26 percent.
By on Jun 21st, 2007 at 4:33 pm
26 percent.
President Bush’s approval rating in a new Newsweek poll, a new low. “[A] record 65 percent disapprove, including nearly a third of Republicans.”
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How abot Congress at 25%?
June 21st, 2007 at 4:35 pmThe american people are sick of both parties.
But the Muslims lovong fools here don’t realize this.
What a bunch of losers here!
People are frustrated with Congress because their hands are tied by the fu*king republicans who are not allowing anything to happen. They can’t pass bills and they certainly can’t get enough votes to override a veto.
You call us muslim loving fools. You’re a plain fool if you buy into this bull$hit the government is feeding you. You’re been snowed and you’re too stupid to realize it.
Sad state of affairs for this country.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:38 pmDo there need to be two threads dedicated to the exact same topic?
Come on, TP…
June 21st, 2007 at 4:39 pmOh piffle.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:40 pm“How abot Congress at 25%?
The american people are sick of both parties.”
Bzzzzzzt!!!! Sorry, troll, try again. The approval rating of Congress as a whole is about equal to Bush’s. The approval rating of the Democratic leadership/Democrats in Congress is about ten points higher.
And, of course, after the Democrats passed the timelines bill, their approval rating was near 60%.
Republicans in Congress are less popular than Bush – they’re down in Cheney territory. Their determination to torpedoe the Democrats’ efforts to end the war are dragging down the approval ratings of Congress as a whole.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:41 pmIn the other thread (that they just deleted) Jason was trying to spin a 26 percent approval rating as “not a big deal”.
LOL.
26 percent.
Right where Nixon was at, right before he was put out to pasture.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:41 pm#2
Rofl! When the GOP is in the majority, its their fault…when the Dims are in the majority they go scotfree!
June 21st, 2007 at 4:41 pmKnow what is really scary…… how there can be even 26% of the population that still buys the BushCo Bullsh!t. But then they are also the ones who kept AN Smith alive for months and still wait for the latest on Brit Spears and Paris Hilton at Faux NoNooz.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:42 pmOnly nearly a third of Republicans? Man, you have to give the conservative faithful for being faithful.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:43 pmComment by The Joker — June 21, 2007 @ 4:35 pm
You were doing very well right up until “Muslims lovong fools”.
Whatever your taking, it seems to be having some effect. Up the dosage.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:43 pmm12 what was the GOP’s fault when they were in the majority? And who is scotfree?
June 21st, 2007 at 4:43 pmBut the Muslims lovong fools here don’t realize this.
Comment by The Jerker — June 21, 2007 @ 4:35 pm
What is a “Muslims lovong fool”?
June 21st, 2007 at 4:44 pmThere will always be lemmings that buy everything fed to them. If only I had a bridge to sell. Those are the people I’d look for.
It’s a GREAT bridge! You’re a patriot for buying it! You will save the country and be a hero. You alone can fix everything wrong with this country if you buy this bridge. Wave that flag and BUY MY BRIDGE!
June 21st, 2007 at 4:44 pmJust for fun – in his 7th year Clinton was at what, 60%?
June 21st, 2007 at 4:45 pmMsJoanne,
June 21st, 2007 at 4:45 pmHey Muslim loving fool.
If you read my posts you will see I am no fan of Bush!
I detest both the Dems and Reps.
People hate both Democrats and Republicans.
That’s why there’s buzz about Bloomberg.
We want new leaders!
Twelve points higher than Harry Reid.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:46 pmRofl! When the GOP is in the majority, its their fault…when the Dims are in the majority they go scotfree!
Comment by miss12 — June 21, 2007 @ 4:41 pm
26 percent.
Right where Nixon was, right before we put that peice of crap out to pasture.
Just like we’re gonna do with this peice of crap.
:D
June 21st, 2007 at 4:46 pmAh, Bartlebee…my all time fav poster. Good to see ya, darlin’!
June 21st, 2007 at 4:46 pm60% among Al Qaeda.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:46 pmRofl! When the GOP is in the majority, its their fault…when the Dims are in the majority they go scotfree!
Comment by m12 — June 21, 2007 @ 4:41 pm
The Republicans had a super majority and could get anything passed with or with out the Democrats. The Democrat now do NOT have a super majority. Do you know what the difference is? I am sure you do, you are just ignoring that fact, because you are a republican tool.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:46 pmJoker,
I am sick of both parties, and I always say, at the end of the day, the Dems are no different. Its all a big cesspool of shit.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:47 pmHi MsJoanne.
I didn’nt know you cared, lol.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:47 pmUh Bloomberg is not new. He is only not insane like the real Republicans. Please.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:48 pmI blame the general populous for being uninvolved and apathetic.
And the 1% who control the majority of wealth.
The rest is all a show.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:49 pmMsJoanne,
Hey Muslim loving fool.
If you read my posts you will see I am no fan of Bush!
I detest both the Dems and Reps.
People hate both Democrats and Republicans.
That’s why there’s buzz about Bloomberg.
We want new leaders!
Comment by The Jerker — June 21, 2007 @ 4:45 pm
Bloomberg ay?
Well, it would be nice to have a gay president I guess.
He certainly could spruce up the Oval Office.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:49 pmThis latest approval rating means that Chimpy just tied Harry Truman’s record for largest swing in approval ratings during a presidency.
…and Chimpy still has 18 months of Presidency left (assuming Congress continues to play the battered-wife enabler to Chimpy’s mean drunk), and nowhere to go but down.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:50 pmStill several points higher than his IQ score.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:51 pmIn order for the pendulum to swing in a good direction, it has to have swung all the way over to the worst side. Still swinging to the negative.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:54 pmWhat the poor poll numbers for Congress show is two things:
1) People want Congress to get more done, pass more legislation and hold the administration accountable but they don’t have the votes to overcome Republican stonewalling and obstructionism.
and
2) Democrats are much more willing to criticize their own than are Republicans. The ratings for Congress are about the same across the board among Republicans, Democrats and Independents, but when it comes to Bush, two-thirds of Republicans still approve of his performance.
Tells you something, doesn’t?
June 21st, 2007 at 4:54 pmfrom first to worst. GW did always think big.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:54 pmThat time is coming when we can read the news and not see the name Bush. What a disaster and pain he has been for this country. I’m wishing away 11/2 years of my life but I’ll pay the price.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:55 pm2) Democrats are much more willing to criticize their own than are Republicans.
Comment by spit ball — June 21, 2007 @ 4:54 pm
lol
You obviously missed the last republican debate.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:56 pmDemoncrats just do not have the balls to get anything done even after winning big in the last elections.
Tells you something, doesn’t?
June 21st, 2007 at 4:57 pmIt’s not Chimpy’s fault, its the country’s fault.
Chimpy is just a tool like so many others are.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:57 pmBARTLBUm,
June 21st, 2007 at 4:58 pmBloomberg is Hetero.
He has a girlfriend.
He’s a mack daddy playa!
Democrats are just as bought out as the rest. They answer to the great ATM in the sky.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:58 pmTerry Haggard has a wife. Even Elton John had a wife. What’s wrong with the gay mayor? Do you think he hates muslims as much as you Joker?
June 21st, 2007 at 5:00 pmThe Republicans had a super majority and could get anything passed with or with out the Democrats. The Democrat now do NOT have a super majority. Do you know what the difference is? I am sure you do, you are just ignoring that fact, because you are a republican tool.
Factcheck: The Republican majority in the House was smaller than the current Dem one, and the Senate majority was only 2 votes in 03-04!
June 21st, 2007 at 5:01 pmBloomberg is Hetero.
He has a girlfriend.
Comment by The Joke — June 21, 2007 @ 4:58 pm
So did Liberace.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:01 pm#1 Christo-Fascist loving Joker
How abot Congress at 25%?
The american people are sick of both parties.
But the Muslims lovong fools here don’t realize this.
What a bunch of losers here!
Yeah, Congress at 25%. Huh. Here are some things to consider:
1. Congress has hit lower than 25% and often did throughout last year before the Dems took over. In fact, it hit 16% in October last year, just before voters shitcanned the GOP majority.
2. You have to go back 33 years to find a president’s approval rating lower than Bush’s.
3. If you’re going to keep on dragging Congress into it every time someone points out how much Bush sucks, it would mean a lot more if you’d break it down by party. Which half of Congress is dragging the entire legislative branch down? You might consider that people are pissed at Congress because the legislation that people want to get passed (Iraq withdrawal timelines, for example) is getting blocked by Republicans. But, just so you have something to work with, you can compare the parties here http://pollingreport.com/cong_dem.htm and here http://pollingreport.com/cong_rep.htm
June 21st, 2007 at 5:02 pmYou watch.
In another month the trolls will be longing for the “good ole days” of 26 percent approval.
Bush’s rating will continue to fall.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:04 pmI don’t understand how his ratings could be so low.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/
June 21st, 2007 at 5:04 pmApplying Tony Snow logic to this data, it’s clear that the lower Bush’s ratings, the better the job he’s doing. When he bottoms out at 2% he will be ascended to a higher plane.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:06 pmchimpeach,
June 21st, 2007 at 5:07 pmLike a blind, ignorant brainwashed jerk the 2 polls prove 1 thing.
People are sick of both parties!
Sto being a blind mouse following the pied piper.
Wake up and realize they both suck!
Come on guys at 26% approval rating impeach this GW Bush now!
Come on Demoncrats get some balls.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:07 pm#33 Flaco
Demoncrats just do not have the balls to get anything done even after winning big in the last elections.
Tells you something, doesn’t?
Actually, they’ve gotten a lot more done in six months than the Republicans did in six years. But, if we were to accept your faulty premise, it would tell me that the Republicans have far fewer balls than the Democrats and probably shouldn’t be drawing attention to that fact unless they’re really proud of it.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:07 pmOh yea I remember the first 100 days heh.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:08 pmThe dems has been in office for about 7 months(I think there should have been more accomplish by now)yet in still they can only do so much.All you dumb repubs expect them to clean up the mess of the last 12 years in just 7 months.Come on people common sense will tell you it can’t be done.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:08 pmIm still waiting for the war funding to cease; America gave the dems a mandate and its time to fess up, consarnit!
Of course, America seemingly gave the dems a mandate to raise taxes, legalize twelve million “undocumented Americans (hat tip: Reid), accept a hysterical global warming theory as hard science, allow Pelosi to conduct her own foreign affairs agenda and generally get nothing done other than to piss and moan about Bush.
Its a MANDATE, dems, why havent you stopped the funding? Why indeed.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:09 pmLano,
June 21st, 2007 at 5:09 pmThe fact is the American people hate the Democrats and republicans!
Factcheck: The Republican majority in the House was smaller than the current Dem one, and the Senate majority was only 2 votes in 03-04!
Comment by m12 — June 21, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
That would be a good point, You’re12, if the Republican Congress were contending with an opposition President. But they weren’t. They were rubber-stamping everything Bush wanted. Remember that? No, of course you don’t.
Understand the concept of divided government? No, of course you don’t.
Now go clean up that juice box that you spilled.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:10 pm“Actually, they’ve gotten a lot more done in six months than the Republicans did in six years”
Ha ha!
June 21st, 2007 at 5:10 pmThey haven’t done crap!
Wake up!
Meanwhile, Congress has scored a record low poll approval rating of just 14% – the lowest ever recorded in the Gallup Poll’s history.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:10 pm#38 – Factcheck: The Republican majority in the House was smaller than the current Dem one, and the Senate majority was only 2 votes in 03-04!
Comment by m12
Factcheck! But Dubya was slithering around in the WH then, too.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:12 pmspit take,
June 21st, 2007 at 5:12 pmYou’re in denial that the American people are sick of both parties!
How mush is the DNC paying to spew their Islamic loving talking points?
#44 Joke
Like a blind, ignorant brainwashed jerk the 2 polls prove 1 thing.
People are sick of both parties!
Sto being a blind mouse following the pied piper.
Wake up and realize they both suck!
So you had a hard time reading the polls? I’ll summarize for you. People despise the Republicans so much that they’re getting pissed off at the Democrats for not having gotten rid of the Republicans, yet. Now, if that makes you take pride in the Republicans, you’re a ‘unique’ individual.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:12 pmWhat’s wrong with raising taxes.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:12 pmIt’s good for people!
Frank J,
Are you insinuating that back in 2003-2004 the majority of media workers were giving to the Republicans? I doubt that’s what you think. Your argument is dumb.
This President simply refuses to do the things the people of America want done. HE’s done nothing on health care, the war is still going, he vetoed the stem cell research bill, he’s thrown away his ‘fiscal conservatism’ in favor of a borrow and spend policy, his tax cuts are nothing more than tax defferments that will have to be paid back later, presription drugs are still through the roof, he’s done nothing on Global warming.
All these issues are issues that the American people overwhelmingly want action on, but he, and his party are obstructing evrything the Democrats have tried on these issues. Hell, he can’t even get his party ot line up on immigration.
HE THE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY!!!!!! You must come to grips with this!!!!!
June 21st, 2007 at 5:13 pmOh yea I remember the first 100 days heh.
Comment by Flaco — June 21, 2007 @ 5:08 pm
Yep, so do we and so do the people of the USA. We will remember how the republicans blocked, fiilabuster and vetoed everything that was done in the first 100 days.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:13 pm“Ha ha!
They haven’t done crap!
Wake up!
Comment by The Joker — June 21, 2007 @ 5:10 pm”
Really???
They had to do the BUDGET for this year because the Republicans were to busy trying to get a flag burning ammendment passed…..
They have held more oversight meetings in the 7 months then the Republicans did in the 6 years Bush has been in office.
They have provided CONSTITUTIONAL oversight per the CONSTITUTION…..
Immagine that!!!!
June 21st, 2007 at 5:13 pmOh snap!
The “Jihad” Joker and “Fascist” Flaco… but where is Mr. “Red” Roboto??
June 21st, 2007 at 5:14 pmMeanwhile, Congress has scored a record low poll approval rating of just 14% – the lowest ever recorded in the Gallup Poll’s history.
Comment by Flaccido
Since they’ve only had about six months to start cleaning up the mess left by a Republic administration and Congress, it’s not too surprising that they haven’t been able to raise the opinions of Americans. They have at least started to shine some lights in the corners while the republoroaches scurry for cover. Cleaning up toxic waste sites take time.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:14 pmWhat’s wrong with raising taxes.
It’s good for people!
Comment by Mr. Roboto — June 21, 2007 @ 5:12 pm
Oh, there he is!!!!!
June 21st, 2007 at 5:14 pmchimpeach,
June 21st, 2007 at 5:15 pmWromng the polls show that the people are sick of Both parties.
They are both archaic and corrupt.
I understand you’re brainwashed and must spew the party line.
But get out and talk with real folfs.
Not silver spooned fed Leftists that think the Democrats are the saviors!
Unlike you, I’m not brainwash and detest both psrties.
They offer no real solutions and are run by Muslim interests.
All you dumb repubs expect them to clean up the mess of the last 12 years in just 7 months.Come on people common sense will tell you it can’t be done.
Getting rid of the trash in their own party would be a start, I wont believe they are serious until that happens. Both sides are so busy selling all of us down the river that we have decided to crap on each other because its easier than confronting them.
This entire government has become more of an aristocracy than a federal republic, pork rules the day and the common dude on the street is left holding his balls because its the only thing the pols have left us. But hey, keep going on in this monumental and never-ending pissing match about which side is worse, meanwhile the fools we have elected are laughing all the way to the bank.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:16 pmImpeachment takes votes!
The rubber-stamp-anything-the-president-does GOP’s in Congress are the epitome of DO NOTHING, for nothing. The congress can’t even get any f*cking bills passed as they can’t get enough votes to override a veto let alone impeach.
While it sounds delicious it just is not going to happen.
Nothing will happen in Washington while the GOP continues to stop any legislation that makes sense for the people of this country. We’ve long surpassed the days when these people actually represent us and will likely never get it back while allowing corporate lobbyists to buy and sell them like common stock.
This has nothing to do with balls and everything to do with checkmate or stalemate. It’s one or the other these days, there is no middle ground.
And we, the American people, lose. Everytime!
June 21st, 2007 at 5:16 pmPRIMVS INTER PARES,
You’re an ignorant Dhimmicrat follower.
Wake up the people hate both parties.
gummitch,
June 21st, 2007 at 5:17 pmThe Iranian ran DNC is either paying you good money or just dumb!
$5 and a punch in the mouth ,
June 21st, 2007 at 5:18 pmAmen to you brother.
A breath of fresh air.
No get ready for the Leftard attacks.
They can’t stand the truth and it hurts when you point out they’re just as corrupt and treacherous too!
Well the Congress is down to about 19 to 20%, so Bush still has a higher approval than House or Senate. About 1/4 of any nation are fascists, so Bush at 26% is probably just about rock bottom fascists.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:19 pm#64 – They offer no real solutions and are run by Muslim interests.
Comment by The Joker
Wow, jokester, I have noticed you really have a woody for the muslims, are you actually a closet one? Or did one stand your mother up on a date recently?
They do have drugs for paranoic- schizophrenia now, you know. Ask your family doctor, I am sure he/she will be happy to help you out.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:20 pmJay,
June 21st, 2007 at 5:21 pmYes and the other 1/4 are Muslim loving Stalinists like you!
That leave 1/2 of the people athat are sick of both of you losers!
Unlike you, I’m not brainwash and detest both psrties.
Comment by The Joker — June 21, 2007 @ 5:15 pm
Anybody notice how many of the Freepers over in the talk radio thread are using this same line while spewing right wing talking points?
Friggin’ oy. If these people really felt that way, they would be progressives, not NeoCons.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:21 pmNothing will happen in Washington while the GOP continues to stop any legislation that makes sense for the people of this country.
I call bullshiite. Who decides what “makes sense”? This is the political process, like it or not, and crying that one side is stalemating the other defies the entire political history of this nation. Technically, this government system was created precisely to induce stalemate because it was supposed to enforce compromise when the people got fed up and voiced their concern.
The sticking point is that the pols are no longer listening to us, they have decided to unilaterally consider all of us unworthy of consideration. Its BOTH sides, the quicker you realize that the better off you will be.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:23 pmThe “Jhiad” Joker,
June 21st, 2007 at 5:23 pmWhy havne’t yuo dneied thta yuo aer a Muslim-Magenta?
Whta aer yuo hdiing?
The Republicans are going to get wiped out in the coming elections precisely because they are standing in the way of justice for these criminals still in the WH. It’s political suicide. Do they think that he’s going to bottom out soon? Ha! Every single day his ratings are collapsing and you know we only have more screwups and lies to look forward to. Not to mention more American deaths and global instabillity and conflict.
They really are that stupid to not think about how much he will be hated in June of 08. And on top of that, he’ll be checking into the ranch which usually means disaster.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:23 pm“Both sides are so busy selling all of us down the river that we have decided to crap on each other because its easier than confronting them.”
Here is another example of a right winger using our arguement against us.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:23 pmI call bullshiite. Who decides what “makes sense�
The people of the Uniteed States of America.. 70% want funding for Stem Cell research. 72% want us out of Iraq. You guys just keep going against the people of the United States of America. That is up to you.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:25 pmspudge the Muslim lover.,
June 21st, 2007 at 5:25 pmWrong you loser.
There are people on both the Left and Right that hate both parties.
In your simple little mind it’s Left=good, Right=bad.
It’s not like that.
Both have good ideas and bad.
Americans are getting sivck of partisan Muslim hacks like you, that divide us and manipulate us.
The people have had it!
We want our country back!
The liberals are not selling us down the river, bub. That would the corporatist DLC Democrats. It is most assuredly NOT the same.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:25 pm$5,
June 21st, 2007 at 5:27 pmI toldyopu.
The attacks are beginning!
You have to tow the party line around here.
Independent thought is not allowed by Regressives!
“and crying that one side is stalemating the other defies the entire political history of this nation.
Comment by $5 and a punch in the mouth — June 21, 2007 @ 5:23 pm”
I guess you really don’t know how our government works……
In order to get a bill voted on once procedural monevours are enacted requires 60 votes to move it forward……
You don’t think that the Republicans can stall the Senate and prevent bills from moving forward????
Well here is your proof!!!!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/21/AR2007062101026.html?hpid=morheadlines
June 21st, 2007 at 5:27 pmwerenotgonnatakeit ,
June 21st, 2007 at 5:28 pmLike a good DNC hack you fail to notice that people atre sick of the Democrats also.
In fact I belive both parties will be wiped out in the next election!
#52
Ha ha!
They haven’t done crap!
Wake up!
The majority of Americans wanted a minimum wage increase. The Republicans blocked it for years. Five months after the Dems took over, it gets passed. That means they got Republicans to agree with them on it.
Haven’t done crap? They’ve exposed corruption throughout the Justice Department and the White House that your guys were helping keep covered up and refused to investigate. It may take a long time to prosecute with all the stonewalling and obstruction still be done by Republicans, but nobody would have even attempted to start investigating this stuff with the Republicans in the majority.
Look, it’s really simple. Your team is headed for an asskicking of Biblical proportions in next year’s elections and you know it. Your presidential candidates are all a joke. I’d feel like shit if I were you, because it’s only going to get worse.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:29 pmJoker > Muslims are not lurking behind every tree to get you, but if you are cute then stay away from GOPers in DC, because they might try to rape you.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:29 pmJoker. I was just clowning around with you.
I will be happy to listen to what Bloomberg has to say.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:29 pm#73 $5 and a punch in the mouth
Who decides what “makes sense�
I do.
I just wanted to clear that up.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:30 pmWe want our country back!
Comment by The Joker — June 21, 2007 @ 5:25 pm
How will you know when you have it? Please be more specific. Thanks
June 21st, 2007 at 5:30 pmAnd if the Democrats are stupid enough to nominate Hillary, I’ll be in here bashing them with you.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:30 pm82. Assw!pe, I was making the distinction between the centrist Democrats and real liberals. You’re obviously too stupid to comprehend this. I won’t waste my time with you.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:31 pmHere is another example of a right winger using our arguement against us.
Case in point.
But feel free to keep on with the diatribe, it wont get you anywhere but at least you might sleep better at night.
Here is what you need to know to put your mind at ease:
Democrats-all republicans are warmongering Bible-thumpers
Republicans-all democrats are soldier-hating dhimmists
Hear that chuckling in the background? Its your elected representatives, laughing at our conflict while they make secret deals in the backroom and prepare to act out the next stage of their supposed partisanship. How many millionaires are now in high office?
June 21st, 2007 at 5:31 pmHey, if his approval ratings slip down into single digits, does that mean we get to tar and feather him? Place him in stocks in front of the Capitol for public display and ridicule? Take away his veto pen, give him a time-out and make him sit in a corner?
I don’t think he cares what his approval ratings are. Frankly, I don’t think any of them do. Bush in particular would have to have a conscience in order to feel embarrassment or shame because he has sunk so low in the eyes of the nation. He still thinks HE is right and EVERYONE else in the entire country is wrong. What kind of mind works that way?
June 21st, 2007 at 5:32 pm#84 Jay Randal
Joker > Muslims are not lurking behind every tree to get you, but if you are cute then stay away from GOPers in DC, because they might try to rape you.
Yeah, I was wondering what talk radio blowhole he’s been listening to that mentions Muslims in every sentence. I guess every fascist has to have his pet scapegoat.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:33 pmJoker is a faker. Yet another neocon masquerading as a “leftist” to make us look bad. Weak.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:33 pmKNOCK… KNOCK….
Is this thing on????
Can anyone hear me????
June 21st, 2007 at 5:33 pmHear that chuckling in the background? Its your elected representatives, laughing at our conflict while they make secret deals in the backroom and prepare to act out the next stage of their supposed partisanship. How many millionaires are now in high office?
Comment by $5 and a punch in the mouth — June 21, 2007 @ 5:31 pm
Ah yes,our “Representaives”… Right off the plantations…
Howard Zinn explained how the Southern Cotton Farmers pitted their black slaves against their Irish Immigrant Indentured Servants so that they would fight amongst themselves, all the while missing the fact that the rich Plantation owners were exploiting them both.
They are doing it again. Instead of creating a divide of racism, they are creating one of political affliation, while they exploit us all…
June 21st, 2007 at 5:36 pmI guess you really don’t know how our government works……
I guess you cant understand simple reason.
I was referring to the earlier poster whining that the dems cant get anything done because the repubs are blocking them, as if this has never happened before in our nation’s history. As if this wasnt the plan all along by our founding fathers, their idea of governmental checks and balances.
Stalemate by one party against another is nothing new, it didnt suddenly come about in the 2006 elections. Sorry, I dont have a wikipedia entry to assist you any further in understanding this.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:37 pm#88 BARTLEBEE
And if the Democrats are stupid enough to nominate Hillary, I’ll be in here bashing them with you.
If they nominate Hillary, I won’t be voting for a presidential candidate.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:38 pmHe still thinks HE is right and EVERYONE else in the entire country is wrong. What kind of mind works that way?
Comment by JG — June 21, 2007 @ 5:32 pm
If Bush isn’t a sociopath, then I’m a god-fearing neocon… :D
June 21st, 2007 at 5:38 pmHe’s a sociopath. 1% of the country wakes up to this every month it seems.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:39 pm#90 ?
Republicans-all democrats are soldier-hating dhimmists
Who was the other troll that used to use that word a lot?
June 21st, 2007 at 5:41 pm#88 BARTLEBEE
If they nominate Hillary, I won’t be voting for a presidential candidate.
Comment by chimpeach — June 21, 2007 @ 5:38 pm
I will if someone like Nader runs. And maybe Gore will run independent.
Its still very early.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:42 pmHe’s a sociopath. 1% of the country wakes up to this every month it seems.
Comment by werenotgonnatakeit — June 21, 2007 @ 5:39 pm
And the rousing is definitely deep into conservative country too… Very few of the conservatives I know aren’t calling him an idiot outright… And when I suggest to them that we elect a true Moderate to run the country, instead of more extremists, they actually agree…
June 21st, 2007 at 5:44 pmWell, yeah, Congress probably does have a lower approval rating.
The reason is that there are still conservatives who agree with the Iraq war. They support Bush. Congress, on the other hand, is receiving disapproval from conservatives for trying to end the war and disapproval from progressives for not ending the war. And you’re kidding yourself if you think the Congressional disapproval is about much more than the war (true, the secret immigration and trade deals weren’t good for their ratings, but really, it’s the war).
So, the bottom line is that Bush is receiving his disapproval for his own policies; whereas, the Democratically controlled congress is receiving much of its disapproval for not enacting the policies they supposedly represent.
To boil down even more… People disapprove of Bush and his policies. Whereas, people disapprove of the effectiveness of the Democratic congress in passing their policies.
The underlying difference is evident in the way Bush and Congress have to go about improving these numbers. Bush must change his core views. Democrats have to be truer to theirs.
Republicans have often criticized the Democrats for being spineless. Sadly, you’re right. Democrats need to grow a spine if they’re as serious about things as the people who elected them. Otherwise, we’ll have to throw them out for people who are more effective.
Anyway, the comparison would be evident if the poll asked who do you more approve of: Bush or Congress. I’m betting Congress will receive ~ 2/3 of the votes in that poll…
June 21st, 2007 at 5:44 pmIf you need any further proof that both sides are hacks, focus on the immigration scam..er..bill making the rounds. They got together, threw this disaster into a pot, stirred it around and pulled out some horrifying thing that is supposed to answer all the questions and fill all the needs.
That isnt how the process is designed to work, yet both sides have decided the process shouldnt concern the unwashed masses out here and will just bend the rules to suit themselves.
Joker is dead-on, there is a hatred building for the self-appointed royalty who currently inhabit the beltway. I just hope the entire mess gets broomed next year. Byrd and Lott can go off and tandem skydive or something, couple of ancient losers.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:45 pmWho was the other troll that used to use that word a lot?
Comment by chimpeach — June 21, 2007 @ 5:41 pm
I-RIGHT-I
I’m thinking the Muslims finally got him :D
June 21st, 2007 at 5:46 pmWell anyway, its been real, gotta go pick up the kidlings and do the family thing.
Mata atode aimashou
June 21st, 2007 at 5:48 pmI will if someone like Nader runs. And maybe Gore will run independent.
Its still very early.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — June 21, 2007 @ 5:42 pm
I think Nader might have finally gotten the hint that he can’t get elected… :D
In the most recent interview I saw that Gore gave (Time), he said that he hadn’t ruled it out, but also wasn’t interested… Untilsomeone can figure out how to get him back in love with the notion of being President, because I have little doubt he would win big this time around (no one on the left or rightthat I know is happy with any of the choices thus far).
June 21st, 2007 at 5:50 pmspit take,
June 21st, 2007 at 5:50 pmHey how about your Democratic Congress ratings at 14%!
Wow how does it feel being a 14%?
Joker is not dead-on because he puts equal blame on both parties for dividing this country. Only until Karl Rove and his radio and cable propagandists came along did dividing the electorate become a campaign strategy.
Who invented “wedge issues”?
June 21st, 2007 at 5:51 pm#109 Joker is part of the wedge-issue process of PudgeBoy Rover. He blasts both sides but then accuses the Dems of being muslim-lovers. It is kinda like when Ted Haggard preached on Sundays about the immorality of homosexuality and then practiced it during the week……Or better yet, the BushCos saying they are Christians against stem cell research because of what it does to embryos while they continue to cause death and destruction in Iraq.
As we all know this list could go on forever.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:58 pmHey how about your Democratic Congress ratings at 14%!
Wow how does it feel being a 14%?
Comment by Ima Homo — June 21, 2007 @ 5:50 pm
First of all, Congress is only SLIGHTLY Democratic in majority. There are almost an equal number of Republicans occupying those seats on Capital Hill – therefore they share the low rating. This means that you own it as well.
Silly trolls are so incapable of understanding even first grade math…
June 21st, 2007 at 5:59 pm——————————
This is the third time I’ve asked this week:
When will TP report on the 14% approval rating of Congress?
Don’t you want to hold Congress accountable as well?
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June 21st, 2007 at 5:59 pm14% democrat congress ratings
June 21st, 2007 at 6:12 pmIn response to the $5 a$$hole who said I was whining, I wasn’t., pal, I was stating a fact.
When one side always has to give in to another side, that’s not checks and balances it’s obstruction of accomplishment. Dems are seen as weak because they will compromise. GOPers don’t compromise, it’s their way or the highway.
Yes, compromise is good unless you give the store away OR unless you won’t give anything. Then compromise is stalemate. And that’s where we are.
Don’t delude yourself that I see all politicians as being created equal. There are dem a$$holes and there are GOP a$$holes. The GOP just has a glut on the market of them and they have bigger holes. And few of them have any conscience, just as our president has none. He’s right all the time. He, and they, make me sick to my stomach.
We, on the other hand, are completely left out in the cold. Always.
The Dems and GOP at least used to make those compromises where something got done. Now, what is considered accomplishment? A bill that requires cars have a 35 mpg minimum by the year 2020? Give me a f*cking break. Some accomplishment. And to get THAT they had to cave to taking out a 4% increase annually because of the auto lobby. Is that what accomplishment means to you? That’s caving and we, in this case, the entire population, loses. Well, I do suppose that Toyota and Honda will do quite nicely as they already are there. WTG, Congress, you enabled NOTHING but more importing (Toyota already surpassed Ford as the #1 world supplier. They have a better product and actually know what consumers worldwide want.)
What a wonderful accomplishment. But I suppose SOMETHING got passed that will actually get signed.
How f*cking sick is all of this?
June 21st, 2007 at 6:14 pmTHIS THE WORST DEMONCRAT CONGRESS IN HISTORY!!!!!! You must come to grips with this!!!!!
Comment by Crump’s Brother
June 21st, 2007 at 6:21 pmThe Democrats don’t even have a veto-proof majority… They are just the majority in the Senate by ONE. That makes it a bipartisan 14% approval rating. The Republicans SHARE in the dismal approval rating.
Besides, you say that you don’t care about polls…
June 21st, 2007 at 6:25 pmBush’s approval rating could sink to 3% and it wouldn’t make a bit of difference. He’s still the decider, still in the White House, and still violating the Constitution, destroying democracy.
June 21st, 2007 at 6:40 pmHe must be removed from office and his VP and Gonzo with him.
spit take,
Hey how about your Democratic Congress ratings at 14%!
Wow how does it feel being a 14%?
Comment by Ima Homo — June 21, 2007 @ 5:50 pm
Well, You’re-A-Homo, I’m not a “14%er” (if that’s what you were trying to say before basic typing skills got in the way) because I don’t approve of this Congress, either — Democrats or Republicans. They’re not doing jacksh!t about the arrogant stonewalling of BushCo, Darth Cheney and Abu Gonzales, and they backed down on the war funding bill to a president with cripplingly low approval ratings.
But I’d rather have the Democrats in power than the Republicans, that’s for damn sure. They may not be getting much good done, but the last Congress did nothing but damage.
June 21st, 2007 at 6:45 pm14% democrat congress ratings! heh heh.
14% democrat congress ratings! heh heh.
14% democrat congress ratings! Heh heh.
Repeat as necessary.
June 21st, 2007 at 6:49 pmProbably not a lot of people are surprised by the president’s low approval ratings. The main cause of President’s Bush’s ratings is obviously the war in Iraq. I believe the people in this country are fed up with Bush’s senseless war and the lack of domestic policies. There are much more important issues in this world that the US should be taking part in, such as global poverty. According to the Borgen Project, whose goal is to fight global poverty, US is one of the nations pledged in the Millennium Development Project. MDP is aimed at eliminating world poverty in half by the year 2015. However, this country has done anything but reducing poverty. The war on “terror†has created more poverty, more hunger and more violence within Iraq and the United States. It is time for this country’s president to rethink the direction where this great nation is going. Perhaps the second lowest approval rating since Watergate will be a wake up call to President Bush.
June 21st, 2007 at 7:23 pmmstessyrue, did that project show that world poverty is one of the leading causes of terrorism?
And you can’t fight poverty when you are greedy as hell. Bush, et al, import it with every signing statement that gives and gives to cronies and take and takes from every other person possible.
June 21st, 2007 at 7:36 pmFirst of all, Congress is only SLIGHTLY Democratic in majority. There are almost an equal number of Republicans occupying those seats on Capital Hill – therefore they share the low rating. This means that you own it as well.
Silly trolls are so incapable of understanding even first grade math…
Comment by unbelievable
June 21st, 2007 at 8:17 pm————————————————————————————
Silly TPers are so incapable of understanding the Democrats are keeping this war going…
Most Americans are fed up with the executive [26%] AND legislative [14%] branches of the US Federal Government. So am I.
June 21st, 2007 at 9:02 pmwhoah nelly!!! – wasn’t he at 28% a few days ago? – wonder if he’ll bottom out to below 20 come “surge making progress” and the opening of the new embassy in baghdad in september – better move ass dubbya and save them thar stem cells and turn ‘em into repubs – he’s gonna need all the support he can get
June 21st, 2007 at 10:12 pm14%? Sure, pick whichever number you want, there’s a variety…
http://www.pollingreport.com/CongJob.htm
June 21st, 2007 at 11:02 pmThat would be a good point, You’re12, if the Republican Congress were contending with an opposition President. But they weren’t. They were rubber-stamping everything Bush wanted. Remember that? No, of course you don’t.
Understand the concept of divided government? No, of course you don’t.
You might have a point, if stuff was actually passing Congress and getting vetoed. But the President has only vetoed 1 new bill.
The Democrats can’t get their sh!t passed thru Congress despite large majorities!
June 21st, 2007 at 11:17 pmFirst of all, Congress is only SLIGHTLY Democratic in majority. There are almost an equal number of Republicans occupying those seats on Capital Hill – therefore they share the low rating. This means that you own it as well.
Did that same logic apply to the 109th Congress?
June 21st, 2007 at 11:18 pmDid that same logic apply to the 109th Congress?
Comment by m12 — June 21, 2007 @ 11:18 pm
Does that question prove you lied in the previous post? Oh, of course it, does, poor st*pid little wingnut. S*cks to be you – *ssh*le.
June 22nd, 2007 at 1:33 amHey you 14% your guys suck , gals too . Hey when are Hillary and Babra (SIC) going after Conservative internet sites or better Ban Conservative Bumper Stickers .
June 22nd, 2007 at 2:17 amDubya’s approval is low because he morphed into a domestic nazi and an international terrorist who spends money with both hands. The Republican Congress aided him in this ridiculousness and was fired for it.
The new Democrat Congress was installed to check Dubya’s rampant abuses, rather than on their own merits. They refuse to do what they were hired to do and stop our loony emperor in chief, so their approval tanked.
The truth is that our “adversarial” system of government is allot cozier than most folks would like to admit.. Except in opinion polls, which is what you see reflected here.
Fact is, they all suck. People are tired of the status quo and even more tired of the only option being to re-install the previous status quo.
We just need more options than R & D to choose from. This “bipartisan” stranglehold will eventually lead to our collapse.
June 23rd, 2007 at 9:34 pm