26 percent:
Bush’s approval rating in a new Newsweek poll. (Via Atrios.) Newsweek includes this helpful comparison chart:
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No Surprise here. Worst. President. Ever.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:02 pmWho are those 26%?
July 6th, 2007 at 4:04 pmYou must be a 26%-er. HAR HAR.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:04 pmComment by cjmartinez
Amnesty! Amnesty!
July 6th, 2007 at 4:05 pmWow! Almost as low as Nixon AFTER he was exposed as a crook. Wonder how low bush can go once HE is exposed?
PEACE
July 6th, 2007 at 4:05 pmHe must be going for a record here…… (”I need a legacy! ANY legacy!”)
July 6th, 2007 at 4:07 pmWhere is the bottom? Can you bet on this in Vegas?
July 6th, 2007 at 4:09 pmIt’s sad that 26% out there are so clueless, so gullible or so greedy and corrupt themselves that they give this miserable failure of an administration a positive approval rating.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:10 pmHey, he ain’t doing that bad.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:11 pmTHAT RATING DIRECTLY CORRESPONDS TO BUSHS
CESSPOOL OF POLITICAL PARASITES, ALL THE FRIGGIN
POLITICAL LEECHES, ROACHES, RATS, CRONY’S
LITERALLY A BUNCH OF POLITICAL HOODLUMS
FAST SMOOTH SLICK SHIFTY EYED SWINDLERS
LIKE I’LL SCRATCH YOU IF YOU SCRATCH ME
LIKE K STREET LIKE ALL THESE FRIGGIN HOODLUMS CREW TALKS
ABOUT
SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPEACHED
A LONG LONG TIME AGO
BUT BECAUSE OF ALL THE POLITICAL CORRUPTION
JUST MORE SCRATCHIN ME AND I’M GOING TO SCRATCH YOU
FRIGGIN IDIOTS…. WHAT A BUNCH OF CORRUPT POLITICAL PARASITES
July 6th, 2007 at 4:11 pmI’d like to use some of those 26%ers to test out a new fishing lure I’m working on. I know they’ll bite on it!
July 6th, 2007 at 4:11 pmMany of the polls for Truman were highly inaccurate becasue they were telephone polls. Many middle and all lwer class people lived without phones in their homes at that time. I think only the Nixon polls can be considered comparable.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:12 pmI wouldn’t hire Bush to cut my lawn….so yes, I think he deserves the ratings he gets….and all the other Republicans who supported him and his ‘popular’ policies….
July 6th, 2007 at 4:14 pmForget the polls…. it’s late Friday afternoon. That means it’s time for another DOJ employee to announce they’re leaving.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:15 pmComment by Badmoodman
You’re WRONG! Gonzalez can easily prevent that by ORDERING PIZZA!
July 6th, 2007 at 4:20 pmSmart people. Stupid President.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:24 pmWHAT I’M GOING TO SAY DUDE IS THE TRUTH
IT’S LIKE A BUNCH OF CRIMINALS
SMOOZING IT UP AND SCRATCHIN ONE ANOTHER
LIKE DRACULA AND WE THE PEOPLE GETTING THE FRIGGIN GREASE PITS
TOPPED OF WITH CORRUPTION OOZING DOWN THE SIDES OF THE
FRIGGIN GREASE DUMPS
THAT’S WHAT WE THE PEOPLE GET FOR SERVICE FROM THESE POLITICAL
CRIMINALS
ABRAMHOFF, FRIST, DELAY, …. THERE’S JUST TOO FRIGGIN MANY OF THESE
HOODLUMS
ALL FRIGGIN TOTALLY CORRUPTED - THE HIGHEST HOUSE OF THE LAND
THE DEPT RESPONSIBLE FOR UTMOST INTEGRITY/TRUTH
IS LITERALLY GIVING WE THE PEOPLE A FRIGGIN GREASE DUMP FOR SERVICE
ALL SHIFTY EYED, FAST SMOOTH SLICK TALKING
LIKE I’LL SCRATCH YOU AND YOU’LL SCRATCH ME
LIKE DEAL DUDE
LIKE LETS SMOOZE ON KSTREET AND THEY’LL SMOOZE WITH ME
DOESN’T MATTER REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRATS……
ALL FRIGGIN CORRUPTED DUDE
AND WHAT ABOUT THE MOST ACCOUNTABLE EVER…..
BALK AT LOBBYIST/BRIBERY REFORM
LITERALLY A CESSPOOL OF COMPLETE POLITICAL PARASITES DUDE
July 6th, 2007 at 4:24 pmThe Bush DeadEnders and the Nixon Deadenders are basically the same type of people. Bush could kill a kitten on the front lawn of the White House and they’d rush to his defense. They are the ones with Bush Derangement Syndrome.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:25 pmSo.
IS THIS ALL YOU GOT TODAY TP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BwAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 6th, 2007 at 4:25 pmJIMBO DUDE
ROCK SOLID INTEGRITY DUDE
JIMBO DUDE
ROCK SOLID TRUTH DUDE
JIMBO DUDE
IS NOW TAKING CHILL PILLS DUDE :)
July 6th, 2007 at 4:26 pmWhy were so many pissed at Truman?
July 6th, 2007 at 4:28 pmI wouldn’t hire Bush to cut my lawn… — Comment by MWG
Hilarious. “Shrub” spends most of his free time “clearing brush.” And you still don’t trust him to mow your lawn! Of course, if Bush were hired to mow your lawn (1) he’d tell you it’ll take two hours; (2) he’d still be there after five weeks, but “making progress;” (3) he’d tell you that mowing the lawn will pay for itself by selling the compost and he’d then send you a bill for $55,000; and (4) he would give a medal to the guy he subcontracted to trim the hedges and who accidently burned down your garage.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:28 pm#22. That’s a good one!
July 6th, 2007 at 4:29 pmFunny how Clinton’s lowest approval rating was very near the beginning of his two terms!
July 6th, 2007 at 4:31 pmTo Eskwaya —
Truman’s biggest blow to his popularity came when he fired General MacArthur — which is what really did his popularity in. His unpopularity was enhanced by Sen. Joseph McCarthy, whose political star was rising by making the threat of Communism his personal issue. McCarthy never missed an opportunity to make Truman his scapegoat and to portray him as “soft on the reds”. The American people ate this up — much like the way they have swallowed the whole “War on Terror” bill of goods in this generation.
Time vindicated Truman, though. On many lists, he is regarded as one of the top ten best presidents in our history.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:35 pmre: #24. Yeah. Interesting that it was not the Lewinsky/impeachment period. I wonder what explains that? It was probably that who-does-this-asshole-think-he-is period when the washington elite felt threatened by Clinton’s lack of pedigree.
It could be interpreted a lot of ways. Surprising nonetheless.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:36 pmRemember, he isn’t out yet! I wonder what it will end up being when more of what the Neocon’s have been doing surfaces? I was in a family for more than 26 years who is part of this and their job is to launder Drug and Gun Running criminal money straight into property using Mortgage Fraud with Big Banks. By the way, the Gun Running part is already in the news (ie. Chiquita and Drummond) and the Drug part and who else is involved isn’t well known yet.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:37 pmThanks missmolly. I was at a loss, thinking to myself, World War II was over, etc. and just scratching a lot.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:38 pmIsn’t it funny that this was one of Truman’s biggest blunders, but Bush has forced so many of the “commander on the ground”, he supposedly listens to, to resign and yet, the 26%ers still think he is peachy.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:39 pmI pity whatever candidate the Republicans put up in 2008. He’s going to have to do a lot of running to escape the black hole that is Bush’s popularity.
Cue the democrats: Heckuva a job Bushie!!
July 6th, 2007 at 4:40 pmWell, the only two left for him to outdo would be the liar, Richard M. Nixon and Truman!!
July 6th, 2007 at 4:40 pmIt would also be interesting for the statistics of how long those low poll ratings lasted, because any one of them could be a blip on the screen, but we all know that G.W. Bush has been stuck in the doldrums for many months now.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:40 pmMarty Didier: Thanks for the tip. Let’s check it out….more dirt to come, that’s certain. And when the avalanche of dirty deeds begins to come down the mountain, it’s going to steamroll over all the crooks and liars and flatten them.
July 6th, 2007 at 4:41 pmHere’s the Chiquita and Drummond stuff! Thanks Marty! More corrupt manipulating making the US look like a meddling bunch of greedy ba$tards!
http://news.morningstar.com/ news/ ViewNews.asp?article=/ DJ/ 200706281707DOWJONESDJONLINE001060_univ.xml
July 6th, 2007 at 4:45 pmWoo Hoo! I beat my dad!
July 6th, 2007 at 4:58 pmI believe Shrubya has already broken the record for longest sustained period under 50%.
July 6th, 2007 at 5:01 pmCan we say IMPEACHMENT time?
July 6th, 2007 at 5:03 pmRegarding another King George
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
July 6th, 2007 at 5:04 pmBush-Cheney deny Americans a simple request for government transparency with arrogant response and disingenuous counsel of law meant only to protect ideology, not democratic ideals.
Buzz Lightyear could not have said it any better,
“To Infinity and Beyond!!”
July 6th, 2007 at 5:05 pmThey oughta have a game show with a big spinning wheel that would stop at a particular high crime or misdemeanor, so the audience could vote on which one to impeach with!
July 6th, 2007 at 5:07 pmWheel of Impeachment!
To Eskwaya –
Yes, WWII was over, but the Korean Conflict was going on during Truman’s second term. Toward the end of his term, the war had pretty much stalemated, and the public had grown tired of it. Another negative for HST.
July 6th, 2007 at 5:14 pmISN’T THIS THE GUY THAT SAID TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE - -
- BEST GOVERNMENT MONEY CAN BUY
- THEN TRIES TO SELL OUT SS TELLING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SS
IS A BUNCH OF EMPTY IOU’S, THEN TOURS THE COUNTRY WITH
HIS TOTALLY CORRUPT MOTORCADE TO SELL US OUT DUDE
- ISN’T THIS THE PRESIDENT THAT STATES ECONOMIC RECOVERY
DEPENDS THE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
TO
FRIGGIN
GO
SHOPPING
MORE ???
FRIGGIN IDIOT………
THIS IS ALSO THE POLITICAL PARASITES AND SWINDLER CHENEY WHO
WENT TO CONGRESS DURING THE WEE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING
TO DO SOME
SMOOZING
ARM TWISTING
AND SCRATCHIN
THE FRIGGIN VOTE HELD OPEN TO FRIGGIN 3 AM !!!!!
A BUNCH OF FRIGGIN POLITICAL SWINDLERS DUDE
WHAT A COMPLETE WITH GREASE DUMP FOR FRIGGIN ALL
THESE WONDERFUL SERVICES WE ALL DESPERATELY NEED
AND THE ONLY THING WE FRIGGIN GET IS FRIGGIN CORRUPTION
OOZING DOWN THE SIDES OF THE FRIGGIN DUMP
BECAUSE OF ALL THE FRIGGIN
ARM TWISTING
SMOOZING IT OUT
SCRATCHIN
AND ALL THE FRIGGIN CRIMINAL AND HOODLUM ACTIVITY DUDE
I STAND STRONG - -
WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GET FAR FAR SUPERIOR SERVICE FROM MCDONALD’S
AND FROM THIS POLITICAL PARASITES AND ALL HIS CRONY;S
WE GET THE FRIGGIN GREASE DUMP FOR SERVICE DUDE
LITERALLY A BUNCH OF POLITICAL SWINDLERS DUDE INSIDE THE HIGHEST CLASS HOUSE OF THE LAND
July 6th, 2007 at 5:17 pmIf he’s impeached will his approval rating increase? Let’s find out. The pundicks so enjoy comparing Bush’s unethical behavior to Clinton’s that they should really put “Clinton did it too” to the test.
Could Bush’s impeachment result in no time served or aquittal in the Senate or both? Let’s find out.
Clinton’s low point in approval did not come during the impeachment process. Would that be true for Bush? Let’s find out.
Does lying about National Security result in a harsher punishment than lying about an extra-marital affair? Let’s find out.
July 6th, 2007 at 5:18 pmthe democrat congress ratings are even lower
July 6th, 2007 at 5:23 pmWHAT I’M SAYING DUDE
IS FRIGGIN POLITICAL PARASITES DUDE
FRIGGIN POLITICAL SWINDLERS DUDE
WE THE FRIGGIN PEOPLE GET
THE
FRIGGIN
GREASE
DUMP
FOR SERVICE A BUNCH OF LITERAL POLITICAL HOODLUMS DUDE
July 6th, 2007 at 5:27 pmthe democrat congress ratings are even lower
Comment by Edward R Olbermann — July 6, 2007 @ 5:23 pm
Wow. It took this long for a functional illiterate to try to change the subject to the “democrat(sic) congress”.
The trolls just aren’t even trying these last few days. It must be the end of their term.
July 6th, 2007 at 5:55 pmspit take –
These trolls will always trot out the “congress has lower ratings” blather. They fail to realize two things: 1) the congressional approval rating is also hanging around the mid-20’s, and 2) we disapprove of congress because they aren’t doing enough to take out the trash.
And what is it with the tendency of the far right to use “democrat” as an adjective (as in “democrat congress”)??? Rush does it and so do most of the right wing talking heads — constantly, like they all got the same memo or something. Is this supposed to be insulting? A put down? As a Democrat, I don’t feel insulted — I am just confused about the lack of good grammar.
Would one of the trolls please explain to me why the bad grammar is supposed to be a taunt or an insult to me somehow? Because I truly don’t get it.
July 6th, 2007 at 6:23 pmIt is interesting that Truman was our last president without a college degree, and that Mr. Bush has a Yale MBA.
Like Bush, Doug MacArthur came from a long lineage of family members in his profession. Unlike the Bush clan, the MacArthur clan was highly regarded as embodying the highest standards of the family’s profession.
Unlike Bush, MacArthur actually did create a democracy - in Japan, and a rather socialist one at that, though MacArthur was himself a republican. And MacArthur, literally from his deathbed, warned Lyndon Johnson to stay out of Vietnam. Advice that was not heeded.
As far as the current President’s unpopularity, all I can say is that the current congress has nothing like the statesmanship of the immediate post-WWII generation serving in congress at the time of the Nixon impeachment.
My home state of Arkansas is a perfect example. Contrast our current senators to their predecessors, Senators Fulbright and McClelland. It makes one weep to see how far we have fallen.
My greatest hope is that the influence of the baby boom generation, in business, in politics, and in foreign affairs, will soon start to wane.
July 6th, 2007 at 6:34 pmThey’ll hit Nixon’s rating in another couple of months. All Nancy has to do is put impeachment back on the table and Congress will soar.
July 6th, 2007 at 6:34 pmI sincerely believe that he’ll beat Truman’s numbers. You can’t fool all of the people all of the time. At least his numbers are trending in the right direction.
July 6th, 2007 at 6:53 pmEskwaya and missmolly: another reason for Truman’s low ratings was the right wing smear campaign against him because he wanted to expand Medicare to everyone. Now, that was a damn good idea then and it still is today.
July 6th, 2007 at 7:07 pmBush, Cheney and Rumsfeld will go the way of Augusto Pinochet. There will be countries in which they cannot set foot for fear of being arrested and brought before the World Court to answer for war crimes. Bush might even live out his days on his ranch in Paraquay rather than face charges of treason in the U.S. Twenty years from now very few people will admit to having supported him.
July 6th, 2007 at 7:17 pmThat depends of what the meaning of “worst president ever” is.
July 6th, 2007 at 7:23 pmCongress’ low ratings is due to their lack of impeaching these bastards.
July 6th, 2007 at 7:25 pmCongresses low approval ratings are because:
1. Enabled the war with the spending bill
July 6th, 2007 at 7:41 pm2. Tried to ram through amnesty bill
3. Have taken impeachment off the table
Low ratings for congress are also due to the fact that people don’t understand how congress works. We don’t teach Civics anymore. People commonly display this lack of understanding on this site with their incessant “Impeach the bastards” rhetoric. Again, if you can’t get enough votes to override a veto, you damn well can’t pull off an impeachment. Democrats cannot impeach without the support of republicans, but somehow many of you reserve your anger for Democrats. I find this strange and depressing.
July 6th, 2007 at 7:43 pmCan we have a running bet on how low Pres Bush’s numbers will go?
Saddest thing is, he can always rely on the brain dead trolls who gather at ThinkProgress to show their support for all of his failed policies -no matter the death toll.
July 6th, 2007 at 8:05 pmDon’t be fooled…
…use the Patriot Act…
…to hunt down EVERY Bushite TRAITOR…
…and make THEM pay the price for this illegal invasion and occupation…
…26% my a*s…
…there were a whole lot more Bushite TRAITORS just several months ago…
…and they ALL should be made to pay…
July 6th, 2007 at 8:15 pmHistory goes to those who write it (and control the popular dissemination of that writing) and the people who control that part of our society are not Progressive Democrats. Over the past thirty years I have watched the corporate oligarch media ressurrect Nixon’s reputation, promote an entirely mythical Reagan reputation and continue to smear and belittle Democrats like Kennedy with falsehoods and distortions simply because they can, he’s dead. This poll shows there was a time when Americans innate good sense shined a light, however briefly, in their troubled lives.
July 6th, 2007 at 9:21 pmFine company for the current President.
Harry Truman is the greatest man and the greatest leader on that list.
July 6th, 2007 at 9:38 pmOver the past thirty years I have watched the corporate oligarch media ressurrect Nixon’s reputation, promote an entirely mythical Reagan reputation and continue to smear and belittle Democrats like Kennedy with falsehoods and distortions simply because they can, he’s dead.
No conservative has smeared him at all. Tax cutting defense hawk John Kennedy is no modern Democrat!
July 6th, 2007 at 9:49 pmnot so fast spit taker
July 6th, 2007 at 10:38 pmWHAT! NO CLINTON!
Oh, wait, his approval rating was in the high 60’s during his impeachment.
I long for the good old days when we had peace and prosperity and the only thing the country had to worry about was the impeachment of a popular President.
Now, we have fear and endless war and we have a president with a 26% approval rating and we can’t get him impeached!
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July 6th, 2007 at 10:55 pmI see He’s12 got the memo that right-wingers are supposed to claim that John Kennedy was actually a conservative and Richard Nixon was a Liberal.
And I think they believe it because to them, Conservative = Good and Liberal = Bad. That’s why their claim that “Bush is a liberal” makes perfect sense. They loved his policies until his approval ratings headed south. NOW all of a sudden they’ve discovered that he’s a Borrow-and-Spender, and a Big Government guy and, at 26% approval, they figure that means he’s not really conservative — even though the biggest deficits and the greatest expansions of federal government have all happened under Republican presidents.
July 6th, 2007 at 10:58 pmWhy bother to impeach? Bush is like a cancer growing on the Republic Party. The Republics will never win another election–even if they cheat.
July 7th, 2007 at 6:42 amI see He’s12 got the memo that right-wingers are supposed to claim that John Kennedy was actually a conservative and Richard Nixon was a Liberal.
No, not really, but neither of them were moonbats.
July 7th, 2007 at 9:28 am“No, not really, but neither of them were moonbats.”
Ahhhhh, cutandpaste namecalling! Always elevates the discourse.
July 7th, 2007 at 11:51 amIn all honesty, I don’t really see Bush’s approval ratings going much lower than this. There’s about a quarter of the country who see Bush as a man of God, as a guy they’d like to have a beer with, as a defender of their values, as the very definition of American manliness. They won’t be swayed from their opinion by any number of exposures of his dishonesty, cowardice, or hatred of the principles upon which this country was founded.
July 7th, 2007 at 2:54 pm