Bush’s approval hits new low: 23 percent.
By on Jun 24th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Bush’s approval hits new low: 23 percent.
Only 23 percent of Americans said they approve of President Bush’s job performance in a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg survey, which is a new low for him in that poll. Seventy-three percent of respondents said they disapproved of the job Bush is doing.
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73 percent of the country is unpatriotic and unAmerican, how can this be???
June 24th, 2008 at 9:08 pmWho are these 23%-ers? And what are they so afraid of?
June 24th, 2008 at 9:09 pmHomer - Whoo Hooo
GWB - Doohh
June 24th, 2008 at 9:11 pmLooks like we located those “dead enders” dick was telling us about.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:12 pmwhich troll will win the race
to claim that congress’
approval rating is even lower?
rogerse is a dorkiest troll of them all y’all
so my $ is on him.
good luck.
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June 24th, 2008 at 9:15 pmPoor George, when it rains, it pours! He just lost one of the federal government’s purchasing aces to an affiliate of The Carlyle Group, a politically connected private equity underwriter with a Pennsylvania Avenue address. That revolving door just keeps swinging.
http://peureport.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 06/ carlyle-affiliate-hires-government.html
June 24th, 2008 at 9:19 pmIf that number drops in half “he’ll” catch the murderous and traitorous dead-eye dick cheney.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:21 pmIf that number drops in half he’ll catch the democrat controlled congress.
Like there are no republicans in the House. That poll includes republicans, dipstick.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:22 pmTanqueray Says:
congratulations, you win!
here’s your silver larry craig dildo
and a $5 gift certificate for o’reilly.com.
use them both in good health.
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good luck
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June 24th, 2008 at 9:23 pmRoger and the other idiot trolls must be very proud to be in such an exclusive cub, I wonder if they have a secret handshake and maybe even a clubhouse.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:23 pmThe survey found public approval of President Bush’s job performance at a new low for the Times/Bloomberg Poll: only 23% approved of the job Bush is doing, and 73% disapproved.
A bare majority of 51% of voters said they have a “positive feeling” about the Democratic Party; only 29% said they have a positive feeling about the Republican Party.
LOL!!!
Reich-wingers = pathetic
June 24th, 2008 at 9:24 pmSorry, joe. But thanks for playing! :)
Isn’t it amazing how stupid the trolls must be to think that we, the side of the debate that tends to attract intelligent people, would fall for that idiotic line about “democrat controlled congress”?
June 24th, 2008 at 9:26 pmDon’t misunderestimate the chances of bush breaking the record.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:26 pmAnd he’s earned every percent…
June 24th, 2008 at 9:27 pmDr. Hussein Matt,
tanq didn’t mention anything
about those numbers.
what up with that???
good luck.
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June 24th, 2008 at 9:27 pmWell bush FINALLY found something he can excel at. Being the WORST PRESIDENT EVER!!!
Like always, he succeeds at failure.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:30 pmBush_MUST_Go Says:
Well bush FINALLY found something he can excel at. Being the WORST PRESIDENT EVER!!!
Like always, he succeeds at failure.
ya know you’re right,
he is, after all, the most
successful oil man
who never found oil.
amazing.
*
good luck.
*
June 24th, 2008 at 9:32 pmBush’s approval hits new low: 23 percent.»
And soon to have 60 Articles of Impeachment filed against him.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:33 pmhmm - I think there was maybe supposed to be a decimal point in that number - it is still amazing that there are that many brainless people running around.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:34 pmThe only thing left to say to the reich-wingers:
We told you so!!!!
R O F L
June 24th, 2008 at 9:36 pm#10 - Joe - LOL - it didn’t take long, did it? With goons like LIEberman in congress, it’s no wonder those numbers are so low. We need more people like Jim Webb there
June 24th, 2008 at 9:36 pmmaybe he thinks he’s playing golf - you know, low number wins.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:37 pmIf that’s a new low, what have we been saying 23%’ers for months?
June 24th, 2008 at 9:51 pmUmm….it depends on what one’s definition of the President’s “job” is and what performance metrics apply.
If Bush’s job was to tranfer the common wealth into the hands of an already wealthy few, I’d give him a 95%–job estremely well done!
I can only imagine that the 23% rating is due to Bush’s even more wealthy supporters don’t give their phone numbers out to just anybody and should a pollster call they have staff to hang-up on their behalf.
Maybe I’m wrong.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:52 pmnice one, joe cantwell! Pithy!
June 24th, 2008 at 9:53 pmand nice catch, Dr H Matt.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:55 pmLike father like son, they don’t have a clue and don’t want to get a clue. Be interesting to see the pundits spin this one.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:58 pmHow’s that legacy thing workin’ for ya, Georgie?
And today, this GOPer told the president of the Phillipines that he sees the talent of Phillipine-Americans… from the cook… in the White House kitchen. This news was tripping over the other news that the Justice Department disqualified several applicants based solely on perceived political affiliation.
Thanks to BushCo, I’m embarrassed by my country on a daily basis. Michelle Obama was far more generous than I could be. I’ll be proud of my country again when we finally show these criminal, obstructionist GOPers to the door. In many cases, that door should be one into a prison cell.
PEACE
June 24th, 2008 at 9:59 pmAnd tangueray, no one is talking about Congress which is NOT controlled by Dems, check your numbers, nimrod.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:59 pmI agree with Spencer’s mom, the only good thing happening in America now was the running of a woman and a black man for President. Otherwise I am totally ashamed of what America has become under bush/cheney regime. We have lost so much in civil rights and International credibility, it will take a long time to get where we were 8 years ago.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:03 pmThe real news is that his approval rate is this low, but that it took so long for it to get there.
Of course, with idiots like Tanqueray reliably carrying water for this sorry excuse of an administration, that rate might not get any lower.
(Tanqueray, it’s what happens when first cousins marry and have children)
June 24th, 2008 at 10:04 pmQuestion, what are the 23% drinking
June 24th, 2008 at 10:04 pmOops, I meant to type
“The real news is *not* that his approval rate is this low, but that it took so long for it to get there.”
June 24th, 2008 at 10:05 pmNot that it matters, of course. The Republicans already won the 2008 election.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:07 pmBut David Brooks said the ’surge is working’!
David Broder is predicting the ‘Bush bounce’ any minute!
-GSD
June 24th, 2008 at 10:08 pmI fully believe the rating has been 23% or lower for a long time but has been squelched under the powers that be. A stink has to escape sometime and the stink of this White House is finally coming out.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:08 pm3 of 23% can justifiably say that Bush has done a good job. They would be his “haves and have mores” constituency.
The other 20% are mindless cult-of-Bush idiots who would off themselves if Bush suggested it would help his cause. Some of them even post here.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:09 pmThe mindless idiots all have the glazed eye look to them, I swear conservatives/republicans are short on chromosones. How they can lie with straight faces just amaze me. Olbermann tells of a Washington Post reporting on him with a totally fabricated story and THEY PRINTED IT ! Truly this administration has passed on the no accountability policy to its minions.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:13 pmRemember the thread about Karl Rove and his character at the country club who stood by and gave a steady stream of snide remarks?
George is the guy at the punch bowl with the screwed up face, and the steady stream of stupid remarks….
June 24th, 2008 at 10:19 pmWhere is congress’ approval numbers? Oh right, it’s also in the tank. Voters are clearly not happy with government ineptness, regardless of politics. Home and change indeed.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:20 pmGee, 23 percent…and John McCain just loves himself some Bush.
Barack Obama’s got my vote…and I think I understand why he wants to completely close the “Enron loophole.”
It just occurred to me today how the Republicans have possibly helped the terrorists and endangered U.S. citizens again…this time through the so-called “Enron loophole.”
Think about it.
After Sen. Phil Gramm, in collusion with the late Kenneth Lay of Enron, snuck the “Enron loophole” into law in late 2000, giving Lay and his Enron buddies the opportunity a few short months later in early 2001 to game the West Coast energy markets, causing rolling black-outs and driving up energy costs, an unregulated “Dark Market” involving energy trading was put in place.
For over six years, Republicans in Congress blocked Democratic Party attempts to completely close this “Enron loophole,” which deregulated oversight of both domestic and foreign on-line energy trading. A Democratic-sponsored provision as part of the recent Farm Bill, re-regulates the domestic end, but leaves a gaping “loophole” where foreign energy trading is concerned (no doubt involving another insidious “compromise” with culture of corruption and terrorist-kissing Republicans).
So, what’s the big deal? Besides outrageously high world oil barrel prices and gas pump prices, where’s the terrorist danger in this?
Overseas energy market trading. Unregulated. No oversight. No record-keeping apparently.
What if religious terrorists, recognizing an opportunity to pad their terrorist funds through oil futures speculation, have set up dummy companies or had front-men invest in these “Dark Markets” and have made a killing on oil futures trading?
We need to close the “Enron loophole” completely…RIGHT NOW!!!!
And if any right-wing terrorist attack does occur anytime soon, it will be the Republicans (like Sen. Phil Gramm and the late Kenneth Lay) who will be held responsible, especially if any of the funding for the terrorist attack came from the “Enron loophole.”
June 24th, 2008 at 10:21 pmHi Mr NiceGuy
June 24th, 2008 at 10:23 pmThis always intrigues me. Are you suggesting that the president is doing fine or are you just trying to deflect. Would you like to just discuss the presidents approval ratings and the possible roots of these ratings or would you rather comingle apples and oranges?
My theory, texaslady, is that the country’s leading “conservative” families began lobotomizing their children in the late 40’s.
And, to be fair, the “uniter” has succeeded in “uniting” 3/4 of the country against the other 1/4.
Destruction of the “undecideds”? Mission accomplished.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:24 pmThink about it, what could OBL have done worse than what bush and company have done to America? Someone needs to ask him whose side he is on .
June 24th, 2008 at 10:24 pmThis morning talk had the effects of oxytoxin a brain hormone that can be artificially made. Those without it lack compassion and ability to feel for others. So, perhaps bush people do have a lack of empathy hormone that normal people have. Could be hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:26 pmLet’s get the trolls here, Dubya needs some LUV!
We need to hear how he isn’t the W O R S T
June 24th, 2008 at 10:28 pmP O T U S
E V E R !!!!!!
Sorry, Mr. NiceGuy and all you other Bush apologists, but congress’ numbers are low because of you and your ilk. Obstructionism, playing parliamentary games, placing secret holds on legislation - you show just how little you care for Americans, and just how childish you can be in trying to get your way.
I blame the Dems for not forcing fillibusters, night after night, and for passing funding bills without the withdrawl timetables we elected you to do.
Love my country, loathe the GOP.
PEACE
June 24th, 2008 at 10:28 pmJust out of curiosity, where are Dick Cheney’s numbers now? In fact, where is Dick Cheney now?
June 24th, 2008 at 10:29 pmThe approval rating for Congress historically follows the approval ratings for a President. Oddly, this even holds when one party holds the White House and the other has a majority.
If you really want to form an opinion about how the parties will fair in an election? One must follow the individual campaigns. Back home, there’s a glaring trend. Legislators who have bucked Bushco are doing well. Those who have been rubber stamps might as well look for new jobs. Many of them, of course, can see the inevitability of a November bloodbath and are retiring rather than face humiliating defeat. Good riddance.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:30 pmIf his ratings go any lower, we’ll need a bathysphere to find them.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:36 pmWayne. I think that Dick’s human body is in a tank full of goo in an undisclosed location. The mechanical copies are kept in separate undisclosed locations to confuse terrorists and piss off process servers.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:36 pmIf he goes any lower, this failure may, in fact, find oil there!
June 24th, 2008 at 10:37 pmAdn that 23% should never be allowed to vote again . . . kind of like not letting felons vote.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:43 pm73% disapproval is really high. There is normally about a 10% “no opinion”.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:52 pmMr.NiceGuy Says:
Where is congress’ approval numbers? Oh right, it’s also in the tank. Voters are clearly not happy with government ineptness, regardless of politics. Home and change indeed.
Yes, but when one asks WHY and WHO IN CONGRESS, it points to dissatisfaction at NOT STOPPING BUSH AND THE REST OF THE GOP!!! ROTFL, you’re DUMB!!!
June 24th, 2008 at 10:56 pmWow, he sucks.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:06 pmAnd on the flip side the second poll showing Obama with a double digit lead comes out today.
It must really be a toughshite day for the trolls. Right, MissSweetyPie?
Nice replies to this one haha.
Still, I wonder what the hell the 23% are thinking. We’ll never find out, but with any luck just that 23% will be voting for McCain and not Obama.
Damn, 3/4 of our country disapproves of Bush’s regime…boy, we sure didn’t see this coming 5 years ago when we invaded Iraq. Thanks for the blindfold, but it seems we’re ready to tear it off and become one nation again. Keep fighting for what you believe in, and what you want your children to have. We need this now more than ever to just get off our lazy boys and fight with every fiber of our being.
Good luck to all of you, we will need it.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:08 pmIt’s a tragedy for America that the stupid electorate didn’t wise up before the 2004 election. Bush is no worse now than he was then…he’s just been doing his thing four years longer.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:08 pmAnd Wayne:
Cheney sucks too
June 24th, 2008 at 11:10 pmVery Positive = 6
Somewhat Positive = 17
Neutral = 18
Somewhat Negative = 14
Very Negative = 44
Don’t Know/Unsure = 1
And historians are going to give him a really favorable evaluation?
June 24th, 2008 at 11:11 pmonly in his egoshack at SMU.
RUC. Why is it that every time I see a mention of the “egoshack” , I get this powerful mental image of a dark vault with a few-hundred tons of shredded paper?
June 24th, 2008 at 11:18 pmpete, they finally emptied Cheney’s man sized safe.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:20 pmtexaslady Says:
Like father like son, they don’t have a clue and don’t want to get a clue. Be interesting to see the pundits spin this one.
Just in from Faux News…..
23 out of 100 Americans are “Staying the Course” with the President…..
“George W. [Bush] was born on third, but thinks he hit a triple…” Jim Hightower
June 24th, 2008 at 11:43 pmRemember Topper Harley’s landing at the end of “Hot Shots” (”Just lost a wing…there goes the other one…”)? That’s how the venal chimp is going to land die partie Republikanischer: straight down, gravity assist. We’ll be needing those extinguishers.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:46 pmI don’t think this is an “approval” rating anymore…
June 24th, 2008 at 11:48 pmOh, Zooey, excellent point! Leave it to you to put it into perspective!
PEACE
June 25th, 2008 at 12:07 amIs the chymp’s dick 23% of what it used to be? Ask Laura.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:30 amI didn’t realize we had that many knuckle dragging, bottom feeding, troglodytes in the USA.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:36 amThe thing is, as far as he’s concerned, a very low approval rating and a very high disapproval rating are marks of success. I sh|t you not, this jerk hates the American people and the more we disapprove of him the better he feels about himself and what he’s done. He’s telling Barney about how funny it is that it has taken as long as it has for people to catch on. He’ll be sending all his friends over at fox Halloween baskets for helping to catapult the propaganda.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:02 amWhat!?
The approval rate of a Republican administration hitting rock bottom??
Time to invade another country!!
(Preferably somewhere near oil reserves. The larger the better)
/sarc off
June 25th, 2008 at 2:07 am.
THE W(orst) EVER…
YET GOOD ENOUGH?
.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:35 am.
W T F ?
.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:36 amHooray for Kucinich for having the integrity to ignore that sellout Pelosi, and presenting articles of impeachment against this criminal. A couple more points lower and Charles Manson will have higher approval ratings.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:25 amHad to chant my old, familiar refrain on this one; just couldn’t pass it by:
June 25th, 2008 at 8:31 amImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
…and STILL the Democrats bend over and grab their ankles!
democrats must like it in the ass.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:58 amActually, I’m surprised that it’s not lower!! Obviously, these 23%ers are the wealthy individuals affiliated with the fascist corporations (Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Insurance - Bush’s Holy Trinity of Corruption) who are getting richer at the expense of the Middle Class. Now at least we know precisely who they are - no more hiding criminals!
June 25th, 2008 at 9:43 amThe next Pres. won’t even have to show up, and his ratings will be at least double Gunga-Din Bush’s numbers!
June 25th, 2008 at 10:06 amYet, approval is even lower for the Democrapic Congress! I’m certain their complicity in the telecom immunity travesty will help ensure that their numbers forever stay lower than Bush’s. That must be the goal they’ve set for themselves, afterall, it is the only explanation for their craven, criminal actions to date.
Oh, and the fact is that Congress’ approval ratings are higher from Rethuglicans than from Democraps. Imagine that! A Democrapic Congress that is much less derided by Rethuglicans than by Democrats.
That is what the “leadership” of Reid, Pelosi, and Hoyer brings folks.
They are Republicans, they are the enemy, they are complicit in every illegal act by Bush/Cheney.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:15 amMr.NiceGuy Says:
Where is congress’ approval numbers? Oh right, it’s also in the tank.
Let’s see. The Democrats are elected to a slim majority in Congress because a majority of people want them to stop the insanity of the Republicans. The scumbag Republicans do everything they can to obstruct the will of the people, the totalitarian Republican President vetoes anything that gets past the cynical Republican obstructionists and the jackass Republicans in Congress uphold King George’s vetos.
Then goofball Republicans crow about the low ratings of the Democratic controlled Congress.
And you wonder why nobody with two brain cells to rub together wants to vote Republican anymore.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:30 amWayne A. Schneider Says:
Who are these 23%-ers? And what are they so afraid of?
The truth.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:32 amDick says “So?”
June 25th, 2008 at 10:42 am…….and the lib lead Congress’s approval is……………..
12%
GO NANCY GO!!! Great job to you and the DO NOTHING Congress!
PS Oh, sorry but the great George Bush isn’t unfortunately running this year! TOO BAD!!
June 25th, 2008 at 10:52 amI cannot bash Bush when it appears that the Dems I voted for are just as repulsive. Dennis Kucinich is standing up there alone on his impeachment articles.
If you voted for a Democrat who continues to support funding authorization for Iraq offensive operations, you are just as responsible as Bush is for this ongoing war.
Let’s turn off CNN and FoxNews and support grassroots candidates that really will make some changes. Don’t be swayed by the establishment on who to vote for.
June 25th, 2008 at 11:29 amJohn Kerry Says:
George Bush isn’t unfortunately running this year!
Unlike 2000 and 2004 when Bush was unfortunately running.
June 25th, 2008 at 11:45 am