‘Public animosity’ for Bush hits historic high.
According to a new Washington Post-ABC News survey, “65 percent of Americans disapprove of Bush’s job performance, matching his all-time low.” Only Nixon has “exceeded that level of public animosity,” hitting 66 percent four days before he resigned. Bush has “endured bad numbers” longer than any other president besides Harry Truman.
The Post also notes, “Around the White House, aides make gallows-humor jokes about how they can alienate their remaining supporters — at least those aides not heading for the door.”
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July 25th, 2007 at 10:53 amOnly Nixon has “exceeded that level of public animosity,†hitting 66 percent four days before he resigned.
Give him time. Chimpy still has a year and a half in his presidency, and he’s not one to step down. In that respect, he actually succeeds in making Nixon look good.
Hang on tight, kids….things are going to get a lot worse before they start to get better.
July 25th, 2007 at 10:54 amI’m glad someone is able to eke some humor out of this disaster.
July 25th, 2007 at 10:54 amThe stupid bar is raised once again.
Here in San Antonio Texas, several fundamentalist Christian’s have said they believe George is leading us to the “End of Times”. They aren’t concerned about his popularity. As a matter of fact, they look forward to everything he does.
July 25th, 2007 at 10:55 amBy the way….. I’m leaving Texas……..without Delay.
July 25th, 2007 at 10:56 amIran asks Japan to pay in yen, not dollars for oil purchases, Tokyo, 14 July 2007
$80 a barrel should bring him down soon
July 25th, 2007 at 10:57 amThe stupid bar is raised once again.
Comment by loretta
Wouldn’t that be “lowered”?
July 25th, 2007 at 10:58 amMy fear is what he will DO to raise his popularity or try to “help” those in his party. As isolated as this administration is, within their own National Review bubble, they just might turn to bombing Pakistan or invading Iran as a means to gain political support.
July 25th, 2007 at 10:58 am#4…In which case, armageddon off this bus. It’s fixin’ to crash!
July 25th, 2007 at 10:59 am1% lower than daddy Bush
July 25th, 2007 at 10:59 am#
Iran asks Japan to pay in yen, not dollars for oil purchases, Tokyo, 14 July 2007
$80 a barrel should bring him down soon
Comment by Tobey Tall — July 25, 2007 @ 10:57 am
#
Ouch! Do you have a link to this? Also, have you heard anything on China trading oil in Euros?
July 25th, 2007 at 11:00 amAs a matter of fact, they look forward to everything he does.
Comment by For Whom The Bell Toll
If they’re so sure Georgie is leading us to the End Times, and they’ll be raptured up soon, perhaps they’d care to sell me their houses, cheap, seeing as they’re not going to need them anymore.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:01 ampolls must be wrong , Bush is the most hated guy on the planet
July 25th, 2007 at 11:01 amI don’t think I have ever agreed with the fundies before but I do think Bush might be leading us to the end times.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:02 amaides make gallows-humor jokes
fill us in! … i’d like to pass some of those around…
July 25th, 2007 at 11:02 am…
Instead of thinking about buying houses and making money, perhaps we can focus that attention to fixing this problem….first.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:03 am“Around the White House, aides make gallows-humor jokes about how they can alienate their remaining supporters — at least those aides not heading for the door.â€
They’ll figure out some way to do it. Never underestimate good ol’ American ingenuity. .
July 25th, 2007 at 11:05 amMessage from America - The Bush crime family needs to be expunged from US politics….FOREVER !
July 25th, 2007 at 11:05 amAhh, the legacy.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:06 amContempt of Congress citations hearing is in progress. Anyone watching it?, besides me?
July 25th, 2007 at 11:06 amWhere arte the Trolls this morning defending their “Fearless” leader? OH, yea, polls don’t mean nuthin’ just a bunch of numbers.
Must really suck to be a member of the Dubya Fan Club now.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:06 amYa see…I can’t actually volunteer to go fight in the Armageddon since I’m gonna be Raptured up any day now. I’ll stay here and work on my MBA until then. Jesus understands. Fundie Chickenhawk logic.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:06 amThis is another golden opportunity for someone inside the republican party to call for a change. As long as the person wasn’t knee deep in the filth strewn about by these thugs they’ll shine.
No true leaders in the republican party to do this? Maybe Ron Paul will turn more heads. (towards, not away).
republicans chew with their mouths open.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:09 amemerald sez:
As Patton Oswalt said, “I don’t think Bush wants to be the President…as much as he wants to be The Last President“.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:09 amThe interesting question is not how high the disapproval will go - if it goes higher, it’ll be because he’s alienated the far-right authoritarian base.
What’s interesting is how deep the disapproval goes, especially among independents. Sustained high general disapprovals will probably add depth to the loathing this country feels for this guy - and only a fool thinks that won’t rub off on his party, which is, by virtue of its base, incapable of doing anything but cheerleading the positions that made the rest of the country so vigorously disapprove of him in the first place.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:09 am#22 I’ll stay here and work on my MBA until then. Jesus understands. Fundie Chickenhawk logic.
Comment by Menehune
Would that be an MBA from Yale, just like ol’ Daddy bought for Lil’ Georgie? Thought so.
Also, why ain’t you at the Mall? We iz all sposed to be shoppin’ til the Rapture comes, didn’t ya get the memo?
July 25th, 2007 at 11:10 amDon’t worry about what he will do to raise his popularity. He doesn’t care, that should be clear. Worry very very much about what he will do because he thinks God wants him to do it. Very very much.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:10 amWTF?!? Who makes up the other 35%? Inbred, fundy morons? Even those freaks have to be dreaming of the good ole days with Nixon and Bush I.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:12 amWe must stress that this unpopularity is not an irrational hatred nor just a sophmoric reaction by a public with a high-school level mentality. Bush is unpopular for concrete, demonstrable, rational REASONS.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:12 am#6 ~ That’s the clearest signal I could possibly think of that war is imminent with Iran.
These are incredibly dangerous times.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:12 amWithin 1% point of 4 of the last 7 presidents and within 6% points of 5 of the last 7 presidents.
Your “Bush is the worst president in history hysteria” is way overblown. Especially when you compare Bush’s numbers to Trumans (who history has treated kindly).
Bush, like Truman, has decided to tackle tough problems instead of handing them off, for someone else to do the heavy lifting.
Apparently, by the looks of Clintons numbers, the surest way to popularity, is to do nothing of consequence.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:15 amBush Sr. - 64%
Bush Jr. - 65%
is that an example of evolution? The Bush family’s disapproval ratings are increasing with each generation. Watch out Bush twins!
July 25th, 2007 at 11:19 am11 - Chris L
Iranian Oil Bourse on wikipedia
July 25th, 2007 at 11:20 amChris L
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Oil_Bourse
July 2007 - Iran asked Japan to pay for its oil purchases in Japanese Yen
March 2007 - China’s state-run Zhuhai Zhenrong Corp, the biggest buyer of Iranian crude worldwide, began paying for its oil in euros late last year.
March 2007 - Iraqis traveling to Iran will pay for a visa in euros in line with other Iran Embassy locations.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:23 amLike grandfather, like grandson, overthrowing the U.S. government, like Hank Jr. said, it’s just an old family tradition. What they cannot win they will scheme and plot, and the heck with the poor peasants who are here to only serve the elite.
Fascism, is just an old, family tradition.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ radio4/ history/ document/ document.shtml
The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:24 amsee dad, I told you I’d outdo ya!
July 25th, 2007 at 11:24 amArab League delegation visits Israel
JERUSALEM - The foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan began a historic visit to Israel on Wednesday to formally present an Arab peace plan, saying they were extending “a hand of peace” on behalf of the region.
The ministers arrived as representatives of the Arab League, the first time the 22-member group has sent a delegation to the Jewish state. The Arab League peace plan envisions full recognition of Israel in return for evacuation of lands captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
“We are extending a hand of peace on behalf of the whole region to you, and we hope that we will be able to create the momentum needed to resume fruitful and productive negotiations” between Israel and the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world, Jordan’s foreign minister, Abdul-Ilah Khatib, said at a news conference with Israeli President Shimon Peres.
http://news.yahoo.com/ s/ ap/ 20070725/ ap_on_re_mi_ea/ mideast;_ylt=AsBjO3RPOaZydmJ8p3Hra95vaA8F
July 25th, 2007 at 11:25 amWell when are we gonna get told WTF the goal is ?
He’s not resigning. The Democrats aren’t impeaching him.
I assume that one Nepalese sherpa left who wasn’t aware Bush was unpopular now knows so. So WTF is the goal of post # 4873 in this series of repeating the same information ?
FFS write to the Franklin mint if you want and encourage them not to put his head on plates. Apart from that the only goal here is apparently to remind you bunch of goldfish WTF you forgot from 48 hours ago when you were last told.
Seriously you have this same post 3 times a week, get a hundred or so comments on every one and I’m yet to see any of em say “no shit, tell us something we don’t know”.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:26 amEasily distracted.
I would feel much better if the worst president ever cared about these numbers. But alas, it appears he doesn’t give a shit, which is worrisome.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:27 amIf you find that worrisome, how do you feel about a bunch of people who’ve been told this 3 times a week for 5 years or so and not noticed yet ?
July 25th, 2007 at 11:32 amGet ready for Marshall law.
I would feel much better if the worst president ever cared about these numbers. But alas, it appears he doesn’t give a shit, which is worrisome.
Comment by Roket — July 25, 2007 @ 11:27 am
He is upbeat and unconcerned. A former Reagan official warns of Marshall law and detention of citizens in the wake of some unspecified catastrophic event. A REAGAN official. I am not particularly paranoid but their own people have been hinting to us to get ready. Recent Executive orders to confiscate the property of those who interfere with the Iraq war (you know, like say you want us out of Iraq) could lead to large numbers of arrests at demonstrations.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:35 amWe have conferred with neighboring (to Iran) states about our future plans for invading Iran. That’s why they ain’t worried. Plan “B” is about o be implemented. They will not give up power easily, or willingly.
Funky,
July 25th, 2007 at 11:44 amEven some lefties refuse to see what’s happening. Yesterday a guy called into the Ed Shultz Show and told him about Bush’s Executive Order to freeze the assets of individuals who threaten destabilization efforts in Iraq. Ed Shultz told the guy to stop reading those fringe websites and HUNG UP on the caller!!!!
Apparently, even Ed Schultz has his head in the sand and soesn’t beleive this can happen in our country!!! I’m amzed there are still people who talk from the left who are too freaking afraid to COMPREHEND what these guys in the WHite House have planned for this country.
Ed quotes from this website often but I guess he still views it as fringe. Thanks for helping us, Ed!!!
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=937
July 25th, 2007 at 11:47 amComment by Katrina — July 25, 2007 @ 11:44 am
I used to listen to Ed online, and I thought he was pretty aware (even though he sounds just like Rush). I haven’t heard him lately.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:50 amSenator Feingold has a website he’s involved with that is soliciting comments from citizens. I wrote about my concerns with the recent executive orders. I understand the Congress has thirty days to challenge such orders, but I am not clear on the law. I hope Senator Feingold checks this out and does something other than offer a censure resolution.
Today I will contact my own (Fla) reps about this.
If you adjust the figures for apathy, Dubya’s already won.
In the summers of 1973 and 1974, it seemed like everybody in the country was paying attention to the unfolding of the Watergate scandal. The three major networks rotated gavel to gavel coverage of Senate hearings and House Judiciary Committee discussions of impeachment, and people watched. 66% of Americans disapproved of Nixon’s performance, and this was from an INFORMED populace.
Today, more people care about Melinda Doolittle being voted off American Idol than they care about high crimes and misdemeanors from the White House. Yet, even with this complacency, Bush has still managed to garner a 65% disapproval rating. Imagine if he was being rated by the Americans of 1974!
July 25th, 2007 at 11:53 amEd is a centrist, has some progressive leanings, but can be a real ass at times.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:00 pmHanging up on a caller who brings up the executive order qualfies as ass-centric.
I just feel helpless. I read ALL of the blogs including the rightie blogs. The information about what’s planed for us is there (damn, just look up the PNAC!!) but most of the people in this country are sleeping. They don’t want to know what’s happening. The obvious truth is the ONLY way Bush will ever get out of being so hated is another terror attack which the White House and press are saying is imminent!
Yesterday I watched the Senate hearings and was so angry. However, the CBS Evening News didn’t even make it one of their top 5 stories!!
Katie Couric ran a 45 second brief (and didn’t even tell us Gonzo LIED THROUGH HIS TEETH) and went on to some derogatory story about the Democrat presidential candidates. I used to like her but now I despise that stupid broad and the corporations that pay her enormous salary!
Then we have Ed Schultz hanging up on callers when they try to relay legitimate information to him!! WTF? Writing to our representatives doesn’t do one bit of good. They aren’t reading our letters or listing to thier voicemail. They’ve either been blackmailed or threatened to ignore us.
God help us!
July 25th, 2007 at 12:04 pmI recognize Schultz as a centrist. However, he is now pushing for Impeachment so I thought we might depend on him to let callers give him (and other listeners) pertinent information.
Anybody ever wonder why even the left wing broadcasteres never mention the PNAC?
July 25th, 2007 at 12:09 pmJust like you body, your mind needs exercise, too.
Rush is on from 12-3pm est. Here’s a link to listen live:
http://www.640wgst.com/pages/listenlive.html
If you’ve never listened, you can prove to yourself how much a bigot, homophobe, racist and sexiest he really is. Or you can depend on liberal partisans for all your information.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:11 pmupside00: You’re a big believer in polls; here’s some poll results. Do you feel that they are significant?
http://rasmussenreports.com/ public_content/ politics/ americans_see_liberal_media_bias_on_tv_news
July 25th, 2007 at 12:18 pmPaul,
July 25th, 2007 at 12:19 pmI always listen to the opposition so I know what they’re saying. Rest assured, I’m pretty well-rounded in the information department. I do all my own internet research as well. I don’t just depend on TP and Buzzflash for the correct info (although they are always right on the money). Hell, if it weren’t for the internet, I’d be as dumb as the rest of the sheeple making their way through traffic every day.
#48 I listen to the rusher for comedic relief, both in knowing he doesn’t really believe half the shit he flings out, but also laughing at the ditto heads that don’t know that and hang on his every word.
Makes for great entertainment, and that is exactly what he and billo and hanniteehee are…. entertainers, just like howard stern.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:20 pmSome of GWB’s firsts:
1st case of espionage in the White House
1st security breach of White House press room
Presided over the biggest intelligence failure in U.S. history
Worst response ever by a federal disaster agency
highest incidents of suspected election fraud
biggest deficit ever
1st institutional use of torture…
highest disparity of wealth in US history…
largest increase in poverty since the depression…
1st loss of entire major US city…
largest exodus of career experts in every branch of the administration due to crony/idealogue appointments, from CIA to DOJ to EPA to NWS…
In his first two years in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.
Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
Members of Bush Administration are the richest administration in history.
First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history.
Cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any president in U.S. history.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases.
First president in U.S. history to attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
First U.S. president in history to have a majority of people in Europe (over70%) view his presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
the biggest security failure in the history of the United States (In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks, he has successfully prevented any public investigation into)
first cokehead in the White House
first National Guard deserter
first convicted criminal
lost more jobs in his first year than any President in history
broke more international treaties than any in history
lowest job growth in American history
more debt than all previous President’s combined (WHOA!!!)
first administration to out a CIA agent for partisan reasons
largest worldwide protests against the Iraq War
presided over the worst terror attack in world history
first President since the Civil War to lose an American city
spying on his people more than any administration since Stalin
first President to use a wire
first President on antidepressants (& God know what else)
more vacation time than any other
First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history. Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.
Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history.
Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have. Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
The most secretive and un-accountable of any administration in U.S. history.
Presided over the biggest corporate stock market frauds of any market in any country in the history of the world.
Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history.
First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the human rights commission.
Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.
First president in U.S. history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history.
Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history. First president in U.S. history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1).
First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government.
First U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling huge investments in corporations that bid for government contracts.
In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the U.S. has ever been since the civil war.
For the first time in our history, a significant number of administration officials and supporters, including perhaps the President himself, must keep themselves and their party in power to avoid criminal indictment, conviction, and imprisonment.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:26 pmGO REPUBLICANS!
In this case is “animosity” synonomous with “disgust”??
July 25th, 2007 at 12:29 pmMakes for great entertainment, and that is exactly what he and billo and hanniteehee are…. entertainers, just like howard stern.
Comment by upside00 — July 25, 2007 @ 12:20 pm
Bingo!
July 25th, 2007 at 12:31 pmIf you want information, go somewhere else. Throw Savage Weiner in there too. I listen to several of these guys, get worked up, then I go pound on the drums. It’s therapeutic and gets rid of that pissed off feeling. Sometimes, the more letters I write, the angrier I get. It seems ALMOST futile.
#49 I believe that people think that is so, because that is what they are told to think by the rover’s machinery. That doesn’t change that that is the perception.
I never watch network tv anyway, except for some sporting events.
All news is biased anymore, just to what degree, is the question. I do my own research and travel outside the US so I get a good view, and it is NOT GOOD, that is for sure. Dubya is disliked and feared more in Europe then he is here.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:32 pmWe hate Bush because of his freedoms!
July 25th, 2007 at 12:32 pmhttp://www.audio-bible.com/bible/revelation_16.html
July 25th, 2007 at 12:33 pm12 ¶ And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 ¶ And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
funky, I listen to many of them as well, both R and L leaning people, but it only gets more scary when you understand that there are people who actully Do get their ‘news’ from those sources. Like everything else today, they want it pre-packaged so their heads don’t hurt from actully having to think.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:35 pmYet they somehow still managed to be more informed than those people who get their news from blogs like this one.
Information that was for some inexplicable reason posted here. As though it was positive.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:40 pmHey GoTFreedumbyet,
July 25th, 2007 at 12:41 pmCould you translate that into every English?
Every DAY english!!
July 25th, 2007 at 12:42 pm#58 Yet they somehow still managed to be more informed than those people who get their news from blogs like this one.
Information that was for some inexplicable reason posted here. As though it was positive.
Comment by Kilo
WTF is this supposed to mean? What was posted?
And I have NEVER said that this is a news source. That is only for you folks that get yours from billo’s blog or from matt’s dredge (Which BTW, is the best source for Lindsay Lohan news, was his lead story most of the day yesterday.)
July 25th, 2007 at 12:48 pmfirst cokehead in the White House
first National Guard deserter
first convicted criminal
lost more jobs in his first year than any President in history
broke more international treaties than any in history
lowest job growth in American history
more debt than all previous President’s combined (WHOA!!!)
first administration to out a CIA agent for partisan reasons
largest worldwide protests against the Iraq War
presided over the worst terror attack in world history
first President since the Civil War to lose an American city
spying on his people more than any administration since Stalin
first President to use a wire
first President on antidepressants (& God know what else)
more vacation time than any other (which is a blessing for the country, really)
First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history. Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.
Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history.
Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have. Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
The most secretive and un-accountable of any administration in U.S. history.
Presided over the biggest corporate stock market frauds of any market in any country in the history of the world.
Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history.
First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the human rights commission.
Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.
First president in U.S. history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history.
Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history. First president in U.S. history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1).
First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government.
First U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling huge investments in corporations that bid for government contracts.
In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the U.S. has ever been since the civil war.
For the first time in our history, a significant number of administration officials and supporters, including perhaps the President himself, must keep themselves and their party in power to avoid criminal indictment, conviction, and imprisonment.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:53 pmSo. I thought TP already reported this a few days ago.
non-story
July 25th, 2007 at 12:53 pmI just decided I like Donald Trump again. This is AMAZING!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a30rJQbDDno
July 25th, 2007 at 12:55 pmComment by Perry Logan — July 25, 2007 @ 12:53 pm
He cut taxes! :>)
July 25th, 2007 at 12:59 pm#
Hey GoTFreedumbyet,
Could you translate that into every English?
Comment by dharma — July 25, 2007 @ 12:41 pm
#
Every DAY english!!
Comment by dharma — July 25, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
July 25th, 2007 at 1:00 pmSure. its easy to read and understand.
start with the first sentence.
we all know the river Euphrates is in Iraq.
Read what it says about the sixth Angel.
I,ll translate the Seventh later.
THE SURGE IS WORKING! SURGE ON! 20% approval / 70% disapproval can’t be far away! Cue the trolls…”but congress has a worse rating (whine, whine)” in 3……2……1……..
July 25th, 2007 at 1:02 pmPaul, your comparison of Bush to Truman is strained at best. Truman was unpopular for a variety of reasons - the middle and right hated him because he fired the most popular military General next to Ike at the time. The left was angry with him because he had dropped two a-bombs on Japan at a time when they were attempting to surrender and incinerated Dresden. But, remember please that people admired him personally because of his blue-collar background and his motto, “The Bush Stops Here.”
Bush, by comparison, is disliked or reviled because he is personally responsible for the biggest military and strategic blunder in the last 50 years. He is disliked because, unlike Truman, he will not step up and accept responsibility for mistakes and, unlike Truman, he presides over lawlessness and disrespect for the consitution. Truman, by comparison, was brave enough to insist on war profiteering investigations even when his own party ran Congress and the Presidency. He is also seen as visionary by many because he advocated extending Medicare to all Americans.
Bush isn’t even close to Truman’s league.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:03 pmI’m sorry, Truman’s motto should have read “The Buck Stops Here.”
July 25th, 2007 at 1:04 pmYou know that poll from a couple of years ago that said Daily Show viewers were more informed than etc.
It was this years.
Rush Limbaugh listeners and Fox news near the top.
Bill Oreilly viewers near the bottom.
Followed by people who read news blogs.
Someone decided to post that here as though it reflected worse on Bill Oreilly.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:05 pm#70 And why should we care about any of that? I don’t pay attention to any of them, other than for a few laughs.
Back on Topic, OK? This is about Dubya’s implosion.
And do you and Paul still have your Bush/Cheney04 stickers on your pickups? Most of your ilk have secretly scraped them off and have denied ever voting for him!
July 25th, 2007 at 1:11 pmDharma,
July 25th, 2007 at 1:25 pmThe Seventh Angel is Dealing with America.
America IS the Armageddon.
Read Chapter 18 if you have the time.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:26 pmhttp://www.audio-bible.com/bible/revelation_18.html
To think Bush is so low and the Democrats don’t have the balls to impeach. What a bunch of spineless cowards they are.
DEMOCRATS ARE COWARDS!!! They won’t even push for impeachment when Bush is lower than Nixon!!! LOL!!!
July 25th, 2007 at 1:26 pmSkip Chapter 17 for now. I Will have to Explain that one later.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:27 pmFor now, We MUST GET OUT of America, Before The Great Earthquake.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:28 pmThe Seventh Angel is Dealing with America.
America IS the Armageddon.
Comment by GoTFreedumbyet?
And all this time I thought the 7th angel was Lindsey Lohan!!
July 25th, 2007 at 1:40 pmRemember folks, these numbers have impact on just one important group; those Republicans in Congress running for re-election. In order to remove Bush and Gang from power you must have the votes in Congress. Without a number of Republicans it won’t happen.
The trade-off is loyalty to Bush vs getting re-elected. I am sure Bush and his people are keeping up the pressure on Republicans in Congress by telling them not to hurt the Party, but at some point the Republicans up for re-election are going to start thinking that it might be better for the Party to just get rid of Bush than keep him in place.
The poll numbers are like a disease spreading out from the Whitehouse can contaminating Republicans. At some point, Republican members of Congress will understand that they have to remove the cause of this disease before they also are infected.
Hint: start sending these poll numbers to any Republican running for re-election and do so each week. You don’t have to write a letter or anything with the poll, just send the numbers.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:41 pmGod Help Us: “They won’t even push for impeachment when Bush is lower than Nixon!!! LOL!!!”
Nixon’s wasn’t impeached, but resigned instead because it became clear to him that Republicans in congress were going to go along with an impeachment. Even though there are arguably many more reasons to impeach this president, Republicans have made it clear that they will not cooperate. Democrats are smart, not cowardly. Why even proceed with an impeachment hearing which has no chance of succeeding?
July 25th, 2007 at 1:42 pmSluggo, the other thing Democratic stratigists must do is use the Republican obstruction as an election tool. Every voter should be told that Republicans blocked healthcare for children as a political move to deny Democrats any legislative victories in congress. Every Republican trying to keep his office should be asked by voters why he voted to obstruct a measure which would help children with healthcare.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:45 pmNote that even in his worst days, Bill Clinton ranked highest of all the Presidents listed.
It’s going to be so glorious to see Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Bill O’Reilley’s (et at.) heads explode!!!!
HILLARY ‘08!!!!!!!!
July 25th, 2007 at 2:26 pmOne thing’s for sure, Limbaugh’s drug addictions are causing his brain to melt, and this one example from the supposedly “brilliant” political commentator should forever discredit this Chickenhawk & media whore
Rush Rips The NY Times For NOT Being Wrong
If Limbaugh is so wrong about something as basic as a politician at the national level’s race, that forever brands him as the most easily-debunked of W’s media lackeys/whores
But I’d be remiss in not thanking Rush for making such vicious sport of Michael Fox’s Parkinson’s Syndrome, after all, that’s what gave Claire McCaskill her Senate seat, and with it, Dems control of the Senate
“Mission Accomplished” Indeed!
July 25th, 2007 at 2:55 pmThe WP and TP is caught spreadingt lies again. According to Gallup, Jimmy Carter has the lowest approval rating was 28%. Much lower than Bush.
July 25th, 2007 at 3:59 pmTarnation, memphis miinie, y’all need to work on y’alls readin skills. This little dittie is about disapproval numbers, not approval numbers. Those yankees be figurin n cypherin somthin fierce up there.
July 25th, 2007 at 4:44 pmGo Truman!
July 25th, 2007 at 4:53 pmJack Ripper, let me help with your math skills. That’s a 72% disapproval rating for Mr Carter. Glad to help.
July 25th, 2007 at 5:51 pmmemphis minnie - no it’s not. you forgot about “undecided” or “no opinion”. don’t you feel stupid now?
July 25th, 2007 at 7:21 pmBut… but… Congress!! And… and… Carter!! Clinton!!
July 25th, 2007 at 9:49 pmJust like you body, your mind needs exercise, too.
Rush is on from 12-3pm est. Here’s a link to listen live:
http://www.640wgst.com/pages/listenlive.html
comment by Paul
I can’t think of many people who need physical exercise as well as a drug-free mind more than Rush.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:35 am