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By on Aug 16th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
34 percent:
Bush’s approval rating, according to a new Zogby poll. “President Bush’s job approval rating dipped two points in the last three weeks, despite the foiling of an airline terror plot and the adoption of a cease–fire deal between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon.”
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34% ?-hard-core Nazis.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:24 pmBush had nothing to do with foiling this plot.
Bush only got involved in this because the French would have gotten all of the credit.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:25 pm34% approve of Emperor George. Not as good as an impeachment, trial, and banishment forever from this formerly great nation, but a 34% approval rating shows people are sick and tired of the Bush Cabal.
Finally.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:26 pmMY GOD!
66% of Americans hate America. Quick, ready the missiles. We must invade ourselves.
-GSD
August 16th, 2006 at 5:26 pm“President Bush’s job approval rating dipped two points in the last three weeks, despite the foiling of an airline terror plot and the adoption of a cease–fire deal between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon.â€
1. Bush didn’t foil the terror plot, the Brittish did.
2. France was the one who worked on and pushed the cease fire, while Bush urged Isreal on.
Bush tried to take credit for both and most saw through it. In the mean time, more are dying in Iraq and Bush is still on the “Stay the Course” plan. Of course his approcal rating would drop. I am amazed his numbers are not closer to Cheney’s
August 16th, 2006 at 5:27 pmThe approval rating dropped because these two issues are meaningless to the good half, if not more of, Americans. Remember, Americans have no memory, they don’t remember their is a war on terror, and no terror has directly affected them in 5 years.
Now if gas prices dropped by half, that would get the average American nincompoop to like Bush more.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:32 pmAnd yet on handling terrorism, Bush’s approval rating is in the 50’s. And the 2006 campaign’s main issue will again be terrorism:
Fifty-five percent of Americans approve of President George W. Bush’s handling of homeland security, an 11 percent jump from May, according to a Newsweek poll released on Saturday.
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=13174353&src=rss/domesticNews
August 16th, 2006 at 5:33 pmThe Real Failure and the Al Qaeda Candidates
August 15, 2006
At this very moment the Bush administration is trying to politicize last week Britain’s terror threat by taking credit for its mass arrests and by calling Ned Lemont an Al Qaeda candidate. All this political smokescreen does is shielding the Bush administration from its failures in protecting its citizens, leaving us less safe than five years ago. But Americans are weary of the fear-mongering machine that distracted us from the real danger like the boondoggles Bush made in Iraq and in the war on terror in general. More to the point, further disasters such as 9/11, Katrina and the failures in Afghanistan only demonstrate how Bush and the Republicans broke their promises to protect America. The most costly disaster is Iraq, which is diverting attention and energy in ending this war on terror. Another promise Bush broke was to put Osama bin-Laden’s head on a stick. Osama bin-Laden is still at large, inspiring more recruits while the U.S. in experiencing a vast shortage in recruitment! To add, the Republican Congress hasn’t followed through the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission: we’re still in the dark about the trumped up evidences that got us into Iraq while our nation’s first responders are still under funded. Instead, Bush gave Israel carte blanche to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon, allowing the indiscriminative mass killing of innocent men, women and children on both sides. This war has inflamed the whole Middle East against America even more. Our black eye is blacker than ever. Now who’s is the Al Qaeda candidate? It isn’t Ned Lamont. This coming November elections it’ll be the pro-Bush administration Republicans who are the real Al Qaeda candidates.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:33 pmWell its pretty much been determined that 1/3 of America is completely out of it, the “backwash” in the backwaters of societal development.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:36 pmNice post Armando.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:37 pmOne last parting shot…
Stealing Credit
August 12, 2006
The article “Parties try to gain edge from British arrests†by Adam Nagourney put its best foot forward in a very concise description of the Bush administration’s attempt to exploit Britain’s success in foiling a mass terrorist’s plot. Mr. Nagourney’s main assessment rings loud: the critical question whether the November elections will be fought over the Iraq war which the Republicans will avoid at all cost compare to the war on terror, their only hope to stay in office. But what’s needed to complete this article is how the Bush administration went to great lengths to steal credit from the British arrest. President Bush rave that the incident is a reminder of those who means to destroy those who love freedom and said that America can learn tougher anti-terrorism statutes from the Britons. If only Bush hadn’t turned away from hunting bin-Laden to chase his delusion version of democracy in Iraq. Iraq, says Bush, is a vital theater in the war against terrorism. Only don’t tell him that the war is a bungled occupation that had unleash a wave of jihadists around the world—including in Britian. This administration doesn’t have the right to pat its own shoulder at the expense of others.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:37 pm#8 – Well its pretty much been determined that 1/3 of America is completely out of it, the “backwash†in the backwaters of societal development.
So, are you thinking along the lines of de-evolution? Yes. I could see that happening in the US.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:38 pmThe last 1/3 is usually backwash.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:44 pmSOME PEOPLE NEVER LEARN … +/- 5%
August 16th, 2006 at 5:45 pmLet’s see,
Since Shrub had NOTHING to do with thwarting the British “plot”, or forming a cease fire, his poll numbers shouldn’t have been affected, one way or the other.
Besides, he was gung-ho to keep up the killing, even when Condeleza was suggesting a cease fire.
His numbers are in the sh*tter because:
1. Iraq
2. National Safety
3. War Crimes
4. Constitutional Crimes
He’s quite THE royal screw-up, if there ever was one.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:47 pmYOU CAN FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME … +/- Facts
August 16th, 2006 at 5:48 pmThe only terror bounce Bush is going to get is in November when he bounces off the sofa in terror as he sees the election returns with both houses of Congress swept by Dems.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:51 pmMonkey men all,
August 16th, 2006 at 5:51 pmin business suits,
teachers and critics
all dance the poot
Are we not men ? We are DEVO
Thiirty-four peecent? Boy, that’s just so sad, what with all the yellow alerts and code reds to remind us all of who is keeping us safe here at home.
Or as my grandma used to say, “that’s just tough sh*t, huh?”
August 16th, 2006 at 5:51 pmThe Lieberman Fallout
August 10, 2006
On the article “Lieberman loss echoes throughout politics†by Jeff Zeleny reveals a budding flash of denigration against all Democrats. But I say that Mr. Zeleny lacks further background to complete his article thus his efforts falls short of presenting the true fallout of the Lieberman’s loss in Connecticut. To start with the White House officials and their surrogates have set forth a Rovian campaign to smear Democrats as defeatists and cut-and-runners. For example, Tom DeLay said that liberals won’t “go after these wonderful people (terrorists) that just killed a bunch of Americans.†Bill O’Reilly said that “Iran’s betting we Americans have no will to restrain their jihad.†To Tony Snow, backing Ned Lamont is to “walk away, that Americans were weak and wouldn’t stay the course that led to 9/11.†And last is Dick Cheney who said that to “purge a man like Lieberman†will lead “the al-Qaeda types to break the will of the American people to fight back.†Dick Cheney must be in the throes of senility to say that. Since 9/11 he had harp that all Democrats (including Lieberman) were useless to protect America in the global war on terror.
PS: Where is the shrill of those proud rightwing leviathans now? August 16, 2006
August 16th, 2006 at 5:54 pmBush should have less than 10% rating if this website would not delete this.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:54 pmWhat we know and don’t know about 9/11 by Paul Craig Roberts at http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14566.htm
A lesson of basic knowledge of gravity and resistance.
The only terror bounce Bush is going to get is in November when he bounces off the sofa in terror as he sees the election returns with both houses of Congress swept by Dems.
That’s what the libs were saying in CA-50 too. Busby was supposed to win that race in a landslide and take over Duke Cunningham’s seat. The Democrat lost.
Bush’s approval rating on hadling terrorism is in the 50’s, and that again is going to be the overriding issue in this year’s campaigns.
August 16th, 2006 at 6:07 pmSOME PEOPLE NEVER LEARN … +/- 5%
Comment by . — August 16, 2006 @ 5:45 pm
Yes, 34% of this country’s population (+/- 5%) has yet to learn. How correct you are “.”.
August 16th, 2006 at 6:09 pmHerr Big…
Newsweek Poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. Aug. 10-11, 2006. Nationwide.
“Suppose the elections for U.S. CONGRESS were being held TODAY. Would you vote for the Republican Party’s candidate or the Democratic Party’s candidate for Congress in your district?” If other/unsure: “As of TODAY, do you LEAN more toward the Republican or the Democrat?” Options rotated. N=901 registered voters; MoE ± 4 (for all registered voters).
Republican 39
Democrat 51
Other (vol.)/Unsure 10
See ya in November.
August 16th, 2006 at 6:18 pm#20–You’re high pal, nobody expected a busby landslide in that heavily republican district.
August 16th, 2006 at 6:30 pm“…despite the foiling of an airline terror plot and the adoption of a cease–fire deal between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon.”
Maybe his poll dipped because he had nothing to do with the above?
August 16th, 2006 at 6:50 pmOne other factor may be in play
August 16th, 2006 at 6:56 pmUnlike Bush, most people don’t view the destruction of Lebanon as a good thing.
34%. I bet with poll numbers like that, he won’t run again. Wait….HE CAN’T RUN AGAIN…so who cares what his poll numbers are….get over the guy….he’s got two years (yes TWO, forget your impeachment crap) left…then he’s out of your lives forever…on second thought, 10 years from now one of you will get a parking ticket and somehow, someway, it will be President Bush’s fault! HA!
August 16th, 2006 at 6:56 pmRickD,
Its hard to get over the guy when he is still in office and has 2 years to go, and plenty of opportunities to make things even worse.
August 16th, 2006 at 7:45 pm34% approval is a horrible grade for the amount we pay these corrupt
public servants. That equates well less than 50% just to earn a
midgrade C at 75%
And congress is much worse…. congress gets a 75% mid C for
corrupt.
how can people even stand this complete chop shop operation
that gets well believe a failing grade except for one thing…..
a 34% for a job well done, well below even the worst grade
a “F”, while regarding corruption bush scorews a 64%, a very
passible D, just a couple of more points and this bird could
even get a C, B, or A.
Keep it up Bush, your doing just fine regarding corruption
August 16th, 2006 at 8:11 pmoh and i forgot to mention somebody doesn’t even have to try to score
a F, at 60%, just showing up to class and not even trying scores a C at
75%
the only thing these public servants are scoring not for a well job done
but very passible grades for “corrupt”, that they do just fine.
I believe congress rating is something like 18% approval, that’s 88%
almost an A in there job to totally screw up and become the MOST
corrupt congress EVER
get rid of everyone of those corrupt birds and let’s get some REAL
August 16th, 2006 at 8:17 pmpublic servants who can ACE serving US!!!!!!!!!!!!
Heh! Please tell me you folks aren’t serious in actually trying to cite Zogby as a reputable pollster!:
The Election Is Kerry’s To Lose
By John Zogby
I have made a career of taking bungee jumps in my election calls. Sometimes I haven’t had a helmet and I have gotten a little scratched. But here is my jump for 2004: John Kerry will win the election.
AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
August 16th, 2006 at 8:43 pmthey will great us with flowers.
ahahahahahahaha!
August 16th, 2006 at 8:57 pm34% – Homo Ignoramus
August 16th, 2006 at 9:06 pmexlsy-
What drug are you on? What planet do you live on? You are a classic delusional ignoramus Repug. History won’t be kind to Bush and his cabal. Worst president ever!
August 16th, 2006 at 9:12 pmexlsy-
What drug are you on? What planet do you live in? You are a classic delusional ignoramus Repug. History won’t be kind to Bush and his cabal. Worst president ever!
August 16th, 2006 at 9:12 pmThe president’s popularity is a decent measure of his party’s chances this fall and for the Dems chances in 2008.
I saw a Harris poll that had the approval ratings of the Democrat leaders of congress at only 28%.
Bush’s #’s on handling terrorism are in the solid range of the 50’s. This is what people will vote on when they are alone in the polling place.
And the liberals were way off on CA-50, when they predicted a landslide win for Busby. The polls on that race showing her winning were wrong too.
August 16th, 2006 at 9:15 pmis that the same approval poll that had republicans in the mid teens?
August 16th, 2006 at 9:51 pmIf George Bush is remembered only slightly above Warren Harding, it will be for being such a dramatic failure.
August 16th, 2006 at 10:15 pmKrazny…Nah, Warren Harding didn’t even serve out one term. And he accomplished nothing of true, historical importance in his death-shortened tenure in the presidency. Dubya, on the other hand, has been re-elected and guided this nation through the most difficult time in its history since the Civil War. Harding was a care-taker president. Dubya is a monumental and revered figure in U.S history, standing along with Washington, Polk, Lincoln, FDR, and Reagan.
August 16th, 2006 at 10:20 pmwhat is that sucking sound?
August 16th, 2006 at 10:21 pmLet’s take a good hard look at what groups make up Bush’s 34%. Remember, it is important to note that many of his supporters also happen to have membership that overlaps into other groups. Let’s see here:
Neocons 2%
August 16th, 2006 at 11:55 pmNeo-Nazi(white supremacists) 45%
The American Taliban, Calvinists, Southern Baptists, and Radical Reconstructionists-
–(Religious Right) 40%
Corporate Criminals 5%
Xenophobes 55%
Abortion Clinic Bombers 1%
Turner Diary Readers 15%
LINOs(Libertarians in Name Only) 12%
Cowards 100%
People possessing only an 8th grade education. 65%
Lying Sociopaths 25%
Clueless People 85-90%
Messianic Militarists 40%
Isreal Lobby 35%
Big Oil 2%
#20
That’s what the libs were saying in CA-50 too. Busby was supposed to win that race in a landslide and take over Duke Cunningham’s seat. The Democrat lost.
Bush’s approval rating on hadling terrorism is in the 50’s, and that again is going to be the overriding issue in this year’s campaigns.
Comment by Mr. Big — August 16, 2006 @ 6:07 pm
Wow. You have to go back and retroactively beef up Democratic expectations to make it look like they were all wrong on CA-50. Please find me a quote from just one Democrat who said that Busby was going to “win that race in a landslide.”
That’s the best you can do–spin the hell out of something you’re hoping we don’t recall.
You forgot to cite the polls that showed the Democrats polling higher than Republicans on handling of terrorism. Increasingly, over several months, Iraq has been the top issue. Bush is doing worse on Iraq than he is in general. But, feel free to make terrorism your most important issue. Bush is a miserable failure on that, too. The public is catching on to it.
I don’t think you’re even convincing yourself with your weak arguments.
August 17th, 2006 at 12:15 am#37 Exley
Zogby is a hack partisan shill who tries to make polls fit into the agenda of his brother.
Yeah. Those exit polls are partisan shills, too. Except for all the other times they’ve ever been used and were dead on. Except for the times when they’ve been used to determine election fraud. Except for the time that Colin Powell insisted that the exit polls proved Ukraine’s election was fraudulent. Except for all the places in the world where the election results aren’t determined by the co-chair of the “winner’s” campaign. Except for all those places where a Republican-dominated Supreme Court doesn’t jump in and halt a legal recount which would have ended up in agreement with the exit poll.
Exley, if the Dems take back the House in November, you’ll get to find out how your perceptions got so skewed. It will all become clear. In the meantime, how come your guy in the White House is so unpopular? Why don’t Americans like him anymore? And how come you still do? What do they know that you don’t know? Hmmmmmmmm?
August 17th, 2006 at 12:32 amDubya is a monumental and revered figure in U.S history, standing along with …well nobody since no President has screwed up quite soooo badly..in so many ways…to the detriment of the economy, military security and people. monumental yes..monumentally BAD and revered…yes by those he will have to pardon upon his exit of DC
August 17th, 2006 at 3:03 amBush gives God a bad name.
August 17th, 2006 at 8:54 amBush gives Americda a bad name.
…despite the foiling of an airline terror plot…
By the Brits.
…and the adoption of a cease–fire deal between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon…
Brokered by France.
Of COURSE Bush took a dive in the polls. He’s meaningless and his own party is avoiding him on the campaign trail.
Duh!
August 17th, 2006 at 9:48 am.
With those types of numbers, the Dems should win the next presidency in a landslide. Lets hope they don’t blow it by putting another loser canidate up for election. Mark my words, you put Hilary Clinton on the ticket and you will lose!! You put someone like Obama on the ticket and you will WIN!!!
It is simple actually. You need someone that people actually like. Clinton just won’t work while someone like Obama would win in a landslide.
I beg you not to put someone like Gore or Kerry up again. While both are smart people, they are creepy and come off as people middle america wouldn’t like. Just put a a guy or gal up that has a personality and you win. Simple as that.
August 17th, 2006 at 12:38 pmBrilliant! Thank you for that, Bluedog49.
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