The floor drops just a little further

April 7, 2006

Let’s see, Bush has been caught leaking classified information, Republicans can’t pass a budget, Tom DeLay has resigned, and they’re fighting amongst themselves over immigration. What could make the day a little better? How about the latest [tag]poll[/tag]ing data?

President Bush’s [tag]approval ratings[/tag] hit a series of new [tag]low[/tag]s in an [tag]AP-Ipsos[/tag] poll that also shows Republicans surrendering their advantage on national security grim election-year news for a party struggling to stay in power.

[tag]Democrat[/tag]ic leaders predicted they will seize control of one or both chambers of Congress in November. Republicans said they feared the worst unless the political landscape quickly changes.

“These numbers are scary. We’ve lost every advantage we’ve ever had,” GOP pollster Tony Fabrizio said. “The good news is Democrats don’t have much of a plan. The bad news is they may not need one.”

And this was before the public heard about the president leaks of classified information as political weapons.

* Approval rating: Just 36% of the public approves of [tag]Bush[/tag]’s job performance, his lowest-ever rating in AP-Ipsos polling.

* Terrorism: Only 40% of the public approves of Bush’s performance on foreign policy and the war on [tag]terror[/tag], another low-water mark for his presidency.

* Iraq: Just 35% of the public approves of Bush’s handling of [tag]Iraq[/tag], his lowest in AP-Ipsos polling.

* Congress: Just 30 % of the public approves of the GOP-led Congress’ job performance, and Republicans seem to be shouldering the blame. By a 49-33 margin, the public favors [tag]Democrats[/tag] over [tag]Republicans[/tag] when asked which party should control Congress.

* Parties and national security: Republicans are now locked in a tie with Democrats 41% each on the question of which party people trust to protect the country.

Now, if only the election weren’t seven months away….

April 7, 2006 at 12:55 pm

You missed this little gem:

Six-in-10 Republicans said they disapproved of the GOP-led Congress.

You think that might depress Republican turnout in an non-Presidential election year?

As my friend and I say when we both think of the same thing at the same times – Cosmic Twinkie!

Now that Bush poll numbers are so bad what are Congressional Republicans so worried about? If they get one the beating-up-Bush game they may come across looking like mavericks – a la John McCain – and do well at election time and hold on.

These poll numbers mean NOTHING until the idiot talking heads like Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, and all the gang at ABC, NBC, CBS, FNC, MSNBC, CNN, and the rest, start telling the truth and do REAL journalism.

The CCCP (Compliant Complicit Corporate Press) needs to stop giving BushCo a pass on everything, stop parroting his lies, and go outside the beltway to discover what the rest of us in the reality-based community already knows: Joe Six-Pack, Soccer Mom, and Daddy see the evil that is the GOP today, and it makes them both mad as hell and scared shitless.

It’s time for the Beltway punditocracy to make up for their shameful groveling. I’m not holding my breath….

If the Democratic leadership had any cojones, then they would cry “Enough!” and shut down the government until the President resigned his office.

This is beyond unreal. What more does the Democratic leadership need? We are a de facto rogue state–contempt for law, torturing, waging aggressive war, kidnapping people perpetually. And subsidizing this by allowing the unity and infrastructure of the nation to disintegrate.

Christ’s sake! What more do they need before they walk out?!?

And my local newspaper was all in a twist at “Oh! oh! oh! Let’s not do something as serious as impeach!” Feh.

Can’t seem to break that 35% barrier, give or take
a point or two. I think that we can safely conclude
that the collection of fundies, bigots and rich constitute
roughly 35% of the population.

constitutes

Hey , does anybody have any poll numbers on that turd Weldon from PA after his remarks sat in?

Wow…i must be dreaming…or maybe someone put something in my coffee. Fox is reporting a 37% approval rating. Could this bastion of uber-conservative spin actually be seeing the light?

“The good news is Democrats don’t have much of a plan.”

Well, the did have one. Trouble is they let Bush scoop the TV time slot on the day it was released. Also, they put their “plan” in a god-awful-long document when it should have been in a four- or five-bullet press release. Even professors (I am one) usually don’t have to read 123 page term papers. If they get one 1/4th that size they usually suspect a load of bullshit. The Democrats’ “plan” was never read and might as well have never been written.

The ceiling and floor that I am looking for:

Job Rating for President George W. Bush —

Approval: 28%

Disapproval: 62%

Today’s Rasmussen Poll (Approve/Disapprove) is: 43% vs. 56%. And, remember Rasmussen is generous to Bush.

Seven months will seem an eternity, after a Summer of deteriorating conditions in Iraq, hurricanes devastating the Gulf and Southeast Atlantic Coast, gas climbing from $3/g toward $5/g., and the drip-drip-drip of the ever-expanding Abramoff scandal.

I think The Supreme Prevaricator gets some perverse pleasure out of his low numbers. As an offshoot of his “Let them eat shit” worldview, he can watch his numbers drop and then send Scotty and Abu Al Berto out to tell the masses to suck it up.

His mom must have smeared her nipples with pureed filet mignon, royal jelly and cavier before Shruby suckled. His sense of entitlement runs deep. The lower his numbers go, the more proof there is that no matter how little the rabble like him, there’s not a damn thing they/we can do about it. That may not be true in the end but it sure seems like he’s got a lot of faith in that bubble he lives in.

Actually, a lot can happen in seven months. A lot more bad, stupid,
and outright criminal activities can happen that we can blame the
Republicans for to top off what can already be pinned on them.
Don’t forget that the slow-moving disaster called Medicare Schedule D
is slowly working its magic on senior citizens. Just give it a little whle
longer and you will begin to hear the screaming coming from the betrayed
older set. Fortunately, this will come just in time for the Fall elections and
it will give the Republicans almost no time to do anything about it.
And if that isn’t enough Katherine Harris’s dismal Senate campaign
keeps giving and giving making the Republicans look even more inept.
Who knows, she might even turn on her former masters and spill the
beans about what really happened back in 2000 when she helped steal
the election for Bush. Now wouldn’t that be well worth waiting for?

Anthony Cuccia is bang-on right. This crowd, with their corruption, incompetence, and ideology is probably unable to do much else but what they’ve been doing all along. Don’t forget one of the important points about ideology–when you use it to design policy and it works, you look like a genius. When it doesn’t work, you don’t have many tools to fall back on–just more of the same that’s failing so resoundingly already. That’s why the White House can’t seem to shake itself out of its doldrums. That’s why Congress is having such a hard time shifting course away from the Administration. They’re in a sinking boat, but they can’t throw the baggage overboard because it’s either baggage that helped them get where they are now, or it’s stuff they looted from the ship before it began to sink.

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