[BoBToMatoE]

He is right on all three counts. If Bush can beat back gas to under $2.00 his ratings will go back up. If Iraq can settle down that will help even more.

[Pondman88]

Gas is the issue. Gas at 2.50-3 would kill any President. If it goes down, W will be fine. If not, it's a rocky road.

[Khepera]

Why is it that the polls I see are saying the exact opposite?

[LilDarlin]

I know this may sound a bit "unbalanced", but I'm not sure President Bush much cares about "approval" ratings...

HE'S NOT RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION!!!!

However, those who would like to take his place - most noticably those Republican Senators and Governors who would aspire to that lofty position - really ought to get their collective and individual butts in gear.

Ah well, we can all hope, can't we...

[luvbach1]

The 32% approval rate for GWB's handling of Iraq is probably an accurate number. But it's more properly a measure of the difficulties in "handling" Iraq, which are immense and likely insoluble by the best possible plan. What is the Demoncrap plan for Iraq other than cut and run?

[SPOTTEDOWL]

Is George running for office in 2008? I can't see why he should care about his poll ratings? Makes him seem like Slick Willie trying to improve his legacy. I think the President has done just fine so far considering all the misfortune that has happened on his watch. I may disagree with his lack of vetos on spending and his stance on immigration along with his choices of political appointments rather than professional ones, but when I think of the alternatives in algore and John Effin' Kerry I can put my mind at ease. I hope George gives us a true Conservative like Janic Rogers Brown or Michael Luttig for our next Supreme Court Nominee and if Teddy, Schumer, Leahy or other liberals have heart attacks....so be it!

[Terpfen]

Do those things, Mr. President, and those poll numbers will go right up.

No, they won't. When the hell will these people realize that Democrats are being oversampled in these polls, and are therefore completely meaningless?

[Alia]

The president has suspended Davis-Bacon rules for the cleanup (the law has a provision for such a suspension in the case of natural disaster). Labor unions — providers of megamillions to Democratic campaigns — are up in arms

Keep eyes peeled for a left-hook from D-Maxine Waters. Assuredly, it will come.

[sinkspur]

Just 42 percent said Bush was acting because he sincerely cares about the victims, while 56 percent said he was acting mostly for political reasons.

What a ridiculous question! How do you measure "caring"?

This is the influence of the ridiculous media campaign against Bush, plus the race pimps squealing like stuck pigs.

[hotsteppa]

And another thing that really gets to me. The reality of whats happening on the ground in Iraq, and the perception that we have here at home, are so completely different that its discouraging to here even conservative commenter's (who should know better), state as if its fact, that the war is going bad. How did this perception became reality?

I seriously doubt that Americans on a whole have what it takes to see this through.

Peace.