Bush's approval drops to 24% and that is still too high

[whistle]

...while only 11% of respondents in the latest Reuters/Zogby poll released today gave the Congress a positive mark.

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October 17, 2007 at 20:45:41
Bush one point away from tying worst-ever approval rating for a president
by Frank J. Ranelli

76-percent of Americans now believe President Bush to be irrelevant and deem we should “throw the bums out" this next election cycle!

According to the latest Reuters/Zogby poll, President Bush’s approval rating now stands at a near historic low of 24-percent. Only Richard Nixon – shortly before he resigned in disgrace over Watergate in August of 1974 – had a more dismal approval rating of 23-percent.

Furthermore, 66-percent of this nation thinks we are heading in the wrong direction as a country and say the mood of the nation is “bleak.”

The survey of 991 adults included a strong indication of just how dismayed Americans are with the current government. Would-be-voters described their attitude towards Bush and Congress as simply “throw the bums out” and that Bush is now entirely “irrelevant.”

America’s acrid taste for its government was further illustrated by marks given on the Bush administration’s foreign policy stance, of which, only 18-percent approve of and gave it high marks. Adding, “Americans are giving up on this government."

Longtime pollster John Zogby summed up American’s soured outlook for their government by stating, "They tell us (Zogby) they want action on health care, education, the war and immigration, but they don't believe they are going to get it."

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_frank_j__071017_bush_one_point_away_.htm

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A Race To The Bottom
Thursday, October 18, 2007

THE PUBLIC'S opinion of Congress has fallen so low that we need Mark Twain at his most cynical to express it.

"Suppose you were an idiot," Mr. Twain wrote. "And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." He also wrote that "there is no native criminal class except Congress."

Americans today are in a very sour mood about politics in general, and Congress in particular. Mark Twain would understand the public's disenchantment.

According to the latest Reuters/Zogby poll, the approval ratings of both Congress and President Bush have fallen through the floor. The president received good marks from only 24 percent of those surveyed. But he's riding high compared with Congress. The congressional approval rating was an astonishingly low 11 percent.

That's the lowest level of public support for Congress ever recorded. Incumbents in the House and Senate knew they were in trouble last fall, when the approval rating of Congress dipped below 20 percent in the Reuters/Zogby poll. And, indeed, a few weeks later, voters swept dozens of Republicans out of Congress, giving the Democrats control of both the House and the Senate.

Why was there no honeymoon for the victorious Democrats?

President Bush's political troubles aren't hard to explain. His support has been eroded by the long, grinding war in Iraq and consumers' nervousness about high gas prices and a slumping housing market.

But how did this Congress become the most unpopular Congress in history? The answer is obvious: People voted for change last fall, and they don't believe they're getting it.

Corruption was a key issue for Democrats in the 2006 election. But the Democrats' congressional leaders haven't been able to pass sweeping ethics reform measures. Some Democrats who talked about ethics began looking for loopholes when the issue of ethics reform landed on their plate.

Although the Iraq War remains unpopular, the Democrats' leaders haven't impressed many people with their efforts to oppose it, which seem to be based more on political calculation than conviction.

Finally, the Democratic Congress hasn't accomplished a great deal -- unless you count bashing the president daily and trying to get Rush Limbaugh thrown off the radio. The voters signaled they wanted less partisanship, but they got an even more virulent form of it from the likes of Sen. Harry Reid.

Pollster John Zogby says most Americans now question "how relevant this government is to them." That's bad news for Democrats and Republicans.


http://www.al.com/opinion/press-register/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1192698902303400.xml&coll=3

[Hepburn]

1. Hard to believe that nearly one in four approves of...

...that POS in the WH.

:puke:

[tridim]

4. There's still lots of denial and not-yet-broken pride out there..

My parents in Republicanville (Johnson County) Kansas are perfect examples. They are NOT his base by any means, but they still support him because their neighbors do too.

I'm guessing they'll drop Bush when he reaches 19%, but they'll probably never tell me about it.

[leftchick]

2. cnn said 36% yesterday?

what were they quoting? A fox poll?

[Hydra]

3. The 5% who are making a fortune

and the 19% who think the world is going to end soon.

Go world destruction!

[pacalo]

5. The apologetic op-ed came from boy king country: Alabama.

"Iraq, gas prices, & slumping housing market" are only to blame for the boy king's numbers? I don't think so. And the opinionist focuses almost entirely on the Democrats for Congress' low numbers. But this sentence takes the credibility cake with the ballyhoo icing:

"Finally, the Democratic Congress hasn't accomplished a great deal -- unless you count bashing the president daily and trying to get Rush Limbaugh thrown off the radio. The voters signaled they wanted less partisanship, but they got an even more virulent form of it from the likes of Sen. Harry Reid."

If the cornball media who is still playing cheerleader for this administration can put the blame on Democrats for nothing getting done in Congress, I say they have nothing to lose by going full throttle by starting the impeachment proceedings.