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| Posted by: HECK! | | Bush's approval rating hits new low
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's public approval rating has fallen to 32 percent, a new low for his presidency, a CNN poll showed on Monday.
The survey also showed that 60 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Bush is handling his job.
Bush's poll numbers have languished below 40 percent in the last couple of months, hit by growing public opposition to the Iraq war, his support for a now-abandoned plan for a Dubai firm to take over major U.S. port operations and American anger over gas prices now topping $3 a gallon at the pump.
Continuing fallout from the Bush administration's mishandling of the initial response to Hurricane Katrina has also hurt his popularity.
Bush's approval rating as measured by CNN's poll dropped from 36 percent in March. His lowest job performance measure has been 32 percent, in a Fox News poll this month.
Bush has launched a shake-up of his White House staff in an effort to revive his popularity and stave off concerns of fellow Republicans that they could lose control of both houses of Congress in a November midterm election.
Bush's response to the gas crisis has been to warn Americans to expect a tough summer, vow that price gouging will not be tolerated and try to promote energy alternatives that will take years to get to consumers.
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| Posted by: HECK! | | 32% wow.
Anyone notice that as Dubya's numbers continue to fall, so does the number of staunch right-wing Dubyanauts from certain mesasge boards? Talk about jumping horses in midstream.
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| Posted by: Inner City Blues | |
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HECK said this in post #2 :
32% wow.
Anyone notice that as Dubya's numbers continue to fall, so does the number of staunch right-wing Dubyanauts from certain mesasge boards? Talk about jumping horses in midstream.
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To me it seems like they're leaving the boards because now they can't defend the president with talking points without looking foolish. Didn't two staunch conservatives just leave the board? 
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| Posted by: EUCLID | | You liberals should realize that not everybody who is down on Bush agrees with you. You're naturally down on him because you believe he is conservative. But an awful lot of conservatives are down on him because they think he is a liberal. So his popularity is down for two diametrically opposed reasons. It's not too often that happens. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: EUCLID | | Speaking of the gas price crisis, what would you folks do about it if you were suddenly king? Nobody likes high prices, but what do you do? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Inner City Blues | |
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EUCLID said this in post #5 :
You liberals should realize that not everybody who is down on Bush agrees with you. You're naturally down on him because you believe he is conservative. But an awful lot of conservatives are down on him because they think he is a liberal. So his popularity is down for two diametrically opposed reasons. It's not too often that happens. |
Actually, the President being conservative has nothing to do with me not liking him. Bad domestic policies, lying about a war, overreaching Executive power, runaway deficits, those are only a few of the things that make this president a bad president. You don't have to be a conservative for me to dislike you; moreover, it's kind of stupid to think that you should like someone because they are conservative or liberal.
We can have good conservative and liberal presidents. We can have bad conservative and liberal presidents. The key here isn't their political leaning, it's whether they're good or bad. But I'm sure you think conservatism equals fiscal responsibility and because the president spends so much money, that makes him liberal. That's a rather stupid assessment because it's not how much you spend that denotes liberalism or conservatism, it is how the money is spent.
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| Posted by: Lawless | | EXACTLY! I love how people ASSUME why we don't like him!!!
We've had republican presidents that I've liked. Bush jr is a putz... plain and simple, and he's screwed a lot of things up. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: oneofpeace | | EUCLID is displaying the typical right-winged rhetoric here. Whenever someone doesn’t agree with their philosophies by default you’re label liberal. It would appear that even when Bush is having issues even within his own party by weakening their chances of controlling “the Hill” they will turn on him as well.
Newsflash EUCLID, Bush’s poll numbers are in the toilet because those that voted for him are now disenchanted with his job performance. It doesn’t mean they’re “Liberal” the right loves to label people that, it doesn’t mean they’re “leftist” and it most certainly doesn’t mean they’re not patriotic. It simply means he’s having less success at fooling the public. This isn’t liberal or conservative, right nor left, it’s just the way it is. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: EUCLID | |
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oneofpeace said this in post #9 :
EUCLID is displaying the typical right-winged rhetoric here. Whenever someone doesn’t agree with their philosophies by default you’re label liberal.
Newsflash EUCLID, Bush’s poll numbers are in the toilet because those that voted for him are now disenchanted with his job performance. It doesn’t mean they’re “Liberal” the right loves to label people that, it doesn’t mean they’re “leftist” and it most certainly doesn’t mean they’re not patriotic. This isn’t liberal or conservative, right nor left, it’s just the way it is. |
I think you stopped reading my post when you got to the second word, "liberal." OK so you're not a liberal, and neither is Lawless and ICB. But there is such a thing as right and left, and it is true that Republicans are generally right and Democrats are generally left. It is also true that the ideologies of right and left are diametrically opposed.
My only point was that people on the right and left find themselves in agreement about not liking Bush while being in total disagreement about almost everything else. What this means is that if you don't like Bush, and his approval rating is at 30%, it would be a mistake to conclude that 70% are in general agreement with you on political issues.
Example: Some on the left dislike Bush because he took us to war. Some on the right dislike Bush because he is trying to be too politically correct while fighting a war.
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| Posted by: HECK! | | What's funny is, or not funny rather, I filled up for $3.12 the other day. In So Cal it's been over $3 for weeks now. I drive a sedan, but my buddy has a F-250 and it cost about $70 to fill up.
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| Posted by: Lawless | | I drive a Saturn and it costs me about $30 to fill up... some times a few dollars more. My mom drives a Lincoln Navigator, and whewie... it is like $80 to fill that beast up. My cousins Excursion is over $100 to fill up.
 I might like those big things... but driving a gas conservative car pays off. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: AZIdolfan | |
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HECK said this in post #14 :
That's why I want a moped.
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Better yet, why not have George drive the moped and let us use his expense paid limos.
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| Posted by: Inner City Blues | | Poor George, as if I care though, I think his poll numbers are just reflecting his true mediocrity as a president and only the die-hards support him. Too bad all the supporters jumped ship on IR.
I predict if the president gets back to the 50's, you'll see some familiar faces return. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | ICB- I was thinking the same thing. The vines are empty in Bush jungle. But watch out, they're out there... lurking, waiting to swing back in...
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| Posted by: h@ts | | Bush's disintigration in the US is being mirrored by Blair's government here in Britain, who seem to have pressed the self-destruct button. Trust between government and the public is at an all-time low. The only saving grace for Blair (and no doubt Bush) is the mediocrity of the opposition parties. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: EUCLID | | A new poll shows that a third party candidate who cracked down on border enforcement would get more votes than any Republican or Democrat. Hello third party! | | Reply To this Message
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EUCLID said this in post #19 :
A new poll shows that a third party candidate who cracked down on border enforcement would get more votes than any Republican or Democrat. Hello third party! |
Immigration, immigrants, and foreigners in general seem to becoming less and less popular everywhere these days. What optomistic and hopeful times we are living through 
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| Posted by: EUCLID | |
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h@ts said this in post #20 :
Immigration, immigrants, and foreigners in general seem to becoming less and less popular everywhere these days. What optomistic and hopeful times we are living through |
We have always had immigration. This current debacle is not about immigration. It's about officially allowing massive, illegal immigration for the economic and political gain of special interests at the expense of the American people. It is a unique and hideous chapter in American history.
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| Posted by: h@ts | |
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EUCLID said this in post #21 :
We have always had immigration. This current debacle is not about immigration. It's about officially allowing massive, illegal immigration for the economic and political gain of special interests at the expense of the American people. It is a unique and hideous chapter in American history. |
Whatever problems immigration is or isn't when we start blaming the immigrants themselves, who only want a better life, which is hardly a crime, then the debate is about something else.
If the debate is anything like the one in the UK then it's about pandering to people's prejudices for votes. Whipping up fear is an age old political tool. Stuff like war, drugs, crime, immigration, foreigners, the internet etc etc are all very useful to politicians so they can either be seen to get "tough" on or go to "war" with more than their opponents.
The media has to take some credit for its part in whipping up this kind of hysteria.
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| Posted by: EUCLID | |
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h@ts said this in post #22 :
when we start blaming the immigrants themselves, who only want a better life, which is hardly a crime, then the debate is about something else.
it's about pandering to people's prejudices for votes. |
I blame Congress and especially Bush. I don't blame anybody for merely wanting a better life, which may be hardly a crime, as you say, but crossing the border illegally is a substantial crime.
You keep bringing it back to race and prejudice. To the extent that it is about that, it is being made into that by the advocates of amnesty. They craft a message that if you are not for amnesty, you must be racist. It is a label used as a stick to keep people from congregating around the anti-amnesty position. Of course, they don't directly charge the term, racist. Instead they label their adversaries as anti-immigrant or anti-foreigner.
As I mentioned before, the argument is about the economics of the U.S. middle class who have their hands full with the cost of everything going up while wages go down.
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| Posted by: Inner City Blues | |
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EUCLID said this in post #24 :
I blame Congress and especially Bush. I don't blame anybody for merely wanting a better life, which may be hardly a crime, as you say, but crossing the border illegally is a substantial crime. |
Crossing the border is no significant crime. Now shooting somebody, that's a significant crime. 
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EUCLID said this in post #24 :
As I mentioned before, the argument is about the economics of the U.S. middle class who have their hands full with the cost of everything going up while wages go down. |
Wages are not being driven down by immigrants, look the other way on your economic scale.
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| Posted by: EUCLID | |
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Inner City Blues said this in post #25 :
Wages are not being driven down by immigrants, look the other way on your economic scale. |
Could you elaborate?
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