President Bush’s approval rating, a record low, in a new American Research Group poll. His approval is 33 percent in a new Rasmussen poll, another record low.
If they would just quit polling the insane asylums and homes for the demntia and alzheimer patients, as well as the homes for those whose mental incapacity make them incapable of independent living, I am certain those numbers would drop to the mid-twenties, or lower.
Huh? David Broder, the “Dean” of the Washington press corp just told us a few weeks ago that Bush was on the rebound and coming back. Maybe it’s time for a new “dean.” Hell, maybe it’s time for an entirely new press corp. This one is broken.
Comptroller, apples have a different approval rating than oranges. So what. A thoughtful person (and that person is clearly not you) would compare ratings of presidents.
You mean his approval rating are this high? In Seattle he is at least in the low teens, or maybe even single digits.
Why do repukians love their losers?
The congressional approval rating for the dem controlled 110th congress is above the approval rating for the repub controlled 109th congress. what does that tell you?
Mr. Resident Tush, sir?
Your coloring books just came.
You unexpectedly have an open schedule till next week Thursday, due to cancellations of your commencement appearances.
Shall I order another set of the Moron Explorer series for you?
Sir?
Sir?
The congressional poll, while a legit number, takes into account the whole of congress, not just the leadership. Which is what you are obviously angling at. With 70 percent of the country wanting the war ended, and with Republicans in Congress locking step with the Pres on ending it, it’s no wonder that their number low.
Uh, that didn’t make any sense, only stated for your own convenience, not universally. So….you stating that the approval rating for the 110th congress should be every way unrelated to the President (who is supposed to report to congress)? This site was calling out the approval rating of the 109th Congress, weren’t they? I’m not going to forget.
You can be a partisan hack, but don’t convince yourself that people don’t have a right to call you out on it. It doesn’t make them “unthoughtful.”
Isn’t everything these days a “record high†or a “record low�
Pretty much. Record high deficits. Record low approval. Record high debt. Record low ethics. Record high death. Record low international support. Record high gas prices. Record low presidential IQ.
Congress’ approval rating isn’t much higher, either, if I am not mistaken.
Perhaps, but that neither excuses nor alleviates the dismal performance of GWB.
As far as I remember, Clinton ended his Presidency with the highest approval rating of any President ever and that was after he was hit by all the flak. Just though I’d let you Republican’s realise the attempts to compare Clinton and Bush’s approval ratings are redundant
That’s your interpretation on it. Congress came to an agreement on and sent President Bush an Iraq war bill containing restrictions, yet Congress’ approval rating is still low. I wonder why?
Congress came to an agreement on and sent President Bush an Iraq war bill containing restrictions, yet Congress’ approval rating is still low. I wonder why?
(a) read my previous post – they are trending higher since the election
(b) they’d go off the charts if Congress would actually exhibit some huevos and vigorously pursue the will of the majority
You wonder why? I’ll tell you why, because they wont send the bill back as it was. Because the republicans wont sign on to it. Because both the Rahm Emmanuell’s group of dems (The DLC) and nearly all the Repubs, are captured by the defense contractors who line their campaign coffers.
Um, most of us here are among the majority who are ‘against’ this president, but I wish you all at TP would just take any new survey out and claim it’s a ‘new low’.
Polls, how I love them. Polls told me what to do. I have no right and wrong meter, just a poll meter. I was and am a fair weather fan when it comes to polls. Polls, polls, and more polls.
why do the right thing when polls make it easy for you and you do the poll thing, right?
anyway, I wouldn’t be talking about low approval ratings for our Prez. I just got off the phone with Pelosi and Reid, they are aware that it took them 5 months to achieve what it took the President 7 years and the Republican led Congress 12 years to achieve. Approval ratings in the low 30s and high 20s.
I always tell my Democratic friends, don’t throw rocks when your house is also made out of glass.
My friends, take my advice. I am, wait, I was the President and the smartest one to set foot on the Oval Office.
Um, most of us here are among the majority who are ‘against’ this president, but I wish you all at TP would just take any new survey out and claim it’s a ‘new low’.
It’s really sloppy, and misleading. It’s also completely unnecessary.
Comment by Namtillaku — May 22, 2007 @ 12:54 pm
I agree with you, it’s very misleading. But in fairness to TP, they are claiming new lows in specific polls. Ideally, they would provide all current poll results in the article but I suppose that wouldn’t be as fantastic.
Every time there is a new record low reported in one poll or another, at least a few people wonder why it’s a record low when he was at 29% last week.
Please try to keep in mind that there are several dozen recognized national opinion polls, and these record lows that keep piling up are specific to those polls. For instance Rasmussen has consistently had among the highest approval ratings for the President compared to other polls. A rating of 33% from them is not only a record low, it would be damn near 25%-territory for some other methodologies.
PS I’d like to congratulate TPers for largely ignoring the familiar irrelevant trolls at last. Excellent work.
If by joke you mean reporting the facts, yeah they’re a real joke. This site has a left-humanist bent, but the facts speak for themselves. You go ahead and cling to your authoritarian personality, riddled with superstition, TP and myself are happier with the facts.
I am not really President Clinton; I am really just a stonewalling, obstructionist Republican plant who gets his jollies and a modest paycheck from typing inane thoughts on TP threads. Sometimes I call myself “President Clinton” when I’m feeling witty, sometimes I call myself something else (you’ll have to guess). But always my aim is to disrupt, distract and dissemble. And you pathetic libs fall for it every time.
I agree with you, it’s very misleading. But in fairness to TP, they are claiming new lows in specific polls. Ideally, they would provide all current poll results in the article but I suppose that wouldn’t be as fantastic.
Comment by erock — May 22, 2007 @ 1:01 pm
It doesn’t matter, TP’s headline up there is 31 Percent, then it goes on to talk about a new low approval rating. The headline is what’s misleading, it’s not a new low – I don’t care who’s poll the number came from, it smacks of chicken little, and it diminishes everything else TP has to say.
Namtillaku, you’re right. It doesn’t matter that they clarify it later, it looks like this site is trying hard as it can to be the National Enquirer of blogs. No need for the sensationalism.
My man, BJ, I am lucky if I see a naked woman. I tell you, I had everything during the Presidency. and I said it, I did it because I could, because I was drunk with power. ahhhhhh power, power, power!
but don’t get me started with the BJs. Hillary thinks it demeans women!
yet she has me down her skirt all day long!
I tell you this 21st century women, such evil creatures. I liked them more in the 1990s and I liked Hillary more when she knew she had to play nice because without me, she would be a nobody!
I am not really President Clinton; I am really just a stonewalling, obstructionist Republican plant who gets his jollies and a modest paycheck from typing inane thoughts on TP threads. Sometimes I call myself “President Clinton†when I’m feeling witty, sometimes I call myself something else (you’ll have to guess). But always my aim is to disrupt, distract and dissemble. And you pathetic libs fall for it every time.
Comment by President Clinton — May 22, 2007 @ 1:06 pm
Do the American people not know that impersonating me is a Federal Crime?
I made this law right before I left the Oval Office.
STOP IT, or I will go Chinese embassy in Serbia on you.
I’m sure you can still cruise the babes at any time you want to. You are still loved all over the world man. Just remember what the Dr. said about your ticker.
If he is so unpopular why can’t the Democrats pass their surrender bill with enough votes to override a veto?
Okay, you can all argue over who the dumbest troll is, but Patrick has to take “King of the Non Sequiturs” hands down.
Yeah, Patrick, if Bush is so unpopular, why does he have his own airplane? If Bush is so unpopular, how come gas is up to $3.20 a gallon? If Bush is so unpopular, then why is asparagus green?
This is what I’ve been saying for years. Right-wingers do not understand the relationship between cause and effect. Not that it’s rocket science. It’s just a part of their brains that doesn’t work.
President Bush is set this week to secure a major victory when the Democratic controlled Congress completes work on the Iraq War Supplemental.
“Make no mistake, this is a complete and total sellout of the base by the Democrats.â€Democratic leaders in the House are now admitting that they will have to send the president a supplemental appropriations bill that will fully fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of the fiscal year without any of the mandatory conditions they once insisted upon.
Guess the moonbats should be thankful he is so unpopular.
I wish I had a REAL life — you know, like a girlfriend and a really cool job delivering pizzas or something that would get me out of my mom’s basement once in a while. Maybe then I wouldn’t be driven to pretend I was someone else that people really liked.
Still, it’s fun to pretend that I’m smart and powerful and chicks dig me. That and Playstation get me through the day. Oh and Cheetos too. Don’t forget the Cheetos.
Um, most of us here are among the majority who are ‘against’ this president, but I wish you all at TP would just take any new survey out and claim it’s a ‘new low’.
The one that really stands out is the Rasmussen poll. It’s a right-leaning polling organization and their numbers for Bush are always higher than most other polls. For him to hit 33% in the Rasmussen poll is a record low for them and it’s pretty astounding. On top of that, they poll every day and show a three day running average. Bush has been at 35% or lower for six straight days. They think it’s because of his position on immigration reform. Now he’s even starting to lose the staunch righties.
I had very high polling numbers throughout my terms in office. Even after it was revealed that I lied to the american people on TV by telling them “we never negotiate with terrorists,” though we began shipping them weapons scant months after my taking office. Go figure…
I just want you to know that I will continue to truly sully the office that you had. You’ve got nothing on me Billy Boy. Take a look at my accomplishments
I outed a covert CIA operative for nothing more than political gain.
I signed the most fiscally reckless tax deferment in history.
I signed off on 48 percent worth of increased discretionary funding. FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY is something you Democrats know nothing about.
I lied to the American People about stuff that affects them. WMD, Iraq and al Qaeda being in league etc…
I’ve seen huge increases in poverty, and increases in the number of people without health care coverage. Nothing better than knowing my desire to do nothing about the private insurance industry in this country has lead to millions of children not being able to see a doctor!!
My daughters at least know how to party!!
I’ve stacked the DOJ with partisan hacks that respond only the needs of Republicans. This way we can insure continued success at the polls.
I’ve put right-wing activist judges on the Supreme Court that love fetuses and hate children!!
I love to hire people who graduate from second schools ran by religious whackos that think Americans are to blame for 9-11.
I have been giving billions of dollars to religious institutions in defiance of the 1st Amendment.
I wire tapped every American I could without according them the due process they are constitutionally given.
I decided against caring about the general welfare on New Orleans residents after that squall they suffered through.
I hired a horse owner to run FEMA.
I have used the signing statement so abusively, that I I’m not even sure what I laws I have to follow anymore, so I don’t worry about law anymore.
I decry the New York Times for running stories on classified programs, but the I turn around and declassify stuff like that all the time when it helps me politically.
I labeled an American Citizen an enemy combatant and completely stripped him of his Constitutional freedoms and rights. Then we tortured the hell out of him for three years before my buddies in the Supreme Court told me I would lose if I tried to keep as an enemy combatant any longer.
I blamed the systemic problems at Abu Grhaib on a couple of low level privates, and the country bought it.
I appointed an attorney general that was woefully unqualified, and who probably can’t recall his own name.
I created whole new levels of bureaucracy for our government to fund. Because I know you Dems love big government. I did it for you.
I said nothing while a group of partisan hacks lied about John Kerry’s courageous service in Vietnam. As a result of the heat he was taking, we never had to bring up the fact that no one knows why I was AWOL during my stint with the Guard.
I could go on, by I need one of those wonder bread cheese sammiches. My blood sugar is kinda low.
HEY CONDI, back that thing back in here girl and bring me a sammich!!!
President Bush and the Republican Leadership deserve full credit for this defeat of the Democrats’ signature policy initiative. The president’s May 1st veto of the Democrats’ original supplemental, the leadership’s refusal to back down to Democrat and media pressure on the override vote, and the Administration’s steadfast refusal to accept restrictions or timelines have won the day. Cracks in the Democrats’ armor have been exposed and their members are taking notice.
National Journal (sub. req.), in its Congress Daily feature, has the details on rumblings in the Democratic caucus about Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership thus far.
â€There simply is no direction,†said the spokesman for one mid-level Democratic member closely tied to leadership. “Press is an afterthought on our side, and it shows.†[...]
“You look at the Republican apparatus and it is like they’re playing chess and we’re playing checkers,” the first-term lawmaker said. [...]
“It is going to take time to figure out, but at the end of the day there has to be stronger leadership and some more-aggressive message defense,” said one former senior House Democratic communications professional who now heads press operations for a prominent party-affiliated group. “It is a problem for every Democrat in Congress if they don’t realize the Republicans are going to turn Pelosi into radioactive material before the 2008 election and try and use that to win the House back.”
So what! What is important is if the Democrats actually take advantage of all the criminal activity being exposed and do something about it. They are afraid of 2008 and possibly not keeping control of Congress and not winning the White House. When will a person with principles and morals, either a presidential candidate or a member of Congress, start demanding more accountability?
I am not really President Clinton; I am really just a stonewalling, obstructionist Republican plant who gets his jollies and a modest paycheck from typing inane thoughts on TP threads. Sometimes I call myself “President Clinton†when I’m feeling witty, sometimes I call myself something else (you’ll have to guess). But always my aim is to disrupt, distract and dissemble. And you pathetic libs fall for it every time.
Comment by President Clinton
Sure now that I warned you about electroshock therapy your acting like you don’t believe you’re Clinton. Well maybe your not THAT crazy but your still a stupid loon.
I know I said that I was President Clinton, but that was only to hide my REAL identity. I’m actually Napoleon, but I figured no one would believe me except for the faith-based conservatives and THEY would hate me because I’m French.
Hey Ronnie, good to see you old man. Just keep your mouth shut until I tell you what to say. You know, just like your entire presidency. In fact, I’ve been in charge since I framed Oswald in the JFK assassination. Except when that Bill Clinton was in office. He was hard to control. Of course people still believe all the lies I spread about Carter so guess I am omnipotent. After all, my idiot son is on his second term, I must know how this fascism works.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H. L. Mencken
HEY CONDI, back that thing back in here girl and bring me a sammich!!!
Comment by President Bush — May 22, 2007 @ 1:42 pm
JUNIOR, how many times have I told you to keep your big stupid mouth SHUT. Your not supposed to tell the people all the shit I’ve pulled and let you get away with. I’ll deal with you when your mother and I get there later. She’ll probably want to water board you again.
I am not really President Clinton; I am really just a stonewalling, obstructionist Republican plant who gets his jollies and a modest paycheck from typing inane thoughts on TP threads. Sometimes I call myself “President Clinton†when I’m feeling witty, sometimes I call myself something else (you’ll have to guess). But always my aim is to disrupt, distract and dissemble. And you pathetic libs fall for it every time.
Comment by President Clinton
Nobody is falling for it. If you think anyone is, you’re the pathetic loser. Do you think there aren’t people here baiting people like you to show your pathetic Republican, right-wing, fascist, extremist views. It just keeps the discussion going.
Comment by President Clinton — May 22, 2007 @ 1:00 pm
Because this site is telling people the truth about what’s going on in the world and that worries you. If the average person read this site and knew how corrupt this administration was they would be up in arms.
So, you come here and do everything you can to degrade it and insult it. Unfortunately, it’s not working.
I’m finding it hard to believe that 31 out of every 100 citizens of this fine country are stupid/crazy/mean-spirited/delusional (choose as many as you like and feel free to add more) enough to STILL think the freakin’ bat-shit crazy little monster is still doing a good job.
Good thing I don’t read polls. Shoot, I don’t read anything!!
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:24 pmStick with him, Jake. Stick with him. All the way to the loser end.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:24 pmIf they would just quit polling the insane asylums and homes for the demntia and alzheimer patients, as well as the homes for those whose mental incapacity make them incapable of independent living, I am certain those numbers would drop to the mid-twenties, or lower.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:26 pm… but but but…. CLINTON!!!!!
(troll poop)
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:27 pmIsn’t everything these days a “record high” or a “record low”?
Congress’ approval rating isn’t much higher, either, if I am not mistaken.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:28 pmClinton had poll numbers too.
We govern by our guts, not polls.
This is all a partisan witch hunt/show trial (choose one).
Did I mention Clinton?
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:28 pmHuh? David Broder, the “Dean” of the Washington press corp just told us a few weeks ago that Bush was on the rebound and coming back. Maybe it’s time for a new “dean.” Hell, maybe it’s time for an entirely new press corp. This one is broken.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:28 pmComptroller, apples have a different approval rating than oranges. So what. A thoughtful person (and that person is clearly not you) would compare ratings of presidents.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:30 pmYou mean his approval rating are this high? In Seattle he is at least in the low teens, or maybe even single digits.
Why do repukians love their losers?
Hating the Repukian Mafia daily
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:31 pmSo much for re-election. How is Congress doing?
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:31 pmAnytime now we will hear that this is certainly bad news for the Democrats.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:31 pmBush doing the Limbo, seeing ‘how low he can go’.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:32 pmThe congressional approval rating for the dem controlled 110th congress is above the approval rating for the repub controlled 109th congress. what does that tell you?
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:33 pmStill that turdy percent. Nuthin new really.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:34 pmMr. Resident Tush, sir?
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:34 pmYour coloring books just came.
You unexpectedly have an open schedule till next week Thursday, due to cancellations of your commencement appearances.
Shall I order another set of the Moron Explorer series for you?
Sir?
Sir?
RoboTroll3000, Yes, you mentioned Clinton but you forgot to mention Carter and Pelosi! I like your posts.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:35 pmThis is bad news for Democrats.
(Thanks, Ba’al — I missed that one.)
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:35 pmCompTROLLER V-1,
The congressional poll, while a legit number, takes into account the whole of congress, not just the leadership. Which is what you are obviously angling at. With 70 percent of the country wanting the war ended, and with Republicans in Congress locking step with the Pres on ending it, it’s no wonder that their number low.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:35 pmIt doesnt matter if Bush hits zero approval rating. Nothing will change. Sad.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:36 pmYanno, these Bush polls that TP lists are positively Tom Friedmanesque.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:36 pmthis is about the 200th time i’ve heard “down to 31%”
the MSM keeps saying his approval rating keeps going down, but the # is always the same.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:36 pmBush’s approval ratings are lower than KKKarl’s ethics.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:36 pmWho are these people? I’ll tell you who these people are — rent the DVD called “Jesus Camp.” That’s who these people are.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:38 pmComment by Bluedog49
Uh, that didn’t make any sense, only stated for your own convenience, not universally. So….you stating that the approval rating for the 110th congress should be every way unrelated to the President (who is supposed to report to congress)? This site was calling out the approval rating of the 109th Congress, weren’t they? I’m not going to forget.
You can be a partisan hack, but don’t convince yourself that people don’t have a right to call you out on it. It doesn’t make them “unthoughtful.”
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:38 pmWho are these 31 percent and have they been sterilized?
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:39 pmIsn’t everything these days a “record high†or a “record low�
Pretty much. Record high deficits. Record low approval. Record high debt. Record low ethics. Record high death. Record low international support. Record high gas prices. Record low presidential IQ.
Congress’ approval rating isn’t much higher, either, if I am not mistaken.
Perhaps, but that neither excuses nor alleviates the dismal performance of GWB.
Some perspective:
Congressional Approval – bad, but at least going the right direction
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:39 pmGWB Approval – bad and getting worse
GWB versus History – pretty bleak
As far as I remember, Clinton ended his Presidency with the highest approval rating of any President ever and that was after he was hit by all the flak. Just though I’d let you Republican’s realise the attempts to compare Clinton and Bush’s approval ratings are redundant
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:39 pmUpdate:
Carter also had approval ratings. So does Pelosi. What does it mean?
Thanks to all those who support the efforts of RoboTroll 3000.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:39 pmComment by Crump’s Brother
That’s your interpretation on it. Congress came to an agreement on and sent President Bush an Iraq war bill containing restrictions, yet Congress’ approval rating is still low. I wonder why?
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:41 pmThey must be still polling that same trailer park in Kentucky.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:42 pmI saw a bumper sticker which said “We vote pro-life”.
It was hard not to yell something at them at the stop light. Like “You vote pro-life even if it was agianst all of your other best interests?”
It’s really “pro-birth” anyway.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:45 pmYou think the chymp will put down his well worn edition of
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:46 pm“Presidenting for Idiots” long enough to read this poll?
I wonder if Jake-Obin has approval ratings?
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:46 pmCongress came to an agreement on and sent President Bush an Iraq war bill containing restrictions, yet Congress’ approval rating is still low. I wonder why?
(a) read my previous post – they are trending higher since the election
(b) they’d go off the charts if Congress would actually exhibit some huevos and vigorously pursue the will of the majority
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:46 pmFT – Perhaps something like “Then why did you vote for the Pro Death President?”
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:47 pmCompTROLLER V-1,
You wonder why? I’ll tell you why, because they wont send the bill back as it was. Because the republicans wont sign on to it. Because both the Rahm Emmanuell’s group of dems (The DLC) and nearly all the Repubs, are captured by the defense contractors who line their campaign coffers.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:47 pmIt’s really “pro-birth†anyway.
Comment by ForTruth
They’re the same people who gather outside the prison before an execution — with their frying pans and rope nooses.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:48 pmLast week it was 28%, so it seems to fluctuate around 30% rock hard for Bush even if he had sex with Jeff Gannon on the White House lawn.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:48 pmSoon he’ll be at Truman levels.
What honorable company to have.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:49 pmIf he is so unpopular why can’t the Democrats pass their surrender bill with enough votes to override a veto?
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:49 pmPatrick1,
Because congressional Republicans seem intent on burying themselves with him.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:53 pmUm, most of us here are among the majority who are ‘against’ this president, but I wish you all at TP would just take any new survey out and claim it’s a ‘new low’.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/05/28-percent-3/
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/18/30-percent/
It’s really sloppy, and misleading. It’s also completely unnecessary.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:54 pmThanks RuCerious.
Thats a better line, short and to the point.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:56 pmYeah I don’t see it as a new low. Its the same low.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:57 pmPolls, how I love them. Polls told me what to do. I have no right and wrong meter, just a poll meter. I was and am a fair weather fan when it comes to polls. Polls, polls, and more polls.
why do the right thing when polls make it easy for you and you do the poll thing, right?
anyway, I wouldn’t be talking about low approval ratings for our Prez. I just got off the phone with Pelosi and Reid, they are aware that it took them 5 months to achieve what it took the President 7 years and the Republican led Congress 12 years to achieve. Approval ratings in the low 30s and high 20s.
I always tell my Democratic friends, don’t throw rocks when your house is also made out of glass.
My friends, take my advice. I am, wait, I was the President and the smartest one to set foot on the Oval Office.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:58 pmUm, most of us here are among the majority who are ‘against’ this president, but I wish you all at TP would just take any new survey out and claim it’s a ‘new low’.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/05/28-percent-3/
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/18/30-percent/
It’s really sloppy, and misleading. It’s also completely unnecessary.
Comment by Namtillaku — May 22, 2007 @ 12:54 pm
But we all know this site is a joke. Why do you think I post on here. I am a joke, you are a joke, all Liberals who post here are a joke.
No wonder this site is misleading and a joke.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:00 pmIt’s really sloppy, and misleading. It’s also completely unnecessary.
Comment by Namtillaku — May 22, 2007 @ 12:54 pm
I agree with you, it’s very misleading. But in fairness to TP, they are claiming new lows in specific polls. Ideally, they would provide all current poll results in the article but I suppose that wouldn’t be as fantastic.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:01 pmEvery time there is a new record low reported in one poll or another, at least a few people wonder why it’s a record low when he was at 29% last week.
Please try to keep in mind that there are several dozen recognized national opinion polls, and these record lows that keep piling up are specific to those polls. For instance Rasmussen has consistently had among the highest approval ratings for the President compared to other polls. A rating of 33% from them is not only a record low, it would be damn near 25%-territory for some other methodologies.
PS I’d like to congratulate TPers for largely ignoring the familiar irrelevant trolls at last. Excellent work.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:01 pmSoon he’ll be at Truman levels.
What honorable company to have.
Comment by m12 — May 22, 2007 @ 12:49 pm
Well, go figure. My wife has been quoting Truman and claiming that she wants to be the new Truman in the White House. My wife thinks he was honorable.
But i tell her, girl, girl, look at his low approval ratings. Stop quoting Truman and claiming you want to be like him.
She never, ever listens to me. I tell you, I think she is a man. With that temper of hers, there is no way she is a woman.
My women are docile, easily controlled, easily led, easily fooled with my sweet talk.
I dazzled over 50% of women in America, why can’t I dazzle my wife?
Women, such easily fooled creatures. Ask Monica.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:02 pmClinton,
You sound angry, wassamatter, no BJ’s recently?
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:03 pmBut we all know this site is a joke.
If by joke you mean reporting the facts, yeah they’re a real joke. This site has a left-humanist bent, but the facts speak for themselves. You go ahead and cling to your authoritarian personality, riddled with superstition, TP and myself are happier with the facts.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:03 pmI am not really President Clinton; I am really just a stonewalling, obstructionist Republican plant who gets his jollies and a modest paycheck from typing inane thoughts on TP threads. Sometimes I call myself “President Clinton” when I’m feeling witty, sometimes I call myself something else (you’ll have to guess). But always my aim is to disrupt, distract and dissemble. And you pathetic libs fall for it every time.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:06 pmI agree with you, it’s very misleading. But in fairness to TP, they are claiming new lows in specific polls. Ideally, they would provide all current poll results in the article but I suppose that wouldn’t be as fantastic.
Comment by erock — May 22, 2007 @ 1:01 pm
It doesn’t matter, TP’s headline up there is 31 Percent, then it goes on to talk about a new low approval rating. The headline is what’s misleading, it’s not a new low – I don’t care who’s poll the number came from, it smacks of chicken little, and it diminishes everything else TP has to say.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:07 pmNamtillaku, you’re right. It doesn’t matter that they clarify it later, it looks like this site is trying hard as it can to be the National Enquirer of blogs. No need for the sensationalism.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:12 pmClinton,
You sound angry, wassamatter, no BJ’s recently?
Comment by ForTruth — May 22, 2007 @ 1:03 pm
My man, BJ, I am lucky if I see a naked woman. I tell you, I had everything during the Presidency. and I said it, I did it because I could, because I was drunk with power. ahhhhhh power, power, power!
but don’t get me started with the BJs. Hillary thinks it demeans women!
yet she has me down her skirt all day long!
I tell you this 21st century women, such evil creatures. I liked them more in the 1990s and I liked Hillary more when she knew she had to play nice because without me, she would be a nobody!
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:15 pmI am not really President Clinton; I am really just a stonewalling, obstructionist Republican plant who gets his jollies and a modest paycheck from typing inane thoughts on TP threads. Sometimes I call myself “President Clinton†when I’m feeling witty, sometimes I call myself something else (you’ll have to guess). But always my aim is to disrupt, distract and dissemble. And you pathetic libs fall for it every time.
Comment by President Clinton — May 22, 2007 @ 1:06 pm
Do the American people not know that impersonating me is a Federal Crime?
I made this law right before I left the Oval Office.
STOP IT, or I will go Chinese embassy in Serbia on you.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:17 pmIt’s turning the corner! It was 28% last week.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:19 pm“Heckuva job Chimpy, ya dumb f*ck!”
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:19 pmDon’t be a bummer Bubba,
I’m sure you can still cruise the babes at any time you want to. You are still loved all over the world man. Just remember what the Dr. said about your ticker.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:21 pmI’m sure the amnesty bill has nothing to do with it.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:24 pm#40 Patrick1
If he is so unpopular why can’t the Democrats pass their surrender bill with enough votes to override a veto?
Okay, you can all argue over who the dumbest troll is, but Patrick has to take “King of the Non Sequiturs” hands down.
Yeah, Patrick, if Bush is so unpopular, why does he have his own airplane? If Bush is so unpopular, how come gas is up to $3.20 a gallon? If Bush is so unpopular, then why is asparagus green?
This is what I’ve been saying for years. Right-wingers do not understand the relationship between cause and effect. Not that it’s rocket science. It’s just a part of their brains that doesn’t work.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:25 pmha ha
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:29 pmPresident Bush is set this week to secure a major victory when the Democratic controlled Congress completes work on the Iraq War Supplemental.
“Make no mistake, this is a complete and total sellout of the base by the Democrats.â€Democratic leaders in the House are now admitting that they will have to send the president a supplemental appropriations bill that will fully fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of the fiscal year without any of the mandatory conditions they once insisted upon.
Guess the moonbats should be thankful he is so unpopular.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:33 pmI wish I had a REAL life — you know, like a girlfriend and a really cool job delivering pizzas or something that would get me out of my mom’s basement once in a while. Maybe then I wouldn’t be driven to pretend I was someone else that people really liked.
Still, it’s fun to pretend that I’m smart and powerful and chicks dig me. That and Playstation get me through the day. Oh and Cheetos too. Don’t forget the Cheetos.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:33 pm#42 Namtillaku
Um, most of us here are among the majority who are ‘against’ this president, but I wish you all at TP would just take any new survey out and claim it’s a ‘new low’.
The one that really stands out is the Rasmussen poll. It’s a right-leaning polling organization and their numbers for Bush are always higher than most other polls. For him to hit 33% in the Rasmussen poll is a record low for them and it’s pretty astounding. On top of that, they poll every day and show a three day running average. Bush has been at 35% or lower for six straight days. They think it’s because of his position on immigration reform. Now he’s even starting to lose the staunch righties.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:35 pmI had very high polling numbers throughout my terms in office. Even after it was revealed that I lied to the american people on TV by telling them “we never negotiate with terrorists,” though we began shipping them weapons scant months after my taking office. Go figure…
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:36 pm#63 Patrick1
President Bush is set this week to secure a major victory when the Democratic controlled Congress completes work on the Iraq War Supplemental.
That’s what happens when you get your news from Faux. Try this instead: Fox News Falsely Declares Bush Winner Of Iraq Funding Standoff — Contradicting Its Own Reporting
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:39 pmPresident Clinton,
I just want you to know that I will continue to truly sully the office that you had. You’ve got nothing on me Billy Boy. Take a look at my accomplishments
I outed a covert CIA operative for nothing more than political gain.
I signed the most fiscally reckless tax deferment in history.
I signed off on 48 percent worth of increased discretionary funding. FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY is something you Democrats know nothing about.
I lied to the American People about stuff that affects them. WMD, Iraq and al Qaeda being in league etc…
I’ve seen huge increases in poverty, and increases in the number of people without health care coverage. Nothing better than knowing my desire to do nothing about the private insurance industry in this country has lead to millions of children not being able to see a doctor!!
My daughters at least know how to party!!
I’ve stacked the DOJ with partisan hacks that respond only the needs of Republicans. This way we can insure continued success at the polls.
I’ve put right-wing activist judges on the Supreme Court that love fetuses and hate children!!
I love to hire people who graduate from second schools ran by religious whackos that think Americans are to blame for 9-11.
I have been giving billions of dollars to religious institutions in defiance of the 1st Amendment.
I wire tapped every American I could without according them the due process they are constitutionally given.
I decided against caring about the general welfare on New Orleans residents after that squall they suffered through.
I hired a horse owner to run FEMA.
I have used the signing statement so abusively, that I I’m not even sure what I laws I have to follow anymore, so I don’t worry about law anymore.
I decry the New York Times for running stories on classified programs, but the I turn around and declassify stuff like that all the time when it helps me politically.
I labeled an American Citizen an enemy combatant and completely stripped him of his Constitutional freedoms and rights. Then we tortured the hell out of him for three years before my buddies in the Supreme Court told me I would lose if I tried to keep as an enemy combatant any longer.
I blamed the systemic problems at Abu Grhaib on a couple of low level privates, and the country bought it.
I appointed an attorney general that was woefully unqualified, and who probably can’t recall his own name.
I created whole new levels of bureaucracy for our government to fund. Because I know you Dems love big government. I did it for you.
I said nothing while a group of partisan hacks lied about John Kerry’s courageous service in Vietnam. As a result of the heat he was taking, we never had to bring up the fact that no one knows why I was AWOL during my stint with the Guard.
I could go on, by I need one of those wonder bread cheese sammiches. My blood sugar is kinda low.
HEY CONDI, back that thing back in here girl and bring me a sammich!!!
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:42 pmI’m very disappointed in all of this. I had wooden teeth and my polling numbers were still good.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:43 pm“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.†– Ronald Reagan
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:43 pmPresident Bush and the Republican Leadership deserve full credit for this defeat of the Democrats’ signature policy initiative. The president’s May 1st veto of the Democrats’ original supplemental, the leadership’s refusal to back down to Democrat and media pressure on the override vote, and the Administration’s steadfast refusal to accept restrictions or timelines have won the day. Cracks in the Democrats’ armor have been exposed and their members are taking notice.
National Journal (sub. req.), in its Congress Daily feature, has the details on rumblings in the Democratic caucus about Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership thus far.
â€There simply is no direction,†said the spokesman for one mid-level Democratic member closely tied to leadership. “Press is an afterthought on our side, and it shows.†[...]
“You look at the Republican apparatus and it is like they’re playing chess and we’re playing checkers,” the first-term lawmaker said. [...]
“It is going to take time to figure out, but at the end of the day there has to be stronger leadership and some more-aggressive message defense,” said one former senior House Democratic communications professional who now heads press operations for a prominent party-affiliated group. “It is a problem for every Democrat in Congress if they don’t realize the Republicans are going to turn Pelosi into radioactive material before the 2008 election and try and use that to win the House back.”
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:45 pmLast week it was 28%, so it seems to fluctuate around 30% rock hard for Bush even if he had sex with Jeff Gannon on the White House lawn.
Comment by Jay Randal
What do you mean, IF?
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:46 pmThey must be still polling that same trailer park in Kentucky.
Comment by trippin
Has anybody here ever been polled? I asked last week and not one response. Never even heard of anybody being polled on this presidency.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:48 pmNo compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:49 pmSo what! What is important is if the Democrats actually take advantage of all the criminal activity being exposed and do something about it. They are afraid of 2008 and possibly not keeping control of Congress and not winning the White House. When will a person with principles and morals, either a presidential candidate or a member of Congress, start demanding more accountability?
TP is becoming nothing more than ’sound bites’.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:50 pmPatrick1,
Reagan?!?!?!?
With all your talk of traitors, how much did he aid the enemy when he gave them weapons Patrick? Care to let us in on that?
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:50 pmI am not really President Clinton; I am really just a stonewalling, obstructionist Republican plant who gets his jollies and a modest paycheck from typing inane thoughts on TP threads. Sometimes I call myself “President Clinton†when I’m feeling witty, sometimes I call myself something else (you’ll have to guess). But always my aim is to disrupt, distract and dissemble. And you pathetic libs fall for it every time.
Comment by President Clinton
Sure now that I warned you about electroshock therapy your acting like you don’t believe you’re Clinton. Well maybe your not THAT crazy but your still a stupid loon.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:52 pmI know I said that I was President Clinton, but that was only to hide my REAL identity. I’m actually Napoleon, but I figured no one would believe me except for the faith-based conservatives and THEY would hate me because I’m French.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:57 pmHey Ronnie, good to see you old man. Just keep your mouth shut until I tell you what to say. You know, just like your entire presidency. In fact, I’ve been in charge since I framed Oswald in the JFK assassination. Except when that Bill Clinton was in office. He was hard to control. Of course people still believe all the lies I spread about Carter so guess I am omnipotent. After all, my idiot son is on his second term, I must know how this fascism works.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:59 pm“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H. L. Mencken
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:00 pmIt’s much more fun in here when people act like people they aren’t!!!
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:01 pmHEY CONDI, back that thing back in here girl and bring me a sammich!!!
Comment by President Bush — May 22, 2007 @ 1:42 pm
JUNIOR, how many times have I told you to keep your big stupid mouth SHUT. Your not supposed to tell the people all the shit I’ve pulled and let you get away with. I’ll deal with you when your mother and I get there later. She’ll probably want to water board you again.
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:02 pmI am not really President Clinton; I am really just a stonewalling, obstructionist Republican plant who gets his jollies and a modest paycheck from typing inane thoughts on TP threads. Sometimes I call myself “President Clinton†when I’m feeling witty, sometimes I call myself something else (you’ll have to guess). But always my aim is to disrupt, distract and dissemble. And you pathetic libs fall for it every time.
Comment by President Clinton
Nobody is falling for it. If you think anyone is, you’re the pathetic loser. Do you think there aren’t people here baiting people like you to show your pathetic Republican, right-wing, fascist, extremist views. It just keeps the discussion going.
You’re the pathetic fall guy!
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:02 pmIt’s much more fun in here when people act like people they aren’t!!!
Comment by Milli Vanilli — May 22, 2007 @ 2:01 pm
Touché.
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:05 pmuraluzer — our first time on a blog forum?
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:06 pmThis must be the famous person blogging thread.
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:18 pmWhy do you think I post on here.
Comment by President Clinton — May 22, 2007 @ 1:00 pm
Because this site is telling people the truth about what’s going on in the world and that worries you. If the average person read this site and knew how corrupt this administration was they would be up in arms.
So, you come here and do everything you can to degrade it and insult it. Unfortunately, it’s not working.
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:21 pmAnd still the Dems in congress will be cowed and scared by this ineffective and bumbling man..who are the true fools here/
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:51 pmNo, Mr. Clinton-Napoleon, not quite. It seems as if it is your’s though. I too use other names to confuse people like yourself.
LOSER!
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:56 pmI’m finding it hard to believe that 31 out of every 100 citizens of this fine country are stupid/crazy/mean-spirited/delusional (choose as many as you like and feel free to add more) enough to STILL think the freakin’ bat-shit crazy little monster is still doing a good job.
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:36 pm