck_naked_politics/2007/10/new-poll-republ.html