Poll-Axed
What are the odds this will get any screaming headlines? Gallup: Congress approval down to 29 percent, Bush approval steady at 33 percent.
I guessing there’s some voters’ regret. They actually thought the surrender enthusiasts were going to try to win!
Under governance-by-poll rules, the majority party of Congress is now required to resign enmasse. Or impeach itself. Or do whatever George Bush wants it to do. Something like that.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:50 am on Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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May 15th, 2007 at 10:09 am
OK, is everyone ready for the onslaught of excuses for why this is irrelevant? Schadenfreude would be so much more satisfying, if we weren’t all going down with the sinking scorpion together.
May 15th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Congress impeaching itself is most appropriate, fully inline with the narcissim they’ve been displaying for quite some time now.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Congressional Approval Down, Bush Holds Steady
A new Gallup Poll finds continued low levels of public support for both Congress and President George W. Bush. Twenty-nine percent of Americans approve of Congress, down slightly from last month’s reading (33%) and this year’s high point of 37%,…
May 15th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
http://www.news2wkrn.com/vv/2007/05/15/fred-thompson-responds-to-michael-moores-debate-challenge/
Hope this comes through…This is why I like Fred Thompson for Pres.
May 15th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
The poll says that approval has actually gone up since the Democrats booted the Republicans. As for Bush, though:
“The country doesn’t believe George W. Bush, it doesn’t trust him, and with 19 months to go it’s only going to get worse,” predicts Ed Rollins, a Republican strategist who ran Ronald Reagan’s 1984 presidential campaign. “There is nothing the president can do to get his (poll) numbers back up.”
An impotent, weakling president.
May 15th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Since his set-back in the 2006 congressional elections this “lame-duck” president has continued to oversee one of the strongest economies in national history, stonewalled all democrat initiatives beyond the re-naming of post offices, increased the pressure in Iraq, held his (albeit low) approval ratings while the democrat congress has promptly tanked and witnessed a pro-American shift in, of all places, France. For an “impotent weaking”, this fellow ain’t doing so bad.
May 16th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Materialist,
I think the word “witnessed” is the key here. If watching things as they go past equals strong leadership, then okey-doke, all hail the maximum leader. Otherwise, you need to list some actual accomplishments before you make the case that he’s anything other than impotent and a weakling.
May 16th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
In reply to Jules Crittenden (Blog Bits): I would gladly give up the present Congress entirely if the entire administration goes with it. In a heartbeat.
An Open Letter To President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Senators Bond, McCaskill, Rep. Graves & The Entire Congress:
Have a draft or end the war. This is a wealthy nation of 300 million people and there is no excuse why they cannot replace equipment and make the people – especially the ones who were in such fervor to start this war – fight it.
It has been reported that the northern commander in Iraq says “he did not have enough troops for the mission in increasingly violent Diyala province.” The surge is no surge at all and only increases the risks to troops, both the ones who are “taking the fight to the enemy” in Baghdad and the ones who are left short-handed in other provinces.
The administration ignored advice from military experts before the war that it would take several hundred thousand troops to occupy a country the size of Iraq. The Army’s new counterinsurgency manual calls for as many troops to occupy Baghdad alone, as are in the entire country. The so-called surge does not get it.
Another report says, “Scores of civilian deaths from heavy U.S. and allied reliance on air strikes to battle Taliban insurgents are threatening support for the Afghan government and creating strains within the alliance.” We have heard so many times that we can’t give up or it all will have been in vain. What do you call this?