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.
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You should actually read some of the news...the threads are up. Of course you'd have to be interested in the good news surrounding our troops...and let's face it, you're not interested in good news.
so you are essentially admitting that the UAE is blackmailing the US. either they get their ports deal, with no qualifications, or they turn on us as you describe.
and then in the next breath, you want us to believe they are a "great ally". are their any other UAE requests that we would have to comply with, no questions kased, if they made them, based on your scenario.
Welcome to FR.
Not according to the Republican chair of the Homeland Security Committee. And Trent Lott. Dane, I know you're all hard for this deal. Why, I can't fathom. But the President is hurting himself and his party very badly by pushing this.
You're wearing that out. It's no longer cute.
Playing politics with the dead isn't a good thing...much like they way you people are playing politics with our living and dead troops.
Don't presume to know what I'm interested in.
When you get your head out of Bush's butt, you'll realize that things are NOT going well in Iraq. Only an idiot would think they are.
Jveritas, you make very little rational sense.
The moment a bomb drops on Iran the futures market will go haywire and the barrel cost will at least double. And why should OPEC cut production because the Emir of Dubai's feelings were hurt ? That is not how grownups think.
If prices remain high during the winter (and they will) people will be found dead in frozen houses and Bush will be blamed. There is a kind of house fire common in poor neighborhoods in harsh winters. That is because everyone sleeps in one room around the space heater. Someone's blanket gets caught in the wiring, it catches fire while everyone is sleeping... Expect that to get lots of airplay. If it so happens that we have a harsh winter, God help the GOP.
No need to presume...it's apparent.
What scandals? You're just making stuff up, now.
Apparently I missed the cheering crowds in Fallujah.
They are scrapping bottom...
You're funny.
When you get your head out of Bush's butt, you'll realize that things are NOT going well in Iraq. Only an idiot would think they are.
Would you send an independent to Congress who said, "Let me speak for you in Washington. Let me fight to secure our borders. Let me fight the special interests. I'm willing to take on the powers the others won't challenge, the tax code and Wall Street and the big unions!"
Cute or not, it is accurate.
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