Posted on 05/20/2007 8:26:32 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
President Bush yesterday used his weekly radio address to urge listeners to support the immigration deal reached by a handful of senators last week, even as new poll numbers showed the immigration issue is hurting Mr. Bush's job-approval ratings....
But the deal is too harsh for some lawmakers, and not strict enough for others. Its fate could depend on whether senators, and the voters who elected them, view the deal as an amnesty for the estimated 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the country....
Meanwhile, a new Rasmussen Reports poll found Mr. Bush's approval rating dropped to an all-time low for that poll, at 34 percent.
"The president's ratings have tumbled each time immigration reform dominates the news," Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, said in his analysis.
Mr. Rasmussen said that his polling last year, after Mr. Bush gave an Oval Office address laying out his plans for more border enforcement and giving illegal aliens a path to citizenship, found only 39 percent supported the president's position.
I think we will see some other amnesty politicians fall in the polls.
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George Bush is engineering a freight train rushing at full speed headlong for a cliff with the republican party in tow. Unless we can convince our republican senators and congressmen to get off this train the party will be completely destroyed along with Bush.
Agreed Chopperman. How does he really convince the nation to support war half way around the world, when he doesn't even pretend to protect the gaping hole of his entire 700 mile southern flank (our border)? The credibility goes down the tube. GWB doesn't see it, doesn't want to see it, won't see it.
I agree. When he started spewing this nonsense, I left him in January as did most of my GOP brethren. When he called the Minute Men “vigilantes,” that did it for me.
I was at an event where one of these “vigilantes” spoke. Well this man was a retired Air Force pilot who was shot down and spent 5 years in the Hanoi Hiltron. He is a true patriot and loves this country.
Phooey on the President and I hope his approval does go into the teens. He has been the worst GOP President in my lifetime.
The list of his Incompetencies is a mile long...
to start:
1.This immigration plan he endorses
2.Not pardoning the border patrol agents after unusually vigorous prosecution (granting immunity to an illegal drug runner)
3. Not standing up for the Haditha Marines - letting them be shackled in prison while awaiting trial
4. Letting Scooter Libby be prosecuted for nothing
5 Letting Sandy Burgler off the hook
6. Doing nothing apparently about closing the border
ADD:
8. Mismanagement of Katrina (”Brownie, heck of a job”)
9. Alberto Gonzalez fiasco
10. Wolfowitz fiasco
7. Not pursuing investigations into the security leaks.
Jim Rob thinks this amnesty could put Bush in the teens....I wholeheartedly concur with his analysis..........”
I don’t think Bush cares about his approval rating now.
He knows he isn’t going to get elected again and he wants to pull this off.
I wonder what he has been promised if he succeeds.
Don’t I know it!!
It’s not his fault alone. Equal blame goes to the scum in Congress.
I guess I know why their approval is lower than his.
Being more interested in making nice with Ted Kennedy and his enemies than dancing with the people who elected him.
AMNESTY is connected to the Iraq war, I hope Bush doesn’t go too far. At 34% no one really thinks Bush has any power to influence left. If Bush would build the fence as authorized in 2006, he would be flirting with %50.
To be fair the constant pounding by the dems and MSM, with tepid support from Congressional Pubbies has hurt the President as well. That said the immigration deal is a pig in a poke and should be dumped, as in the Potomac River.
A party that does not represent and further the goals of its constitutents has no reason to exist. The only question remaining, in my mind, is which existing party will be the beneficiary of the GOP's demise--or what new party may come into existence.
Between Bush and Clinton it will be 16 years of the American people being sold out by our so called leaders. I had a lot of faith that W would right Clinton’s wrongs. All for nothing...
we are handing over our Country to the illegals with this crap piece of legislation
To be fair the constant pounding by the dems and MSM, with tepid support from Congressional Pubbies has hurt the President as well.”
The first part I can agree with, but I think the Congressional Pubbies were hurt by the non-existent support from Bush.
Bush needs to go.
My dem congressman is on the sidelines waiting. The girl who answered the phone said he hadn’t seen it, like he doesn’t know about it. I doubt that!
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