Hey Brits: - Don't wrap your seafood in this paper.
Posted on 03/18/2006 8:24:42 PM PST by blam
Sky falls in on Bush the outcast
Plagued by Iraq, the President's own party is abandoning him as his poll ratings plunge. Paul Harris reports from New York
Sunday March 19, 2006
The Observer (UK)
When president George W Bush launched a high-profile series of speeches last week aimed at calming nerves about the Iraq war he chose to do so in the heart of Washington DC. At George Washington University, he asked America to stay the course through troubled times. It was a familiar message to an audience that had heard it all before.
What was new was the make-up of the crowd: only five Republican congressmen and one senator attended. As displays of loyalty go it left a lot to be desired. It seems Bush should worry less about the US abandoning Iraq and more about his party abandoning him.
Tarnished by the war and a never-ending flow of domestic scandals, Bush is increasingly being seen as a liability to Republicans facing November's mid-term elections. Many of the party's senior members are distancing themselves from their President with a new willingness to disobey orders from the White House.
The reason for the change is simple: disastrous polls. Four published last week put Bush's approval ratings at historically low levels. Gallup and NBC gave him 36 per cent, while CBS had him at 34 per cent and Pew on an anaemic 33 per cent. 'When the President is above 50 per cent then party unity follows. When you sink into the thirties it is every man and woman for themselves,' said Larry Haas, a political commentator and former staffer in the Bill Clinton White House.
While Bush will never fight another election, that is not true for many members of his party running in the congressional ballots.
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk ...
I will abandon any Republican who abandons Bush, I got in this with Bush and I'll get out with him.
"never-ending flow of domestic scandals"
I thought statistically this was least scandal plagued administration in decades.
i won't get into contrarian theory but this is an indication that the president is about get a lot more popular, or always has been, than current polls suggest.
Bush's poll numbers have less to do with the war and more do with his complete bungling of the ports issue. He was around 47 percent before that hit. These turkeys will use this in anyway that they can.
Have they printed the poll that shows the current Democrats in Congress are more disrespected than ever before, since the beginning of polling??? .....I din't think so.
"I thought statistically this was least scandal plagued administration in decades."
You're not counting the scandals that the media invents for them. That's all.
What you said - - BUMP!
Hey Brits: - Don't wrap your seafood in this paper.
GO AWAY LIBERAL MEDIA!
Or Jessica Simpson Gate.
Wait....., oh never mind.
GWB did hurt himself. Good day by day poll is the Rasmussen poll. GWB was bouncing between 44 to 50 percent. When the MSM tried to create scandals, GWB would dip to 44, but the Muslim riots in France and over the cartoons would boost his polls up to 50 percent. The camel that broke GWB back was the Dubai port deal and talking about how good outsourcing jobs when he visited India and advocating for temporary worker status for illegal immigrants. GWB doesn't realize job security and homeland security is driving public concerns. His poll numbers never recovered and has dipped down to 40 percent. He should not be this low with a good economy and employment rate.
testimony to the temporary effectiveness of propaganda. tell people they're miserable long enough, and I suppose they will begin to believe you.
Duncan Hunter's people called me today, looking for some money. I told them to go talk to the longshoreman union, because there wasn't one more dime EVER coming out of my wallet after that stunt he pulled.
These polls are nothing but noise. Ask your self this, If we were hit again by another 9/11 type attack, who do you think most Americans would want as President?
Bush`s poll # will climb 30 pts. or more by July of 2009.
Good on you, blam!
BTTT
Okay, here's the plan:
Back off and let those men who want to marry men,
marry men.
Allow those women who want to marry women, marry women.
Allow those folks who want to abort their babies,
abort their babies.
In three generations, there will be no Democrats!!!
Dang, I love it when a plan comes together!
Yada, yada. The port deal was as bogus and made up as the Cheney shooting fiasco. The trip to India was historic. The coverage is badly skewed and so is analysis based on it.
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