Get ready for the Terror Color Swatch to go all the way to plaid, because the polls are looking absolutely abysmal for the Administration That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Take the new numbers from
CBS News:
The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high.
Americans are also overwhelmingly opposed to the Bush-backed deal giving a Dubai-owned company operational control over six major U.S. ports. Seven in 10 Americans, including 58 percent of Republicans, say they're opposed to the agreement.
The troubling results for the Bush administration come amid reminders about the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina and negative assessments of how the government and the president have handled it for six months. In a separate poll, two out of three Americans said they do not think President Bush has responded adequately to the needs of Katrina victims. Only 32 percent approve of the way President Bush is responding to those needs, a drop of 12 points from last September’s poll, taken just two weeks after the storm made landfall.
Mr. Bush's overall job rating has fallen to 34 percent, down from 42 percent last month. Fifty-nine percent disapprove of the job the president is doing.
For the first time in this poll, most Americans say the president does not care much about people like themselves. Fifty-one percent now think he doesn't care, compared to 47 percent last fall.
Just 30 percent approve of how Mr. Bush is handling the Iraq war, another all-time low. By two to one, the poll finds Americans think U.S. efforts to bring stability to Iraq are going badly – the worst assessment yet of progress in Iraq.
Even on fighting terrorism, which has long been a strong suit for Mr. Bush, his ratings dropped lower than ever. Half of Americans say they disapprove of how he's handling the war on terror, while 43 percent approve.
Yikes. At the rate things are going for him in 2006, President Bush may wind up looking back on 2005 with fond memories.
Get ready for the Terror Color Swatch to go all the way to plaid, because the polls are looking absolutely abysmal for the Administration That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Take the new numbers from CBS News: 
8 comments:
Excellent Spaceballs reference, since those looking for "the good news about civil war in Iraq" are almost at the point of declaring "We ain't found shit."
Ha! Nice one.
By the way, the really interesting thing here will be to see just how low Bush's numbers can plummet.
I'm inclined to side with this post at Kung Fu Monkey, which argues that 27% is the absolute floor for a Republican. Why 27%? That's what the certifiably insane Alan Keyes got in his Senate race against Obama. Sounds about right to me.
If I may continue with the spaceballs references, Bush giving control of the ports to the UAE is like him setting the combination to "ONE-TWO-THREE-FOUR-FIVE". As 7 out of 10 Americans say, "That's the kind of combination an idiot would put on his luggage!"
S.W.,
As Karl Rove tells us, beware teh gay...ooga-booga-booga
I blame it on Bode Miller.
That Sadly, No link is great. So much delusion over in wingnutland.
Given the way they think that America's youth are going to be seduced to the Gay Side by a Willie Nelson song, you have to wonder just how slight a grasp they have on their own heterosexuality.
I blame it on Bode Miller.
Yeah, that's how bad things are for Bush. He didn't even get the usual Olympic boost.
I agree with Otto on the Sadly, No link. I think that Willie Nelson should form a backing band called His Gay Agenda. Just think: one of the greatest albums of 2006 could be Music With A Twist by Willie Nelson and His Gay Agenda.
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