Confidence in Bush Leadership at All-Time Low, Poll Finds

Washington Post.com ^ | 1/22/07 | Dan Balz and Jon Cohen

[alienken]

Confidence in Bush Leadership at All-Time Low, Poll Finds President Bush will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday at the weakest point of his presidency, facing deep public dissatisfaction over his Iraq war policies and eroding confidence in his leadership, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. With a major confrontation between Congress and the president brewing over Iraq, Americans overwhelmingly oppose Bush's plan to send an additional 21,500 troops to the conflict. By wide margins, they prefer that congressional Democrats, who now hold majorities in both chambers, rather than the president, take the lead in setting the direction for the country. Iraq dominates the national agenda, with 48 percent of Americans calling the war the single most important issue they want Bush and the Congress to deal with this year. No other issue rises out of single digits. The poll also found that the public trusts congressional Democrats over Bush to deal with the conflict by a margin of 60 percent to 33 percent. The president will use his speech to try to rally public opinion behind the troop deployment plan, but during the past 10 days he has made no headway in changing public opinion. The Post-ABC poll shows that 65 percent of Americans oppose sending more troops to Iraq; it was 61 percent immediately after the president unveiled the plan on Jan. 10 in a nationally televised address. The Senate plans to take up a nonbinding bipartisan resolution opposing the president's new plan for troop deployments. But many Democrats in both chambers advocate even stronger measures designed to block the deployment of the additional troops, including capping the number of troops at their levels of Jan. 1 or putting strings on the money for the new troops......

[taxed2death]

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...really makes ya wonder.... this hardly seems like a "war" footing.

[alienken]

Then you probably don't live in a border State. Our country is being given away.Pres. Bush started a partnership with Mexico to give Illegals that are here Social Security benifits and their families that don't even live here.DID YOU READ THAT RIGHT, S.S. benifits to ILLEGALS and yes I will keep bitching about it!!

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

The thirty five percent you see is the base sticking behind the President. The independents, swings, moderates, Dems, are what you see above that.

The President hasn't been 'dumping' on anyone. In fact, the OPPOSITE is what is true.

[DarthVader]

We will also find Nancy "Bela" Pelosi and her rats nest of vermin at a 32% approval rating.

[Emmett McCarthy]

I also don't "understand" it, but that doesn't matter because the fact remains that it's illegal and an egregrious dereliction of his sworn duty. If allowing it to go on is such a good thing, do so AFTER changing the law, not by simply disregarding the law.

[mosquewatch.com]

And I'll bitch and complain and raise hell with you.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Show us where Illegals are getting SS benefits. There is no legislation to that effect, other than a bunch of knee jerking, hyped up, rhetorical innuendo.

[WashingtonSource]

Stop taking all of these BS polls seriously, people. The lefties in the media print them twice a day just for the pure propaganda value. The only polls that mattered were in Nov 2000 and Nov 2004. Bush can finish out his presidency at freaking 0% approval rating for all that it matters now.

Bears repeating. Too bad so many people fall for thess propaganda polls, even Republican senators.

[Steamburg]

looks more like we know who got "polled"

[mosquewatch.com]

Emmet, the idea of "For the people , by the people" is a myth. I don't hate the President. Bottom line, I don't trust any politician. They are in it for power. It's mind over matter, They don't mind, we don't matter.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Illegals have been crossing our borders since this country first HAD a border. This is hardly something that the President has suddenly failed to do.

Your accusations are pure demagoguery as well as dishonest.

[mosquewatch.com]

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[RobbyS]

This is all driven by the belief that the situation in Iraq is hopeless. It is opinion that is totally uninformed. What has to happen, of course, is the establishment of security forces that can suppress the violence. The tactics now being proposed for Baghdad are ones that worked in Fallujah. The question is whether we have sufficient force. But no formula can really tell us that. The new commander has the reputaton of listening to people of every rank. If so, he will listen to junior officers in the field and vest them with the authority to do what works.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Your attitude is the one that is demagogic. We are being invaded and Bush will do nothing about it. To compare this to the relatively small number of illegals from times past is either naive or, as you accuse me, dishonest.

[alienken]

You are right ,there is no legislation on it. It's a partnership similar to a treaty. The Congress can vote it down but after so many days if nothing is done, it goes through.A Senator was fighting this( I think Sen. Coberson). He said the Bush Admin. would not answer any questions about it that they are trying to keep it quiet so that the Congress will not even know about it so it passes. It may have already passed.

[mosquewatch.com]

Illegals have been crossing our borders since this country first HAD a border.

Agreed, and this President just like all the others continues to do NOTHING.

[stubernx98]

Right, the fact is Bush makes decisions. Evertime there are people on the wrong side, and so they are mad at him. The alternative is Clinton. Try to keep everybody happy, and make no tough decisions.

Any leader worth their salt has a long term vision, and all always working toward that. It is usually a zig sag approach, particularly in Politaics.

I don't agree with all Bush's decisions, but I respect has leadership, and world vision. His vision is a world of democracies, and he has made good progress in that direction. It will be hundreds of years with lots of set backs, but our only hope.

[jpl]

Stop taking all of these BS polls seriously, people. The lefties in the media print them twice a day just for the pure propaganda value. The only polls that mattered were in Nov 2000 and Nov 2004. Bush can finish out his presidency at freaking 0% approval rating for all that it matters now.

So, because he's a lame duck now, he can do anything he wants for the next two years, and that's fine as far as you're concerned?

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Go to wikipedia.com and learn what "Demagoguery" means.

Then get back to me and try to fit that term into a conversation where it mans something. I already have.

[Emmett McCarthy]

I voted for him twice so I'm disposed favorably toward him, but, unlike some, won't blindly support him in this obvious dereliction. Yes, it's about power - as always. Government/trust/politician. 3 words that don't belong in the same sentence.