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At what percentage will we throw the bums out?
March 10th, 2006 at 3:25 pm% of Americans who would take a crap on Bush’s face = 75 %
March 10th, 2006 at 3:28 pmMyDD makes a great point,
more people Strongly Dissapprove (41%) of Bush than the total percent of people who Approve (18% strongly + 9% somewhat + 10% lean toward)
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/3/10/14448/9926
March 10th, 2006 at 3:31 pmTo explain the other 30%…
35% say the government should not fund stem cell research
34% think Rock and Roll has had an overall negative impact on America
33% believe a wife should “submit herself graciously” to a husband
30% say the Bible is the “actual word of God” to be taken literally
29% think people will be “more likely” to afford college for their kids in 2020
28% disapprove of labor unions on principle
28% say the government should have the right to control news reports
27% believe divorce is “morally wrong”
26% thought various disasters in 1999 might “foreshadow the wrath of God”
26% think grade-school teachers should be allowed to spank their kids
From This Modern World
Z.
March 10th, 2006 at 3:40 pm% of Americans who would fight to be first in line to have Bush take a crap in their face= 25%
March 10th, 2006 at 3:41 pmTo paraphrase Trading Places, “Instruct our clients interested in liberty futures to sell at 72%. Mr. Valentine has set the price.”
March 10th, 2006 at 3:41 pmAgreed, Marie. It’s beginning to look like we need to start from scratch, cleaning out Congress and the White House. Sure as s**t, Congress isn’t going to do anything about it at this point.
March 10th, 2006 at 3:45 pmCongress is Allowing the President to Spy on YOU.
March 10th, 2006 at 3:46 pmSpying on EVERYONE is cheaper than sound Mideast Policy and Port Security.
March 10th, 2006 at 3:47 pmKarl Rove is clutching his chest every morning when he reads his intel reports.
How that guy manages to keep that 30% in line is a mystery to me. Me, I think the 30% doesn’t have a clue and just reflexively loves what they are told to. Why wait for genetic maipulation of the masses, feed ‘em lotsa fatty foods & sodas, tell ‘em that schools are for “liberal elites” and they just turn out dumb bumpkins.
It’s true, IT’S TWWOOOO! (gratuitous Blazing Saddles ripoff).
March 10th, 2006 at 3:47 pmThis tells the whole story:
Bush is 5 to 7 points ahead of where Nixon was during Watergate.
Ouch.
March 10th, 2006 at 3:48 pmThank you Zwack. I was otherwise mystefied about who the folks were who thought the country was on the right track–assuming Bin Laden was not polled
March 10th, 2006 at 3:55 pm#11 – Too true!
Oh, wait! Now it’s time for the trolls to complain about the poll, the questions the poll used, the political affiliation of those questioned for the poll, and just about any other complaint because THIS poll dosn’t fawn over how great Pres. Bush really is!
Of course, if the poll were about Pres. Clinton and his approval rating during his second term, then it would be a poll sanctioned by God himself!
March 10th, 2006 at 3:56 pmSome senator on Ed just gave Iraq 6-8 weeks before outright civil war. Just got back from there.
March 10th, 2006 at 3:56 pmAs usual…who in the F#CK are the 30%ers who think otherwise?
I’d absolutely LOVE it if they would break down those that approve by salary/wealth. I’m betting anyone below the “stinkin’ rich” demographic is absent from that “approval” response.
March 10th, 2006 at 3:56 pmfire the frickin’ driver then!!!
March 10th, 2006 at 3:58 pmWhen i hear that both houses are arresting bush & co then we have a reason to celebrate until then ,there’s a lot of work to be done by re-educating the American people about both Houses refused to up hold our Consitution and Civil Rights . Both Houses has help bush to steal the Wealth of this Country along with American Pride,Morals,Ethics,and Real Compassion.
Women are being made into State owned property.
Children are expendable and this is a damn Shame!
March 10th, 2006 at 4:00 pmEveryone here owes it to themselves to watch Declassified on History channel about Ayatollah Khomeini. After watching it it hit me like a freight train that Iran is about to, or is in the midst of, the 3rd wave of the Iranian revolution. Thanks to the “Axis of Evil” comment and Iraq invasion.
March 10th, 2006 at 4:00 pmCNN…Bush appv.rating at 2%…up from 1%…he’s says he’s on a roll! 40 whitehouse guards removed bush today, kicking and ranting..”You can’t impeach me, I’m the presnut!”..over and over.
March 10th, 2006 at 4:03 pm“You know, in a sane world, every country would unite against Iran and blow it off the face of the earth. That would be the sane thing to do.” —Bill O’Reilly
This is where I remind people the first Iranian Revolution was a revolt against an American Puppet Military Dictator who operated a secret police and death squads.
The Second Iranian Revolution occured after Saddam invaded and he attacked Iran with chemical weapons.
The strength of Islamic Radicalism is directly related to America’s Imperialism.
March 10th, 2006 at 4:07 pmWhere are the trolls to tell us what is wrong with this poll?
March 10th, 2006 at 4:13 pmMandate.
March 10th, 2006 at 4:15 pmAs usual…who in the F#CK are the 30%ers who think otherwise?
I’d absolutely LOVE it if they would break down those that approve by salary/wealth. I’m betting anyone below the “stinkin’ rich†demographic is absent from that “approval†response.
Comment by Punchy
March 10th, 2006 at 4:17 pmDamn Gerald, those people all live in my neighborhood!
March 10th, 2006 at 4:21 pmThe AP story this post links to is pretty appalling too. It sites national poll results and then solicits comments from 5 different republicans (Cole, Brownback, Mehlman, Nelson [a republican consultant/strategist] and Wright [a worried republican voter]). True to form, its only mention of Democrats is to say that they are not getting their message out. Perhaps the poll results would demonstrate the mood of the country better is even one progressive had the opportunity to give their opinion of this criminal administration and its lacky congress. Ask a second progressive and it might become apparent that our message is more cohesive and less divided than the unnamed “strategist in both parties” would have us believe.
March 10th, 2006 at 4:29 pm“Everyone here owes it to themselves to watch Declassified on History channel about Ayatollah Khomeini.” –Congress is Allowing
If you watch ‘History’ Channel documentaries made after 2000, you deserve the headache and the propaganda drool down the front of your shirt.
If you get your history off the tv, wear a sachet of seasoning powder around your neck. The sharks say you taste better that way.
I can’t STAND the excitement of waiting for the announcement that, ta-da, Halliburton/DPW is taking over 21 of our ports.
Bush Must Resign.
March 10th, 2006 at 4:30 pm28% say the government should have the right to control news reports
Comment by Zwack
How scary is that?
March 10th, 2006 at 4:33 pm#4 – That felt like a family reunion, Zwack.
March 10th, 2006 at 4:38 pm*tearing up, sniff*
This confirms that ~30 of americans are clinically insane. The APA says about 1 in 4 americans will have some sort of mental illness during their lifetime, funny how these numbers match up.
March 10th, 2006 at 4:40 pm#11
Hot Karl Rove doesn’t keep the last 30% inline, he just lucky that there are 30% of people who are stupid, ignorant, or just in it for the money.
March 10th, 2006 at 5:09 pmMuch as I would like to claim that it was me, I didn’t come up with that list of things that people will admit to believing…
Bob Harris posted the full list to This Modern World and it scared the heck out of me…
Given that it ranges from
65% couldn’t describe the basic facts about Watergate
down to
3% wanted to see the questions on “Millionaire” become less difficult
and includes the 5% who claim that they are more likely to buy foods labelled as Genetically modified, the 10% who think that women have an advantage in America, and 12% who think that the US needs a royal family like the UK… I worry about a lot of the people out there…
Fortunately the more stupid comments seem to have the fewest adherents…
Z.
March 10th, 2006 at 5:20 pmI think that this comment from Bob Harris on his original posting sums it up…
Z.
March 10th, 2006 at 5:21 pm#28,
Thanks Ryan, I feel all this crap could be boiled down to how people function psychologically. I believe that 50% of Americans have some type of mental disorder. I am a mental health professional and this is my observation out in the world dealing with people. This is why our government has become what it is. Our country is severely lacking in mental health and psychiatric services compared to other developed countries. Our “pride” and stigma attached to mental illness prevents us from acknowledging and treating mental problems, so the mental illness is just perpetuated and passed on to the next generation. This country loves a crisis, loves drama, loves abuse, and denial.
March 10th, 2006 at 5:22 pm4- You left out some good ones:
10% would eat a rat or an insect on a “reality” TV show
20% approve of the how the Catholic Church handles pedophilia
12% think the United States should have a British-style royal family (bet they’re ecstatic right now)
48% say the news media acted responsibly during the Clinton Wars
45% characterized Watergate was “just politics”
40% believe the media was biased in favor of Bill Clinton
And my personal fave:
22 percent think Iraq actually used WMDs during the war.
If PT Barnum were alive today, he’d be president. Or in charge of Faux News.
March 10th, 2006 at 6:46 pm24- It [c]ites national poll results and then solicits comments from 5 different republicans…, its only mention of Democrats is to say that they are not getting their message out.
Oh sh#t!!! I have to clean the monitor off now. You can’t write this type of self-parody, it just writes itself.
March 10th, 2006 at 6:52 pmSix years and NOW they question his character? This proves there is no shortage of stupid people in this country.
March 10th, 2006 at 6:54 pm