The spending orgy and going back on nation building is what broke faith with me.
Ever stop to think maybe the president feels his base has abandoned him, that uncontent with 75%, they’ve simply moved beyond reason?
With 71% of the country abandoning him, Bush should examine the 'reasoning' that got him here.
" May 11, 2006, 9:12 pm Bush Dips Into the 20s President Bush’s job-approval rating has fallen to its lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an “excellent or pretty good” job as president, down from 35% in April and significantly lower than 43% in January. Approval ratings for Congress overall also sank, and now stand at 18%.
Roughly one-quarter of U.S. adults say “things in the country are going in the right direction,” while 69% say “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.” This has been the trend since January, when 33% said the nation was heading in the right direction. Iraq remains a key concern for the general public, as 28% of Americans said they consider Iraq to be one of the top two most important issues the government should address, up from 23% in April. The immigration debate also prompted 16% of Americans to consider it a top issue, down from 19% last month, but still sharply higher from 4% in March."
Those aren't Morning in America numbers.
Clearly, you do not 'get' the theme of this sobering reminder...that a lot of republicans are acting like spoiled brats that, the minute they see the game not going good,according to their rules, pick up their marbles in a snit and run home to mama
or perhaps your reading comprehension was turned off...
Sorry,but something happened on 9/11/01 that kind of changed the outlook on nation building.
I read you post. I believe you are wrong. I don't expect you to rationally reconsider your comments. Good-bye.
Take out gas prices and the defeatists attitude about Iraq and GWB is there at 75% easy.
President Bush's "nation building" has seized back the offensive for not just the United States but civilization itself against an undeniable threat that is bent on destroying it. And the economy IS in fact experiencing "morning in America" numbers, but thanks to the intense press offensive, most Americans think that, while they are doing well, the economy is not. We all owe it not just to President Bush but the country to get out the message that the press is full of crap.
If he's doing nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan, then Truman was doing nation building in Germany and Japan. He didn't go back on anything.
George Bush - right on terror, right on Afghanistan, right on Iraq, but wrong on illegal invaders, wrong on Harriet Miers, wrong on McCain-Feingold, wrong on Islam as a peaceful religion and wrong on the Dubai Port Deal.
You can't have eveything I suppose.