Posted on 01/22/2007 4:09:46 PM PST by 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......
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It didn't help Reagan.
And .. you have to remember that these lefty pollsters use 14-16% over-weighting of dems in order to get the polls numbers they want.
The dems no long have that kind of advantage .. and elections prove it. We are more of a 50-50 country but the polls do not raflect that. And .. in the repub camp - Bush polls at around 75-79% - which is really good. If the pollsters would use the proper amount of repubs in their polls .. the President would probably be at 45-49% - but that doesn't fit the dems agenda.
Agreed, and this President just like all the others continues to do NOTHING.
Does that make him worse than Reagan, who agreed to an amnesty?
That remains to be proven??
You've got to stop putting that wild turkey in your coffee.
Not really. Time of course will tell, but Alito's track record is already better than O'Conner's, whom he replaced.
Makes as much sense as your other meaningless dribble.
So you agree with me. So why write things you don't really believe?
I don't agree with you.
Well why the hell doesn't Bush do something about the MSM.
Putin, Castro and the Democrats all know you don't let an enemy media run amok and destroy your reputation.
Sometimes the reporter has an accident, sometimes the reporter diasppears or is hit with a year in the cooler and sooner or later they get the idea that screwing around with national security for political gain just isn't very smart, there are CONSEQUENCES.
The Bush administration hasn't even tried to wage a propaganda war at home, they have surrendered to the leftists whose victory is just about total.
Hell of a way to support the troops.
The people have been fed lies and negativity by the MSM/DNC since before the 2000 election. Just what do you expect them to think now?
All they know is that Iraq was a massive screw up by Bush, and Bush hasn't done squat to counter that message.
We do not need more gassy platitudes, like I expect we will hear again tomorrow night.
We need an administration that has the stones to counter each and every lie and distortion that the MSM/DNC is spreading, and has been spreading for the last six years.
We need an administration that will actually defend itself.
I'm not holding my breath.
According to the exit polls, the percentile difference between Democrat and Republican voters in 2006 was +2 Democrats . . . The 2006 election was decided in the 'margins', i.e., the 5-7 percent undecided/non-leaner Independents [Remember, most of the Democrat gains were for seats decided by a vote margin of 2 percentage points or less!]
Well...the MSM should all be standing under a banner that says: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. I went searching for the mission accomplished banner, and after all this time I was still totally surprised how EVERY STORY THAT CAME UP WAS ANTI-BUSH. Some more vile than others. How can ANYONE bear up under all the crap that's been piled onto this one man. Has there been someone in recent history who has been more unfairly dumped on with such hatred and venom than George W. Bush.
. . . give me a break.
BTW: When you kill all of the reporters, you will then need to assasinate 90% of the K-12 teachers, 97% of the university professors, and 110% of everyone involved in the entertainment industry . . . and then, just maybe, this Republican president would get the same media/cultural coverage as ANY Democrat president!
[And don't tell me Bush should just 'do a Reagan' and go over and around the media . . . If Reagan could actually do this, why was his average JA rating still lower than GWB's current average even after 2 1/2 solid years of media-induced low JA ratings? Answer: Reagan couldn't do it -- any arguments to the contrary are based on nothing more than revisionistic history!]
He spent like a socialist democrat, added new huge entitlement programs in the field of health care and the Kennedy inspired education bills. He left the borders open for invaders from the south to rape and pillage America.
To say that his ability to express himself is inept is an understatement. His advocacy of conservative values is half hearted. The conservative movement has been damaged beyoud the ability of conservatives to repair it for at least 5 years, in fact, it may never recover. He has conducted another war of liberation which has been and will be a failure as was Bush I's war in Bosnia and Clintons wars in Somalia and Kosovo. He has managed to destroy our ability to influence other nations in the war against terrorism and is unable to lead his party. In short, GWB is an gift to the socialists that will put them in power for a long time.
No doubt the Bushbots will hate this bit of truth but so be it.
If there were a few more Americans and a few less Democrats, Republicans and whatever's left over in the Legislative Branch, the polls would be far different (except for the ones that are manipulated).
BUMP to your post. This information should be its own thread.
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