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.
You, YOU are "going to pick up the pieces later"?
WHO THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU AND WHO DIED AND MADE PUT YOU IN CHARGE OF ANYTHING?
It's only apparent to arrogant know-it-alls who think they know what others think. Don't pretend to know me. You do not.
No need to pretend...it's apparent.
The populist thing is interesting. I never quite got the logic behind it. I don't want to hire/vote for a guy who doesn't know where the bathroom is and spends two years getting up to speed. I want some guy on my side who knows his way around and wants to keep his job.
"Not according to the Republican chair of the Homeland Security Committee'
She's a dufus. Lott's been a lose cannon since he got dissed.
Why are people so afraid of globalism? Makes no sense.
I WANT SAM RAYBURN ON METH FIGHTING FOR ME!
All I have heard from you is whistling in the dark bravado and no real intelligence backing it up. Frankly that is all I have heard from most of you.
As I said before the war with Iran will be an Air War like the 1991 Gulf War but with no troops invasion. Imagine that! Very little casualties on our side and the total destruction of Iran military structure and not just their nuclear sites. Bring the American people another victory and yes win another election for the Republicans! This will be your worst nightmare.
LOL! Please, keep on reassuring me.
Bush's poll ratings will be more important and accurate 20 years from now. Whereas, CBS will be out of business! Haha
Of course it's propaganda...why do you think they posted it.
Oh, don't bother to present the facts to the Bush haters. They have long ago made up their minds and flop around in convulsive orgasms every time a poll like this comes out.
This is probably the only action they get, so let them enjoy it.
Facts are such a buzzkill.
If you want more concise, intelligent answers, try asking specific questions.
Where are your hallucinations coming form?
You think Americans will consider that worth $6.00 a gallon oil for the forseeable future ? Victory ? Tell me how victorious you feel huddled under an electric blanket in one room with the space heater in an unheated house.
It doesn't bode well for the '06 elections.
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