Why the Polls are Low for President Bush

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_27265242.shtml ^ | Apr 24, 2006 | Lee Ellis

[ncountylee]

"Bush polls have fallen to a new low," shout the newspaper headlines or the news anchors on television. "President Bush and Congress have reached their lowest numbers yet," they continue, trying to speculate whether this is caused by the high gasoline prices, the current economy, or the war in Iraq.

This is strange since there is good news, mostly hidden by the media, about all three.

1. Recently, the U.S. Energy Department announced the results of a land survey: "We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:

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2. Our economy is at its best today with unemployment at its lowest in decades and with three million new jobs added!

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3. We are winning the war in Iraq and, as I write this, Jawad al-Maliki, an experienced political operator and advocate for Iraq's Shiite Muslims, has won the approval

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Anti-Bush information also pours into our homes from the news on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and even Fox News. The latter says that it is fair and balanced, implying that it gives you news from both the left and right political wings. But if TV news is to be balanced, should we not have at least one TV network that tells us only the truth about our country without two commentators spinning in two different directions? Don't we get enough opinion, generally slanted to the Left, from all the other networks?

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Polls always reflect not what people think but rather how they react to the news they see and hear every day beamed or tossed into their homes by both television and print.

[EternalVigilance]

I hear ya. Thanks.

[nopardons]

:-)

[Howlin]

Mocking is what you do. You define the mocker.

Good grief, were you *sniffing* when you posted that? Do you need a tissue?

[EternalVigilance]

You make me sick.

I think I'll go throw up now.

[fr_freak]

Right now I'm all for sending all the immigrants back.....starting from about 1650 or so.

What the hell kind of ridiculous statement is that? Are you one of these people who thinks that every third-worlder who manages to sneak across the border is entitled to full citizen rights (actually greater rights than your average citizen, thanks to affirmative action) simply because the people who founded this country can't trace their ancestry to North America since the dawn of time? Or are you just saying stupid things just to stir things up on this thread?

[Garry Boldwater]

As someone who has supported Bush with money and votes in the last two elections that is unhappy with him now, what exactly is so ugly about things like:

1. Secure our border and enforce immigration laws.
2. Reduce deficit spending and bring control to the federal budget.

Bush is failing on both issues and others that are important to his base. Am I a conservative wacko now by Bush definitions.

There is an old saying: I didn't leave the party the party left me.

[nopardons]

FYI...the vast majority of the whole, of the price of gasoline, is the local and state and FEDERAL taxes.

[Howlin]

You make me sick. I think I'll go throw up now.

I'm trying to imagine Karl Rove posting that on the internet.

*Rolling my eyes*

[EternalVigilance]

I'm trying to imagine Karl Rove posting that on the internet.

He's never met you.

[onyx]

His postions on immigration have not changed one iota since he ran on 2000.

Think back, right before 9/11 it was a virtual certainty that his policies were about to be enacted by Congress.

I want the borders sealed too, but I gave up that hope when POTUS didn't seal them on 9/12, which was the most golden of opportunities. Nobody, save for the ACLU and La Raza would have dared to complain.

[nopardons]

Karl Rove actually manages to help get his candidates elected! Of course he wouldn't post something as childish as that. LOL

[Howlin]

He's never met you.

Neither have you.

But, frankly, I'm surprised a politico like you would let an anonymous name on the internet reduce you to posting childish insults.

I'm going to do you a favor and let you have the last embarassing word, EV.

[Gelato]

I thought you were going to bed. ;-)

George Allen has nice-sounding, meaningles rhetoric on the borders.

Reminds me of another George.

"First, America must control its borders."

"I oppose amnesty."

Who said the above? G.W. Bush, Jan. 2004.

[Garry Boldwater]

I'm with you there, but at this point, GWB has been elected as many times as that's gonna happen. Historically, when a President has been this unpopular at this point, his party tends to lose seats in Congress. I don't blame any Republicans for pushing away visibly from President Bush.

The only problem is that pushing away from Bush is just going to create deeper fractures in the party. And even the ones pushing away form Bush are on the wrong side of some of the base important issues. Jeez...

When are they going to wake up.

[EternalVigilance]

So, hey, Howlin! What have YOU ever done for the GOP, except attack conservatives on the internet and try to drive them away?

Dang, some folks might think you were nothing but a mole, seeing how you always slam conservatives so hard.

On this thread you told us how much you hate conservatives, after all.

[onyx]

I can go HAPPILY to bed, now that you posted your GA dig.

[EternalVigilance]

Neither have you.

Thank God for large favors.

[Gelato]

There you admit it. Politics is about ideas, not power.

You gain power based upon your ideas, for the sole purpose of advancing them.

Not the other way around.

Stand for nothing in politics, and you lose power.

[Howlin]

LOL.......me, too.

[Gelato]

Glad to have fulfilled your bedtime wish.

Have a good night.