36 percent:
By on Aug 23rd, 2006 at 3:42 pm
36 percent:
Bush’s current approval rating — unchanged from July — according to a new American Research Group poll. Just 32 percent of Americans approve of his handling of the economy.
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Mr. Bush deserves NO approval.
August 23rd, 2006 at 3:47 pmI just saw 42% on TV yesterday. So which is it?
August 23rd, 2006 at 3:53 pm32%, And Bush we telling Republicans to run on the economy this year.
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:00 pm#2 – I just saw 42% on TV yesterday. So which is it?
Check it out: http://www.pollingreport.com/ You’ll be sure to educate yourself by visiting the site.
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:01 pm#3 – I think ReichWingNuts should run on the “war” in Iraq. I’m sure people will let them know, in no uncertain terms, what they feel about Bushy’s little occpation.
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:03 pmI still find it hard to believe 1 in 3 Americans approve of Bushbag.
Either I’m naive, or we really do have that many assholes voting.
I guess the real way to look at it is 2 of 3 Americans want
us out of Iraq & W out of office.
Hey, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:09 pm(Apologies to Meatloaf)
Was British terror plot a load of crap?
Liquid explosives very difficult to make; Orange Alert a political move?
An article posted last Thursday in the British online outlet The Register raises a very good question I haven’t seen posed anywhere else, certainly not in our sycophantic American media: was the exposed British “plot” to bring down commercial airliners by mixing harmless household chemicals in the lavatory even remotely possible from the standpoint of basic chemistry?
To address that question, it’s worth quoting from The Register’s article:
“We’re told that the suspects were planning to use TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, a high explosive that supposedly can be made from common household chemicals unlikely to be caught by airport screeners. A little hair dye, drain cleaner, and paint thinner — all easily concealed in drinks bottles — and the forces of evil have effectively smuggled a deadly bomb onboard your plane. … Making a quantity of TATP sufficient to bring down an airplane is not quite as simple as ducking into the toilet and mixing two harmless liquids together.
First, you’ve got to get adequately concentrated hydrogen peroxide. This is hard to come by, so a large quantity of the three per cent solution sold in pharmacies might have to be concentrated by boiling off the water. Only this is risky, and can lead to mission failure by means of burning down your makeshift lab before a single infidel has been harmed.
But let’s assume that you can obtain it in the required concentration, or cook it from a dilute solution without ruining your operation. Fine. The remaining ingredients, acetone and sulfuric acid, are far easier to obtain, and we can assume that you’ve got them on hand.
Now for the fun part. Take your hydrogen peroxide, acetone, and sulfuric acid, measure them very carefully, and put them into drinks bottles for convenient smuggling onto a plane. It’s all right to mix the peroxide and acetone in one container, so long as it remains cool. Don’t forget to bring several frozen gel-packs (preferably in a Styrofoam chiller deceptively marked “perishable foods”), a thermometer, a large beaker, a stirring rod, and a medicine dropper. You’re going to need them.
It’s best to fly first class and order Champagne. The bucket full of ice water, which the airline ought to supply, might possibly be adequate — especially if you have those cold gel-packs handy to supplement the ice, and the Styrofoam chiller handy for insulation — to get you through the cookery without starting a fire in the lavvie.
Once the plane is over the ocean, very discreetly bring all of your gear into the toilet. You might need to make several trips to avoid drawing attention. Once your kit is in place, put a beaker containing the peroxide/acetone mixture into the ice water bath (Champagne bucket), and start adding the acid, drop by drop, while stirring constantly. Watch the reaction temperature carefully. The mixture will heat, and if it gets too hot, you’ll end up with a weak explosive. In fact, if it gets really hot, you’ll get a premature explosion possibly sufficient to kill you, but probably no one else.
After a few hours — assuming, by some miracle, that the fumes haven’t overcome you or alerted passengers or the flight crew to your activities — you’ll have a quantity of TATP with which to carry out your mission. Now all you need to do is dry it for an hour or two.
The genius of this scheme is that TATP is relatively easy to detonate. But you must make enough of it to crash the plane, and you must make it with care to assure potency. One needs quality stuff to commit “mass murder on an unimaginable scale,” as Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson put it. While it’s true that a slapdash concoction will explode, it’s unlikely to do more than blow out a few windows. At best, an infidel or two might be killed by the blast, and one or two others by flying debris as the cabin suddenly depressurizes, but that’s about all you’re likely to manage under the most favorable conditions possible.”
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:11 pmZzzzzz.
Bush could strip naked, kill a 5-year old blonde-haired girl in a wheelchair, and eat her flesh live on primetime national television and he would drop no lower than 30%. The next day, FOX News and the Washington Times would sell the story as “Bush Bravely Kills Potential Terrorist!”
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:17 pmCNN poll has Bush at 42%, so is TP cherry picking the data again? Moreover, the poll shows Republicans favored on terrorism, and since Hezbollah, and soon the anniversary of 9/11 will fill the headlines, that issue will be prominent on voters minds.
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:18 pmAugust 21, 2006
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:19 pmJournalist : What did Iraq have to do with the WTC?
Bush: “Nothing”
36 Percent?
To Bush that constitutes a mandate.
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:19 pm. . . and 9-11 will remind folks that Osama bin Laden and not Saddam Hussein killed Americans on US soils and he’s free to roam about while Hussein is on trial for using the gas Ronald Reagan sold him. Will Rumsfeld be called as a witness for Hussein’s defense?
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:23 pmRecall that is was then-President Reagan who authorized Rumsfeld to supply an Iraqi madman with WMD and pose for a shake hands photo-op.
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:25 pmAh yes, Bush-bots to the rescue!
-GSD
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:35 pmIf you aren’t fighting the terrorists, then you are helping them
Comment by Jason M. Hendler
President Bush, today:
Today, I’m announcing that America will send more aid to support humanitarian and reconstruction work in Lebanon, for a total of more than $230 million.
Question: Why does Jason hate America and this administration?
Comment by DRxJ
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:38 pmSlappy Hendler says:
soon the anniversary of 9/11 will fill the headlines, that issue will be prominent on voters minds.
Sad that a 30% chunk of Americans spend all of their time giving credit to Al Qaeda for changing America. You know, when you focus on the bombs and the explosions, that is just what Al Qaeda wants! That is what Bush says about Iraq.
But it is a different tune when the Bush/Coulter Republican Party wants to spend so much efforts on America’s greatest strategic failures.
Bill Clinton wrapped up the Oklahoma City bombers and now they are jailed or dead. What about the 9/11 plotters?
BCR’s(Bush/Coulter Republicans) Hooray for more terror threats, that will show the nation how dangerous the world is and then they will vote for US! Hooray for more threats and fears.
Frigging pathetic.
-GSD
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:39 pm#10
You are not listening very well. It must be your exteme hatred for Bush that is getting in the way. Bush never said that Iraq and 9/11 were connected, but there is concrete evidence that Al Qaeda had ties to Iraq long before we took out Saddam. Bush did say that we would go after those responsible for 9/11 and any country harboring terrorists. Now, I still think that means that we’ll pursue Iran and North Korea and others if diplomacy doesn’t work. I’ll bet you believe that Saddam was just a nice guy trying to mind his own business before Bush attacked him don’t you?
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:40 pm“Today, I’m announcing that America will send more aid to support humanitarian and reconstruction work in Lebanon, for a total of more than $230 million.”
My God, Bush is outsourcing our tax dollars to HEZBOLLAH! What a traitor.
-GSD
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:40 pm#16
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:45 pmI’m tired of liberals trying to compare Oklahoma City to 9/11. Tell me O’smart one, what was McViegh’s reason for the bombing? I think you’ll find he was upset with something that happened the year before at Waco, which happened under whose presidency and by whose choice for AG?
Aaaaawwwww GSD & Decider ….
You too are sensing opportunity slipping yet again through the Democratic Party’s fingers. Fox News reported that for every 10 children Dems have, Reps have 14, so every year that ticks by puts you farther and farther from the mainstream, as Reps simply out breed you. This means that all the little tricks you play trying to game the system have less and less effect. Eventually, you will have to change your positions to serve the majority of voters, or watch as Reps coast to victory year after year.
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:56 pmAmerica participates in both the destruction (arms supplies to Israel) and the reconstruction (sending aid) of Lebanon. I have to wonder, how much of our money will go directly to Hezbollah?
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:56 pmQuoth Osama: “I’m still free, how about you?” (think of this quote next time you stand in line at the airport security checkpoints for an hour or two before finally boarding your plane).
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:58 pm#18
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:58 pmWell, that made no sense what -so -ever.
Again, why does Jason M Hendler hate America?
Republicans having more children than Democrats will raise Bush’s approval rating and make his failed Iraq policies successful? Should the Republicans stay in power, how many of these “Republican children” will be willing to fight and die in Bush’s never ending war in Iraq?
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:01 pm#17 – I think Hezbollah should be allowed to bid on New Orleans reconstruction.
#12 – that kind of talk will get you banned from Redstate.com
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:03 pm#22, Pampers,
Don’t worry, no sane person would ever bother asking a liberal to defend their country, so you can stay safe in your flip-flops and bermuda shorts.
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:05 pm12#
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:07 pmThe US also provided satellite photographs and battlefield intelligence to Iraq which it knew was to be used in “calibrating” Iraqi chemical weapons attacks against Iran. Furthermore, the US provided dual use helicopters, ostensibly for crop spraying, which intelligence sources believe were used to deploy the chemical weapons in Halabja
#12 – so if Iran and Syria are complicit in attacking Israel by giving Hezbollah weapons, the US is what exactly for supplying chemistry sets to Saddam in the 80s? Discuss.
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:07 pmDon’t worry, no sane person would ever bother asking a liberal to defend their country, so you can stay safe in your flip-flops and bermuda shorts.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler
…and this from someone who NEVER SERVED!!!
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:09 pm#24 sure, FDR and Harry Truman did such a pisspoor job. should have let prescott bush, henry ford and chuck lindbergh defend amurka. put your idiot strawman where it would take an abu ghraib guard to find it.
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:10 pm#26 – nerve gas does’nt kill people, people kill people
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:12 pm#9 – last five polls on pollingreport.com average 38.6 approval and 55.8 disapproval.
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:16 pmthat’s not cherry picking, just averaging.
PFC J. M. Hendler – . Sounds good!
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:18 pmPut your enlistment signature where your keyboard is, chickenweasel!
#31 – you can pry my satellite image guided, dual-purpose Sikorsky helicopter from my cold dead hands…
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:24 pmJayson,
How do you know all of the offspring of Republicans will indeed decide to be a Republican? Reality does have a liberal bias.
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:24 pmBush did say that we would go after those responsible for 9/11 and any country harboring terrorists. Now, I still think that means that we’ll pursue Iran and North Korea and others if diplomacy doesn’t work.
Comment by Randy — August 23, 2006 @ 4:40 pm
If you would be so kind, remind me again which terrorists North Korea is harboring? I honestly forget.
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:25 pmJason go serve your country by enlisting, seems to be the right thing to do.
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:26 pmBush should start a tire company…
Flats ‘R’ Us.
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:27 pm#36, Wayne,
North Korea actively engages in counterfeiting American currency, which they use to buy weapons and undermine the US economy – call it economic terrorism.
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:27 pm#36 watch out Miami, all those hotel bombs in Havana are going to catch up with you.
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:28 pmGame. Set. Match. Jason!!
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:30 pmPut your money where your mouth is! The enlistment age is now 40 and younger (that would be your age group). Go serve, protect our country from them terrorists over there in Iraq, debate Global Warming with you seargent, read a good Michael Chrichton book under the stars of Bagdad, debate Ivy league schools with fellow soldiers….but by all means…GO
#39 Comment by Jason M. Hendler — August 23, 2006 @ 5:27 pm
No, I won’t. I will call it “counterfeiting” and “a crime”, but I won’t call it “economic terrorism.” So what you’re telling me is that North Korea is not harboring any terrorists.
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:33 pm#41 – cue the ‘i am serving my president right here on thinkprogress’ line from our fearless jason…
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:33 pmNorth Korea actively engages in counterfeiting American currency, which they use to buy weapons and undermine the US economy – call it economic terrorism.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler
==
No it doesn’t, America is one of, if not the, largest arms manufacturers and sellers.
Besides, it’s just monopoly money, George can print all he wants. =)
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:44 pmTell me O’smart one, what was McViegh’s reason for the bombing? I think you’ll find he was upset with something that happened the year before at Waco, which happened under whose presidency and by whose choice for AG?
Comment by Randy
McVeigh was quoting Republican criticisms of Clinton chapter and verse. So one could say the Republicans are the Tim McVeigh party?
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:52 pmBush did say that we would go after those responsible for 9/11 and any country harboring terrorists. Now, I still think that means that we’ll pursue Iran and North Korea and others if diplomacy doesn’t work.
Comment by Randy
Actually that would mean Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, before even Iraq.
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:54 pmTell me O’smart one, what was McViegh’s reason for the bombing? I think you’ll find he was upset with something that happened the year before at Waco, which happened under whose presidency and by whose choice for AG?
Comment by Randy
Why should it matter to you “under whose presidency and by whose choice for AG” this happened? You’re a conservative, so you believe in individual responsibility. Right? Timothy McVeigh was responsible for his own actions, not anyone else.
August 23rd, 2006 at 6:13 pm#45 – McVeigh was quoting Republican criticisms of Clinton chapter and verse. So one could say the Republicans are the Tim McVeigh party?
Further, knowing how the ReichWing LOVES to play the religion card, what of McVeigh’s own religion? Since is was a confirmed terrorist, shouldn’t we submit all Christians to the same kinds of security that the WingNuts are proposing for Muslims?
Why did Jesus hate America? Why did he allow Tim McVeigh to bomb OK?
August 23rd, 2006 at 6:18 pm36%? So you the Dems should win ALL races come November, right? If they don’t at least win 64% then it should be called a disaster. BTW how are those 2006 races shaping up lately? Are the Democrats polling at 64% (against the Presidents 36%)? LOL Sure they are.
August 23rd, 2006 at 6:37 pm#49, RRS,
Dems feel the opportunities slipping away:
Global warming – no traction
Katrina – no traction
Meanwhile, Bush’s numbers are rising in the polls, thanks to Jon Benet Ramsey!
August 23rd, 2006 at 6:54 pmI heard that Bush’s number was up (not down) and I have yet to see a poll where a sitting Republican is trailing a Democratic challenger by any significant number. Even in Tom Delay’s District it’s looking more likely that a Republican write-in will win, despite the Dems attempts to keep everyone out of the race except Democrats. I guess those are the only races they can win, but maybe not (see Lieberman). It’s a long time until November and the Democrats have lots of opportunities to shot themselves in the foot a few more times. Maybe a hardy Dean Scream will rally the voter to the Democrat’s cause.
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:07 pmhow do you have a write candidate on electronic voting machines?
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:15 pmall morning – no trolls – must have been an extra long meeting with their master.
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:30 pmNo thoughtful Democrat is anywhere near doing a touchdown dance though, because we know how they cheat.
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:36 pmWaPo
even the washingtonpost sends the msg republicans are screwed
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:37 pmAugust 23rd, 2006 at 7:39 pm
Yeah I have seem some higher poll numbers too, it’s a little confusing, but hey, I hate Bush so gimme a 36%.
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:36 pmMeanwhile, Bush’s numbers are rising in the polls, thanks to Jon Benet Ramsey!
Comment by Jason M. Handlover — August 23, 2006 @ 6:54 pm
I see you are going for the 41% report. I’m still with 36%.
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:38 pm“I have yet to see a poll where a sitting Republican is trailing a Democratic challenger by any significant number.”
Ok, your absolute lack of Googling skills is very disturbing.
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:58 pmif you belive the polls you are a moron. but then again liberals are morons
August 24th, 2006 at 9:58 amif you belive the polls you are a moron. but then again liberals are morons
Comment by reddog rules
August 24th, 2006 at 12:41 pm—————
Thank you for that reasoned and fair-minded comment.
Well, I’m a liberal and I don’t believe polls, especially opinion polls. But right-wing authoritarian types, who tend to be conservative, believe them. They believe them because someone in charge told them they were accurate.
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