Posted on 02/27/2006 5:06:03 PM PST by HitmanLV
(CBS) The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high.
Americans are also overwhelmingly opposed to the Bush-backed deal giving a Dubai-owned company operational control over six major U.S. ports. Seven in 10 Americans, including 58 percent of Republicans, say they're opposed to the agreement.
CBS News senior White House correspondent Jim Axelrod reports that now it turns out the Coast Guard had concerns about the ports deal, a disclosure that is no doubt troubling to a president who assured Americans there was no security risk from the deal.
The troubling results for the Bush administration come amid reminders about the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina and negative assessments of how the government and the president have handled it for six months.
In a separate poll, two out of three Americans said they do not think President Bush has responded adequately to the needs of Katrina victims. Only 32 percent approve of the way President Bush is responding to those needs, a drop of 12 points from last September’s poll, taken just two weeks after the storm made landfall.
Mr. Bush's overall job rating has fallen to 34 percent, down from 42 percent last month. Fifty-nine percent disapprove of the job the president is doing.
For the first time in this poll, most Americans say the president does not care much about people like themselves. Fifty-one percent now think he doesn't care, compared to 47 percent last fall.
Just 30 percent approve of how Mr. Bush is handling the Iraq war, another all-time low.
By two to one, the poll finds Americans think U.S. efforts to bring stability to Iraq are going badly – the worst assessment yet of progress in Iraq.
Even on fighting terrorism, which has long been a strong suit for Mr. Bush, his ratings dropped lower than ever. Half of Americans say they disapprove of how he's handling the war on terror, while 43 percent approve.
In a bright spot for the administration, most Americans appeared to have heard enough about Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident.
More then three in four said it was understandable that the accident had occurred and two-thirds said the media had spent too much time covering the story.
Still, the incident appears to have made the public's already negative view of Cheney a more so. Just 18 percent said they had a favorable view of the vice president, down from 23 percent in January.
Americans were evenly split on whether or not Cheney's explanation of why there was a delay in reporting the accident was satisfactory.
Apparently you haven't read all the news that came out today. But then why should you, you're not interested in good news.
the damage is already done. the difference this time, is that the dissent and opposition is occurring within our base. what the Dems do on the ports issue is meaningless. its what's happening in our ranks that is the problem, and alot of people aren't going to forget about this once the administration rams this down everyone's throat, and tries to use the 45 days investigation period as simply a PR and talking points blitz, with a little demonizing thrown in regarding arab xenophobia et al. alot of people in our ranks will swallow it, alot of others will not.
That's the image he gives when he is 1/2 cocked and threatens to veto any attempt to block the port deal (you know, the one he didn't know much about).
The admin is tone deaf. They haven't communicated this issue very well at all. Awful.
I really could care less about the weiner(savage) straightjacket, "base".
Part of me tells me the MSM will try to milk it for everything its worth. Until the next 'major' story hits. Maybe Bush's National Guard records again, or another "defector" from the ranks like Richard Clarke or John ONeill, or some such crud.
The president doesn't have the stroke to launch a military strike against Iran.
The last thing we need is to have a President to run a nation by polls...
Am I missing something here? Stroke?
No, they won'. They don't have the support for it, and it will destroy any opportunity for the White House in 2008. And, Hillary and friends know it.
But, you just keep right on dancing on Bush's grave. Moving to Vegas didn't do your attitude a bit of good.
There are several things this administration & president have done or not done I'm unhappy about, but New Orleans isn't one of them.
oceanview, at the end your big predictions will be wrong as usual. When this hysteria is over, 90% of the Republicans will rally around the President and the GOP will have enough independent voters to keep control of the Congress in the next elections.
We have Arabs with whom we do business when it is expedient to them. But we do not have nor will ever have an Arab ally.
Right now, Turks are lining up around the block to see a movie in which a Jewish doctor cuts organs from Turks to send to Israel. Two years ago relations between Israel and the Turkish generals were so cozy that Israeli pilots were training in Turkish airspace, of which there is a great deal more than Israeli airspace. Now this. Just goes to show that no matter how you get along with the elites the man in the street hates your 'crusader and Zionist' guts and this will be the deciding factor.
I support and love W to the hilt. But I gotta disagre, I think they will impeach.
What planet do you live on ?
PRESIDENT BUSH WONT BE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT EVER AGAIN!
I disagree.
At the very least there is no way any Republican from a blue state will ever support this.
Your faith in Arabs in particular and Muslims in general is frankly not shared by most Americans.
I do.
I will support Bush until the day he leaves office. As well, I will support our Troops and the assignments they are given.
What I will never again support, are the majority of the American people......the majority are gutless, twofaced cowards.
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