Their away saying he reached the lower rating ever yet it stay in the 20's and 30's what's up with that ... I don't believe he's even in the high teens ...
Well he's good at something. Any all you folks who think he isn't good at anything and call him all those names fartboy and piglets and King George and schmuckface need to think differently, Or not.
What do you mean the economy attacked when no one was looking?
No one was looking OUTSIDE THAT swirling toilet bowl known as DC.
Trust me, the rest of the country has been feeling the economic pinch for YEARS.
Its only because actual candidates for '08 brought some reporters to talk to voters...
something the MSM hadn't bothered to do in YEARS. They've been too busy
sucking the kneecaps of Bush and Cheney.
Remember in the movie/book 'Seven Days in May' when President Lyman had an approval rating that was so low that General Scott and the Joint Chiefs thought it was okay to overthrow him in a military coup? Lyman's approval rating in Seven Days in May was 29%. Bush just bounced off 19% and he's still there, which leads me to believe he's got some dirt on the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...like, letters to his mistress, or something.
Among all Americans, 19% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 77% disapprove. When it comes to Bush's handling of the economy, 14% approve and 79% disapprove.
Among Americans registered to vote, 18% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 78% disapprove.
Just who in the hell are these people?? What rock do they live in?? OK, I get it..some people have no television access.......so when they polled, did they poll the homeless?
The mistake is assigning the label, President, to this goofball.
"The President", for the past 7+ years, is a conglomerate of neo-cons, republicans, and stinking corporations.
To all of you: Thanks for trashing our Constitution, our laws, our morality, our ethics, our reputation. I hope to hell you all gag on the riches you pilfered from the world.
This fuck could have a negative approval rating and it doesn't matter a damn bit because Congress and the Supreme Court are on his side.
God forbid the people - the ones who form government and give it legitimacy - have a say in said government.
My prediction: He'll shuffle back to shit-kickin' Crawford with millons in the bank and not a care in the world. He'll live out the rest of his pathetic life riding his precious bike and clearing brush. He'll occasionally make a few speeches in front of the 19% that feel he's doing a great job. He'll also dictate his deep thoughts to some ghost writer and come out with a book.
Well he's good at something. Any all you folks who think he isn't good at anything and call him all those names fartboy and piglets and King George and schmuckface need to think differently, Or not.
you have to be short two chroma-zones...........x and y
WASHINGTON -- These are hectic times at the U.S. Secret Service, which faces a big-time security strain as the 2008 presidential campaign heats up. The agency is planning to hire and train 103 agents to protect President Bush when he leaves office Jan. 20, 2009.
This fuck could have a negative approval rating and it doesn't matter a damn bit because Congress and the Supreme Court are on his side.
God forbid the people - the ones who form government and give it legitimacy - have a say in said government.
My prediction: He'll shuffle back to shit-kickin' Crawford with millons in the bank and not a care in the world. He'll live out the rest of his pathetic life riding his precious bike and clearing brush. He'll occasionally make a few speeches in front of the 19% that feel he's doing a great job. He'll also dictate his deep thoughts to some ghost writer and come out with a book.
the book...........
see dick with gun
see bush run
see dick shot bush in head
see it makes no difference
WASHINGTON -- These are hectic times at the U.S. Secret Service, which faces a big-time security strain as the 2008 presidential campaign heats up. The agency is planning to hire and train 103 agents to protect President Bush when he leaves office Jan. 20, 2009.
Billed to the taxpayers of course.
Hey, what are you complaining about. At least he's FINALLY created some JOBS!
(I can just imagine 103 Blackwater cowboys riding shotgun on his motorcade every day, and taking pot-shots at anybody driving a Volvo that gets too close.)
WASHINGTON -- These are hectic times at the U.S. Secret Service, which faces a big-time security strain as the 2008 presidential campaign heats up. The agency is planning to hire and train 103 agents to protect President Bush when he leaves office Jan. 20, 2009.
Billed to the taxpayers of course.
103?
how many does bill have?
does that 103 include the ones who will be hangin with the twins and laura?
or is everyone just concerned about the tar and feathering mob that will be haning out waiting for him to walk out the gates in feb 09
What is even more amazing is that if you look at the site it shows that he started from the HIGHEST approval ratings of any president, too (92%, after guess-what). Kind of like taking a huge budget surplus and turning it into the biggest deficit in the history of time.
["The President", for the past 7+ years, is a conglomerate of neo-cons, republicans, and stinking corporations.
To all of you: Thanks for trashing our Constitution, our laws, our morality, our ethics, our reputation. I hope to hell you all gag on the riches you pilfered from the world "]
A perfect statement. F* every neo-con, republican and stinking corporation for destroying the Unites States. May you all rot in hell. And all those neocons who thought trashing this country to keep Israel safe: Be damned in hell.
I kinda thought he might join Dick Cheney and Ken Lay in Dubai.
I'm betting on China. He's a hero there. They're already erecting gold statues of Bush next to Mao's statues in Beijing. The man's done more do destroy western impirialism and boost the Chinese economy than anyone in history.
Pericles has it right. The anti-liberal/Fox Network group is still quite strong, so this 19% figure is truly remarkable. Consider that 10% of the public supports any president, just because he's president and they think it's right to do so. In reality, Bush has about 9% support for his policies. Amazing. His base has vanished, totally.
Conclusion? Huge numbers of people have decided that Bush isn't a real conservative. Welcome to the real world, folks! Real conservatives don't run up trillion-dollar deficits fighting a war that can't be won, meanwhile telling us after five years that it will be won.
Real conservatives don't shred civil liberties by spying on Americans, then lie about it. Real conservatives don't think tax cuts are the answer to every economic woe.
There's another factor, I think. Huge numbers of people now realize Bush is an ignoramus.
WASHINGTON -- These are hectic times at the U.S. Secret Service, which faces a big-time security strain as the 2008 presidential campaign heats up. The agency is planning to hire and train 103 agents to protect President Bush when he leaves office Jan. 20, 2009.
Billed to the taxpayers of course.
I think the truth about false flag plots and all the like comes from this: In eight years in office, there hasn't been ONE assassination attempt on Bush (and don't give me the BS White House-made up story about the bomb in Georgia that some crazy Russian tried to throw at him).
I kinda thought he might join Dick Cheney and Ken Lay in Dubai.
I'm betting on China. He's a hero there. They're already erecting gold statues of Bush next to Mao's statues in Beijing. The man's done more do destroy western impirialism and boost the Chinese economy than anyone in history.
I said it in 2000, and I will repeat it here, and I will stand by it.
George W. Bush will be the last Republican president. Ever.
He has no skill but for destruction. No desire but for self-aggrandizement. No talent but for waste and wreckage. He is the perfect GOP president. An overspoiled man-child brat who deserves nothing other than to be put over an adult's knee and whipped. He was the perfect lazy, self-centered, status-craving scumbag, bereft of conscience or remorse, to carry out the every depraved whim of the useless scrum of elite upon the rotting corpse of our nation and his party.
Now he has caused irreparable damage to his party, and extended the cracks and fissures of that destruction down into the bedrock of our Nation itself. The United States will be many a long decade filling, filing, and sanding over the repairs, and we will NEVER forget how dangerous it is to allow a clueless jackoff into office. The institutions that put this marble-mouthed imbecile in office are themselves being rapidly rendered irrelevant and inconsequential even as they bray in protest at his passing. Going into obscurity with Bush and the GOP will be the mainstream media. One after the other these decrepit institutions will crumble and collapse and overturn.
But I really do believe that after 2009, the American public will recoil in revulsion when presented with "Republican" or "GOP." There is no turning back. And it was George W. Bush who led them into this morass of irrelevance. Mark my words. You heard it here. The GOP is dead. They just can't smell the stink of their own corpse yet.
To be sure there will be another crowd of braying conservatives who band together and "bravely" anoint themselves the protectors of all that is elite, decent, and privileged, but they will have to make up a new name for themselves and jettison most of the dead weight baggage of their current empty suit front men. It will be awhile before they can field a national candidate for President. In the meantime, it's time for those of us who really care about Americans to shove the Overton window to the left as far and as fast as we can.
Tue, 02/19/2008 - 19:11 — jack damage (not verified)
Naahhh, no way, get out a town.. No, really!!???? Ya don't say...
Well, who woulda thunk.... Gee ya coulda pushed me over with a feather at that revelation.....Waddayaknow. Well Georgie, I guess you got yer lagacy there blud..hope yer happy asshole..JD
I said it in 2000, and I will repeat it here, and I will stand by it.
George W. Bush will be the last Republican president. Ever.
He has no skill but for destruction. No desire but for self-aggrandizement. No talent but for waste and wreckage. He is the perfect GOP president. An overspoiled man-child brat who deserves nothing other than to be put over an adult's knee and whipped. He was the perfect lazy, self-centered, status-craving scumbag, bereft of conscience or remorse, to carry out the every depraved whim of the useless scrum of elite upon the rotting corpse of our nation and his party.
Now he has caused irreparable damage to his party, and extended the cracks and fissures of that destruction down into the bedrock of our Nation itself. The United States will be many a long decade filling, filing, and sanding over the repairs, and we will NEVER forget how dangerous it is to allow a clueless jackoff into office. The institutions that put this marble-mouthed imbecile in office are themselves being rapidly rendered irrelevant and inconsequential even as they bray in protest at his passing. Going into obscurity with Bush and the GOP will be the mainstream media. One after the other these decrepit institutions will crumble and collapse and overturn.
But I really do believe that after 2009, the American public will recoil in revulsion when presented with "Republican" or "GOP." There is no turning back. And it was George W. Bush who led them into this morass of irrelevance. Mark my words. You heard it here. The GOP is dead. They just can't smell the stink of their own corpse yet.
To be sure there will be another crowd of braying conservatives who band together and "bravely" anoint themselves the protectors of all that is elite, decent, and privileged, but they will have to make up a new name for themselves and jettison most of the dead weight baggage of their current empty suit front men. It will be awhile before they can field a national candidate for President. In the meantime, it's time for those of us who really care about Americans to shove the Overton window to the left as far and as fast as we can.
oh, if only you were right...
i submit that the whole dem versus GOP meme is--imho--going to be a relic of the 20th century. the 2 parties have exposed themselves to the public like an old man wearing nothing but a tattered trench coat.
it is hard to see daylight between certain members of these 2 parties. and i hereby predict that the 21st century's political discourse is going to be less partisan based. i think the century of the independent is nigh.
this is not to say that politicians and pundits won't fall into opposing camps, i just don't think they will be based on the current parties. the future political landscape will be divided between corporatists and anti-corporatists...
Tue, 02/19/2008 - 19:22 — Harry Scrote (not verified)
The only reason this dimwit wasn't assasinated was that Cheney was his VP. Nobody likes that prick (either of them.) Oh, and I heard somewhere that if he gets impeached the repugs passed a law that says he gets no Secret Service--aawww fuck, he'd just hire Blackwater anyway.
This is a joke-- your democratically controlled congress is even lower-- they've accomplished NOTHING while in control and they don't have the left wing nuts in the media constantly hammering them because the left is a morally corrupt bunch of liars.
Bush is what kept you save all these years (after the attacks on 9/11 that are directly the fault of clinton).
The leftnuts mercilessly hammer Bush and have tried their damnedest to destroy this country-- now with Obama you'll have the best chance yet.
The left is an offensive disease....our Founding Fathers are turning in their graves because of you red commie socialist fascist thugs--
Took "morans" 7 years to almost recognize this POS, traitor, mental midget, child of privilege, fucken TOOL... for what he is. This scourge of the planet along with the puppet master cheny NEED to be removed from office and tried in a real Court of Law.
Richard Green on Air America Radio just thanked John Amato of C&L for this story!
And I hope Bush has more history to make, like the first ex-president to be tried for war crimes, the first to be tried for treason, the first to be convicted of war crimes, etc.
Richard Green on Air America Radio just thanked John Amato of C&L for this story!
And I hope Bush has more history to make, like the first ex-president to be tried for war crimes, the first to be tried for treason, the first to be convicted of war crimes, etc.
This is a joke-- your democratically controlled congress is even lower-- they've accomplished NOTHING while in control and they don't have the left wing nuts in the media constantly hammering them because the left is a morally corrupt bunch of liars.
Bush is what kept you save all these years (after the attacks on 9/11 that are directly the fault of clinton).
The leftnuts mercilessly hammer Bush and have tried their damnedest to destroy this country-- now with Obama you'll have the best chance yet.
The left is an offensive disease....our Founding Fathers are turning in their graves because of you red commie socialist fascist thugs--
Tue, 02/19/2008 - 19:45 — Impeach cheney and bush (not verified)
You'll wonder who that 18-19% approval people are? I work with them everyday. I drive behind them with their Bush/Cheney bumper stickers. I am a Texan enveloped by mental midgets. I just tell them I don't understand it. And I don't. I knew he was a privileged, drugged/alcoholic, asshole before he ran for governor. I thought surely these assholes won't vote for a drugged, alcoholic asshole-but I was wrong. He had a Bush name and that's all it took. See, the republicans only are concerned with the sins of democrats. W could have been a serial killer and they would have voted for him. Funny, since he started the Iraq War he has become a serial murderer.
This is a joke-- your democratically controlled congress is even lower-- they've accomplished NOTHING while in control
Of course, the fact that Bush vetoes any piece of legislation that does not conform to his desires has nothing to do with this. However, you may also have conveniently left out the fact that the public has responded quite favorably to Congress standing up to Bush, and that the real problem they have is with the REPUBLICANS in Congress
and they don't have the left wing nuts in the media constantly hammering them because the left is a morally corrupt bunch of liars.
The left wing nuts like McCain-humper Chris Matthews, or the screamers at Fox?
Bush is what kept you save all these years
Yes, bush kept us "save" after he fucked up and let 9/11 happen, which happened almost 1/5 of the way into his term and could not even remotely be blamed on Clinton, you stumbling fool -- but the price we've paid for being "save" has been our civil liberties and economic well-being. The whimpering, pants-pissing state of yammering fear that our nation was cowed into after 9/11 has passed, thank you, and 80% of us are now awake and see that we are in reality no better off, and that the statistically infinitesimal risk of a terror attack is a price well worth paying for the right to speak our minds without fear.
The leftnuts mercilessly hammer Bush and have tried their damnedest to destroy this country-- now with Obama you'll have the best chance yet.
Do you have facts, logic, or substance to that argument, or are you just chock full of quivering bullshit? Survey says -- the latter! Produce factual statements in support of your assertion or withdraw it immediately.
The left is an offensive disease....our Founding Fathers are turning in their graves because of you red commie socialist fascist thugs--
Is this the best you have? Red Commies? Socialists? Are you old and stupid? Have you been asleep for 17 years? Communism died so long ago that its corpse is old enough to vote! And you do realize that "fascism" is an extreme of right-wing politics, don't you? And it is in fact politically incompatible with Socialism or Communism? Or are you too dumb to understand the labels you carelessly stick to anyone with whom you do not agree? Get back on the short bus, pal, and remember to strap yourself in and wear your headgear.
God help us all-- although y'all are Godless too.
I'm very proud of my atheism. It sets me apart from people as a sign of my ability to think independently. But not all liberals are godless, and Republicans don't own religion, nor do you have any right whatsoever to claim exclusive ownership of the idea of patriotism. Insinuations that you're more American than liberals or some other such shuddering horseshit do nothing but make you look like a weakminded fool, and an asshole.
Tue, 02/19/2008 - 19:58 — Just A Grunt (not verified)
Good thing the people in Africa don't have our media. At every stop on the tour the President has been on he has been greeted warmly and embraced kindly for all that he has done for the peoples there. I can't recall any Democratic politician being hailed with so much affection on the African continent. Maybe all of that will change when Obama is president.
This is a joke-- your democratically controlled congress is even lower-- they've accomplished NOTHING while in control
Of course, the fact that Bush vetoes any piece of legislation that does not conform to his desires has nothing to do with this. However, you may also have conveniently left out the fact that the public has responded quite favorably to Congress standing up to Bush, and that the real problem they have is with the REPUBLICANS in Congress
and they don't have the left wing nuts in the media constantly hammering them because the left is a morally corrupt bunch of liars.
The left wing nuts like McCain-humper Chris Matthews, or the screamers at Fox?
Bush is what kept you save all these years
Yes, bush kept us "save" after he fucked up and let 9/11 happen, which happened almost 1/5 of the way into his term and could not even remotely be blamed on Clinton, you stumbling fool -- but the price we've paid for being "save" has been our civil liberties and economic well-being. The whimpering, pants-pissing state of yammering fear that our nation was cowed into after 9/11 has passed, thank you, and 80% of us are now awake and see that we are in reality no better off, and that the statistically infinitesimal risk of a terror attack is a price well worth paying for the right to speak our minds without fear.
The leftnuts mercilessly hammer Bush and have tried their damnedest to destroy this country-- now with Obama you'll have the best chance yet.
Do you have facts, logic, or substance to that argument, or are you just chock full of quivering bullshit? Survey says -- the latter! Produce factual statements in support of your assertion or withdraw it immediately.
The left is an offensive disease....our Founding Fathers are turning in their graves because of you red commie socialist fascist thugs--
Is this the best you have? Red Commies? Socialists? Are you old and stupid? Have you been asleep for 17 years? Communism died so long ago that its corpse is old enough to vote! And you do realize that "fascism" is an extreme of right-wing politics, don't you? And it is in fact politically incompatible with Socialism or Communism? Or are you too dumb to understand the labels you carelessly stick to anyone with whom you do not agree? Get back on the short bus, pal, and remember to strap yourself in and wear your headgear.
God help us all-- although y'all are Godless too.
I'm very proud of my atheism. It sets me apart from people as a sign of my ability to think independently. But not all liberals are godless, and Republicans don't own religion, nor do you have any right whatsoever to claim exclusive ownership of the idea of patriotism. Insinuations that you're more American than liberals or some other such shuddering horseshit do nothing but make you look like a weakminded fool, and an asshole.
DAmmn............they really came out of the woodwork today.
Good thing the people in Africa don't have our media. At every stop on the tour the President has been on he has been greeted warmly and embraced kindly for all that he has done for the peoples there. I can't recall any Democratic politician being hailed with so much affection on the African continent. Maybe all of that will change when Obama is president.
Yeah, I guess if they can't read, and don't have TV they probably think Bush is OK. Kind of like "Elvis" up there -- ignorance is bliss.
This is a joke-- your democratically controlled congress is even lower-- they've accomplished NOTHING while in control
Of course, the fact that Bush vetoes any piece of legislation that does not conform to his desires has nothing to do with this. However, you may also have conveniently left out the fact that the public has responded quite favorably to Congress standing up to Bush, and that the real problem they have is with the REPUBLICANS in Congress
and they don't have the left wing nuts in the media constantly hammering them because the left is a morally corrupt bunch of liars.
The left wing nuts like McCain-humper Chris Matthews, or the screamers at Fox?
Bush is what kept you save all these years
Yes, bush kept us "save" after he fucked up and let 9/11 happen, which happened almost 1/5 of the way into his term and could not even remotely be blamed on Clinton, you stumbling fool -- but the price we've paid for being "save" has been our civil liberties and economic well-being. The whimpering, pants-pissing state of yammering fear that our nation was cowed into after 9/11 has passed, thank you, and 80% of us are now awake and see that we are in reality no better off, and that the statistically infinitesimal risk of a terror attack is a price well worth paying for the right to speak our minds without fear.
The leftnuts mercilessly hammer Bush and have tried their damnedest to destroy this country-- now with Obama you'll have the best chance yet.
Do you have facts, logic, or substance to that argument, or are you just chock full of quivering bullshit? Survey says -- the latter! Produce factual statements in support of your assertion or withdraw it immediately.
The left is an offensive disease....our Founding Fathers are turning in their graves because of you red commie socialist fascist thugs--
Is this the best you have? Red Commies? Socialists? Are you old and stupid? Have you been asleep for 17 years? Communism died so long ago that its corpse is old enough to vote! And you do realize that "fascism" is an extreme of right-wing politics, don't you? And it is in fact politically incompatible with Socialism or Communism? Or are you too dumb to understand the labels you carelessly stick to anyone with whom you do not agree? Get back on the short bus, pal, and remember to strap yourself in and wear your headgear.
God help us all-- although y'all are Godless too.
I'm very proud of my atheism. It sets me apart from people as a sign of my ability to think independently. But not all liberals are godless, and Republicans don't own religion, nor do you have any right whatsoever to claim exclusive ownership of the idea of patriotism. Insinuations that you're more American than liberals or some other such shuddering horseshit do nothing but make you look like a weakminded fool, and an asshole.
DAmmn............they really came out of the woodwork today.
Do you mean "they" as in the paid right-wing trolls who seem to swarm in droves whenever the political future of the ruling elite is at risk?
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Growing confidence in the future and slightly warmer views of President George W. Bush and Congress put Americans in a better mood this month, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
The Reuters/Zogby Index, which measures the mood of the country, rose sharply to 99.3 in February from last month's 94.2, putting it at the highest level since August.
Approval ratings for Bush climbed to 34 percent from 31 percent last month, and positive ratings for Congress inched up from 14 percent to a still-low 17 percent.
Concerns about personal finances, job security, safety and the direction of the country all eased at least slightly in the last month, brightening the outlook for Americans who had slipped into a funk around the holidays.
There were some dark clouds. For the first time, a majority of Americans, 54 percent, expect a recession in the next year, up from last month's 48 percent, as a housing downturn and credit crunch take their toll.
Despite worries about a recession, the number of Americans who think the country is on the wrong track shrank to a still-high 62 percent, down from 68 percent.
"People are adjusting their expectations. They see a recession coming but they still feel better about their future," pollster John Zogby said.
The mood swing followed a month in which Bush and Congress worked together to approve a package of measures designed to give a short-term boost to the economy, while U.S. deaths from the war in Iraq continued to fade from the headlines.
The intense interest in the U.S. presidential race as voting began across the United States, with compelling races in both political parties capturing public attention, turned the debate from the present, Zogby said.
FOCUS ON FUTURE
"The focus now is on the future. There is going to be a new president and a new Congress and people feel good about that," he said.
Eight of the 10 measures of public opinion used in the Index rose, with one dropping slightly and one staying the same.
The number of Americans who feel very secure in their jobs jumped 7 points in a month, to 50 percent from 43 percent, and the number who gave positive marks to their personal financial situations climbed to 56 percent from 52 percent.
Positive marks for the Bush administration's foreign policy climbed 5 points to 28 percent from 23 percent, but approval ratings for economic policy stayed exactly the same at a low 22 percent.
More Americans feel very safe from foreign threats and more are fairly or very proud of the United States, but the number of Americans confident their children will have a better life fell slightly to 64 percent.
The Index combines responses to 10 questions on Americans' views about their leaders, the direction of the country and their future. Index polling began in July, and that month's results provide the benchmark score of 100.
A score above 100 indicates the public mood has improved since July. A score below 100, like the one this month, shows the mood has soured since July.
The RZI is released on the third Wednesday of each month.
The telephone poll of 1,105 likely voters, taken Wednesday through Saturday, had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Good thing the people in Africa don't have our media. At every stop on the tour the President has been on he has been greeted warmly and embraced kindly for all that he has done for the peoples there. I can't recall any Democratic politician being hailed with so much affection on the African continent. Maybe all of that will change when Obama is president.
I'm sure that was just another photo-op where they hand picked people who were willing to stick to their official script.
Even if they have to pay people to cheer for this guy, they'll be able to dig up enough bodies for a quick photo.
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Isn't it great to make history?
News Corpse, The Internet's Chronicle Of Media Decay.
Boy, he is just making history everywhere.
What an embarrassment for Americans forever.
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Number of Operations Iraq Freedom and Enduring Freedom casualties
as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 4425
Mission Accomplished.
Their away saying he reached the lower rating ever yet it stay in the 20's and 30's what's up with that ... I don't believe he's even in the high teens ...
19%
Well we now know what % of Americans shouldn't be allowed to breed.
Thankfuly most of them are in retirement homes.
Well he's good at something. Any all you folks who think he isn't good at anything and call him all those names fartboy and piglets and King George and schmuckface need to think differently, Or not.
Woo Hoo!!! About Time. Now let's prosecute.
What do you mean the economy attacked when no one was looking?
No one was looking OUTSIDE THAT swirling toilet bowl known as DC.
Trust me, the rest of the country has been feeling the economic pinch for YEARS.
Its only because actual candidates for '08 brought some reporters to talk to voters...
something the MSM hadn't bothered to do in YEARS. They've been too busy
sucking the kneecaps of Bush and Cheney.
I guess I misunderestimated Bush.
Remember in the movie/book 'Seven Days in May' when President Lyman had an approval rating that was so low that General Scott and the Joint Chiefs thought it was okay to overthrow him in a military coup? Lyman's approval rating in Seven Days in May was 29%. Bush just bounced off 19% and he's still there, which leads me to believe he's got some dirt on the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...like, letters to his mistress, or something.
Can't wait until the general election. The Dems are idiots if they don't keep showing photos of McCain and Chimpy locked in a passionate embrace.
That will be the gift that keeps on giving....all the way to November.
Wow! there's no understanding how 19% can think he's doing a good job.
A smirk that will live infamy.
Just who in the hell are these people?? What rock do they live in?? OK, I get it..some people have no television access.......so when they polled, did they poll the homeless?
Oops.
A smirk that will live in infamy.
You want us to impeach? And piss off such a huge portion of the country?
The mistake is assigning the label, President, to this goofball.
"The President", for the past 7+ years, is a conglomerate of neo-cons, republicans, and stinking corporations.
To all of you: Thanks for trashing our Constitution, our laws, our morality, our ethics, our reputation. I hope to hell you all gag on the riches you pilfered from the world.
cg @ 16:
Aha!!!!!! Now I understand....that high percentage that approves are politicians in both parties!!! I get it.
Chances are finding someone who will admit they voted for Bush will be as easy as it was finding appropriate jury mambers for O.J.
Wow, he even dipped into his 29 percenters who would never give up support for him...until they finally did!
Is this what he meant by
"history will judge me"?
In the rest of the world, where they follow 'Celsius,' he's actually got a 'Negative 28.'
Dahgrostab'ph-r-i @ 20:
Yeah, but support and approval are two different things. 29% of the American population would vote for a turnip if it said it was anit-liberal.
19%? So the Flat-Earth Rapturist Society and PNAC and Fox News is all he's got left?
Not to worry. He's got a buncha months left to backstab, befuddle, torture and bankrupt them, too.
Congratulations on your LEGACY!
He looks happy in that pic.
Of course with a trillion in the bank and no debts I suppose that might be easy to do.
This fuck could have a negative approval rating and it doesn't matter a damn bit because Congress and the Supreme Court are on his side.
God forbid the people - the ones who form government and give it legitimacy - have a say in said government.
Jesus H. Christ!
Who are these 10%ers? There are only 40 or so members in Bush's immediate family and 310M of the rest of us. That's 0.000012903226%
If I meet one of these 9.999987096774%ers their getting punched square on the nose. No questions asked.
actually the sad thing is - the reason his approval rating has dropped so low is because he visited africa -
It's like a double edged sword this 19%.
ABOUT TIME! Jeeeez.....
I hope the media stops with Lincoln comparisons now.
CD @ 5:
Blackwater mercenaries have retired?
Ya, too bad the congress, dem's and repub's are in that 19%.
bush is a fucking retarded drunkard fascist who should be impeached
for all his crimes against the USA and the American Constitution.
Pretzels for everyone!
Tommy Gunn @ 27:
My prediction: He'll shuffle back to shit-kickin' Crawford with millons in the bank and not a care in the world. He'll live out the rest of his pathetic life riding his precious bike and clearing brush. He'll occasionally make a few speeches in front of the 19% that feel he's doing a great job. He'll also dictate his deep thoughts to some ghost writer and come out with a book.
natisman @ 6:
you have to be short two chroma-zones...........x and y
I WISH I could hear his cronies justifying this for him.
Well Sir... uh... See, the uh... 19%, they um.. represent the uh... non-terrorist supporting percent of the population! Ya! Thats the ticket!
WASHINGTON -- These are hectic times at the U.S. Secret Service, which faces a big-time security strain as the 2008 presidential campaign heats up. The agency is planning to hire and train 103 agents to protect President Bush when he leaves office Jan. 20, 2009.
Billed to the taxpayers of course.
His family must be so proud of this accomplishment. Greatness just runs in the family.
Maybe would could trade all of them for some hostages somewhere.
The Truth Hurts @ 36:
the book...........
see dick with gun
see bush run
see dick shot bush in head
see it makes no difference
Are we speaking of "George the Torturer"?
Imagine my surprise....
...
I kinda thought he might join Dick Cheney and Ken Lay in Dubai.
Hey don't forget, McCains his boy.
I hope history is not kind to the Bush Administration.
This administration has undermined ALL Americans and the world.
L.A. Confidential @ 39:
Hey, what are you complaining about. At least he's FINALLY created some JOBS!
(I can just imagine 103 Blackwater cowboys riding shotgun on his motorcade every day, and taking pot-shots at anybody driving a Volvo that gets too close.)
L.A. Confidential @ 39:
103?
how many does bill have?
does that 103 include the ones who will be hangin with the twins and laura?
or is everyone just concerned about the tar and feathering mob that will be haning out waiting for him to walk out the gates in feb 09
Yet Again if he ran for a third term the repugs would find a way to accomplish that task.
NYC @ 45:
Well maybe Obama will unveil the official Bush White House portrait next year.
I wonder if he has surpassed Dick Cheney in unpopularity?
What is even more amazing is that if you look at the site it shows that he started from the HIGHEST approval ratings of any president, too (92%, after guess-what). Kind of like taking a huge budget surplus and turning it into the biggest deficit in the history of time.
["The President", for the past 7+ years, is a conglomerate of neo-cons, republicans, and stinking corporations.
To all of you: Thanks for trashing our Constitution, our laws, our morality, our ethics, our reputation. I hope to hell you all gag on the riches you pilfered from the world "]
A perfect statement. F* every neo-con, republican and stinking corporation for destroying the Unites States. May you all rot in hell. And all those neocons who thought trashing this country to keep Israel safe: Be damned in hell.
Caption:
"Smell my thumb, Mommy. I put poo-poo on the wall. heh heh."
abarts @ 43:
I'm betting on China. He's a hero there. They're already erecting gold statues of Bush next to Mao's statues in Beijing. The man's done more do destroy western impirialism and boost the Chinese economy than anyone in history.
Pericles has it right. The anti-liberal/Fox Network group is still quite strong, so this 19% figure is truly remarkable. Consider that 10% of the public supports any president, just because he's president and they think it's right to do so. In reality, Bush has about 9% support for his policies. Amazing. His base has vanished, totally.
Conclusion? Huge numbers of people have decided that Bush isn't a real conservative. Welcome to the real world, folks! Real conservatives don't run up trillion-dollar deficits fighting a war that can't be won, meanwhile telling us after five years that it will be won.
Real conservatives don't shred civil liberties by spying on Americans, then lie about it. Real conservatives don't think tax cuts are the answer to every economic woe.
There's another factor, I think. Huge numbers of people now realize Bush is an ignoramus.
L.A. Confidential @ 39:
I think the truth about false flag plots and all the like comes from this: In eight years in office, there hasn't been ONE assassination attempt on Bush (and don't give me the BS White House-made up story about the bomb in Georgia that some crazy Russian tried to throw at him).
Ford got shot at twice. FORD!!!
Pericles @ 54:
And here at home also.
http://www.cityofsculpture.org/images/BushStatue.jpg
There are some who would vote for Hitler if he was a Republican.
Number of Operations Iraq Freedom and Enduring Freedom casualties
as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 4425
*sniffs*
big lug, i knew he could do it! whoever said that bush wouldn't set records?
some of you doubted my man, bushy, you said, "no way will he go below 20%"....
well, looks like some y'all owe an apology, you underestimated him.
I said it in 2000, and I will repeat it here, and I will stand by it.
George W. Bush will be the last Republican president. Ever.
He has no skill but for destruction. No desire but for self-aggrandizement. No talent but for waste and wreckage. He is the perfect GOP president. An overspoiled man-child brat who deserves nothing other than to be put over an adult's knee and whipped. He was the perfect lazy, self-centered, status-craving scumbag, bereft of conscience or remorse, to carry out the every depraved whim of the useless scrum of elite upon the rotting corpse of our nation and his party.
Now he has caused irreparable damage to his party, and extended the cracks and fissures of that destruction down into the bedrock of our Nation itself. The United States will be many a long decade filling, filing, and sanding over the repairs, and we will NEVER forget how dangerous it is to allow a clueless jackoff into office. The institutions that put this marble-mouthed imbecile in office are themselves being rapidly rendered irrelevant and inconsequential even as they bray in protest at his passing. Going into obscurity with Bush and the GOP will be the mainstream media. One after the other these decrepit institutions will crumble and collapse and overturn.
But I really do believe that after 2009, the American public will recoil in revulsion when presented with "Republican" or "GOP." There is no turning back. And it was George W. Bush who led them into this morass of irrelevance. Mark my words. You heard it here. The GOP is dead. They just can't smell the stink of their own corpse yet.
To be sure there will be another crowd of braying conservatives who band together and "bravely" anoint themselves the protectors of all that is elite, decent, and privileged, but they will have to make up a new name for themselves and jettison most of the dead weight baggage of their current empty suit front men. It will be awhile before they can field a national candidate for President. In the meantime, it's time for those of us who really care about Americans to shove the Overton window to the left as far and as fast as we can.
FOOL.
slippytoad @ 60:
Well of course. New World Order is the idea.
Naahhh, no way, get out a town.. No, really!!???? Ya don't say...
Well, who woulda thunk.... Gee ya coulda pushed me over with a feather at that revelation.....Waddayaknow. Well Georgie, I guess you got yer lagacy there blud..hope yer happy asshole..JD
He should have gotten most of his destructive actions out of his system by now. Hope he doesn't try to "fix" anything.
L.A. Confidential @ 62:
New World Mess
L.A. Confidential @ 62:
Bush...... "Just as long as I'm the dictator. heh heh."
slippytoad @ 60:
oh, if only you were right...
i submit that the whole dem versus GOP meme is--imho--going to be a relic of the 20th century. the 2 parties have exposed themselves to the public like an old man wearing nothing but a tattered trench coat.
it is hard to see daylight between certain members of these 2 parties. and i hereby predict that the 21st century's political discourse is going to be less partisan based. i think the century of the independent is nigh.
this is not to say that politicians and pundits won't fall into opposing camps, i just don't think they will be based on the current parties. the future political landscape will be divided between corporatists and anti-corporatists...
can i trademark that?
The only reason this dimwit wasn't assasinated was that Cheney was his VP. Nobody likes that prick (either of them.) Oh, and I heard somewhere that if he gets impeached the repugs passed a law that says he gets no Secret Service--aawww fuck, he'd just hire Blackwater anyway.
I could give a flying f**k what polls say about anything. The entire planet has hated this worthless skin sack since 2000.
Nicole,
This is a joke-- your democratically controlled congress is even lower-- they've accomplished NOTHING while in control and they don't have the left wing nuts in the media constantly hammering them because the left is a morally corrupt bunch of liars.
Bush is what kept you save all these years (after the attacks on 9/11 that are directly the fault of clinton).
The leftnuts mercilessly hammer Bush and have tried their damnedest to destroy this country-- now with Obama you'll have the best chance yet.
The left is an offensive disease....our Founding Fathers are turning in their graves because of you red commie socialist fascist thugs--
God help us all-- although y'all are Godless too.
Took "morans" 7 years to almost recognize this POS, traitor, mental midget, child of privilege, fucken TOOL... for what he is. This scourge of the planet along with the puppet master cheny NEED to be removed from office and tried in a real Court of Law.
the ugly duckling? the black sheep? what me worry George?
The fact that he made it so far says something ugly about us. Sad truth.
Richard Green on Air America Radio just thanked John Amato of C&L for this story!
And I hope Bush has more history to make, like the first ex-president to be tried for war crimes, the first to be tried for treason, the first to be convicted of war crimes, etc.
But he's Lincoln lol!
Quiet Burp @ 73:
right on brother
'bout as popular as a fart in church
Elvis @ 70:
Bush's moron followers have spoken! :-)
WHOOOOHOOOO...... DUBYA IS FIRST, AT BEING LAST...
WE WILL ONLY HAVE TO HEAR THAT HE BROKE HIS LAST LOW-POINT 19 MORE TIMES....
WHAT A FUCK-UP...
MY COLLEGE DREAM COME TRUE... I'M GETTING FUCKED BY A COLLEGE CHEERLEADER WITH A BUSH..... GOD HAS AN AWKWARD SENSE OF HUMOR
You'll wonder who that 18-19% approval people are? I work with them everyday. I drive behind them with their Bush/Cheney bumper stickers. I am a Texan enveloped by mental midgets. I just tell them I don't understand it. And I don't. I knew he was a privileged, drugged/alcoholic, asshole before he ran for governor. I thought surely these assholes won't vote for a drugged, alcoholic asshole-but I was wrong. He had a Bush name and that's all it took. See, the republicans only are concerned with the sins of democrats. W could have been a serial killer and they would have voted for him. Funny, since he started the Iraq War he has become a serial murderer.
Elvis @ 70:
Of course, the fact that Bush vetoes any piece of legislation that does not conform to his desires has nothing to do with this. However, you may also have conveniently left out the fact that the public has responded quite favorably to Congress standing up to Bush, and that the real problem they have is with the REPUBLICANS in Congress
The left wing nuts like McCain-humper Chris Matthews, or the screamers at Fox?
Yes, bush kept us "save" after he fucked up and let 9/11 happen, which happened almost 1/5 of the way into his term and could not even remotely be blamed on Clinton, you stumbling fool -- but the price we've paid for being "save" has been our civil liberties and economic well-being. The whimpering, pants-pissing state of yammering fear that our nation was cowed into after 9/11 has passed, thank you, and 80% of us are now awake and see that we are in reality no better off, and that the statistically infinitesimal risk of a terror attack is a price well worth paying for the right to speak our minds without fear.
Do you have facts, logic, or substance to that argument, or are you just chock full of quivering bullshit? Survey says -- the latter! Produce factual statements in support of your assertion or withdraw it immediately.
Is this the best you have? Red Commies? Socialists? Are you old and stupid? Have you been asleep for 17 years? Communism died so long ago that its corpse is old enough to vote! And you do realize that "fascism" is an extreme of right-wing politics, don't you? And it is in fact politically incompatible with Socialism or Communism? Or are you too dumb to understand the labels you carelessly stick to anyone with whom you do not agree? Get back on the short bus, pal, and remember to strap yourself in and wear your headgear.
I'm very proud of my atheism. It sets me apart from people as a sign of my ability to think independently. But not all liberals are godless, and Republicans don't own religion, nor do you have any right whatsoever to claim exclusive ownership of the idea of patriotism. Insinuations that you're more American than liberals or some other such shuddering horseshit do nothing but make you look like a weakminded fool, and an asshole.
But I thought it was the Clinton's that we hated and blame for every thing that has gone wrong in the history of the world!
Hmm!
Good thing the people in Africa don't have our media. At every stop on the tour the President has been on he has been greeted warmly and embraced kindly for all that he has done for the peoples there. I can't recall any Democratic politician being hailed with so much affection on the African continent. Maybe all of that will change when Obama is president.
slippytoad @ 80:
DAmmn............they really came out of the woodwork today.
Just A Grunt @ 82:
Yeah, I guess if they can't read, and don't have TV they probably think Bush is OK. Kind of like "Elvis" up there -- ignorance is bliss.
mudshark @ 83:
Do you mean "they" as in the paid right-wing trolls who seem to swarm in droves whenever the political future of the ruling elite is at risk?
That's odd. Reuters just released a poll saying his numbers are up to (a still dismal) 34%. And Congress is all the way up to 17%!
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1948614520080220?feedTy...
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Growing confidence in the future and slightly warmer views of President George W. Bush and Congress put Americans in a better mood this month, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
The Reuters/Zogby Index, which measures the mood of the country, rose sharply to 99.3 in February from last month's 94.2, putting it at the highest level since August.
Approval ratings for Bush climbed to 34 percent from 31 percent last month, and positive ratings for Congress inched up from 14 percent to a still-low 17 percent.
Concerns about personal finances, job security, safety and the direction of the country all eased at least slightly in the last month, brightening the outlook for Americans who had slipped into a funk around the holidays.
There were some dark clouds. For the first time, a majority of Americans, 54 percent, expect a recession in the next year, up from last month's 48 percent, as a housing downturn and credit crunch take their toll.
Despite worries about a recession, the number of Americans who think the country is on the wrong track shrank to a still-high 62 percent, down from 68 percent.
"People are adjusting their expectations. They see a recession coming but they still feel better about their future," pollster John Zogby said.
The mood swing followed a month in which Bush and Congress worked together to approve a package of measures designed to give a short-term boost to the economy, while U.S. deaths from the war in Iraq continued to fade from the headlines.
The intense interest in the U.S. presidential race as voting began across the United States, with compelling races in both political parties capturing public attention, turned the debate from the present, Zogby said.
FOCUS ON FUTURE
"The focus now is on the future. There is going to be a new president and a new Congress and people feel good about that," he said.
Eight of the 10 measures of public opinion used in the Index rose, with one dropping slightly and one staying the same.
The number of Americans who feel very secure in their jobs jumped 7 points in a month, to 50 percent from 43 percent, and the number who gave positive marks to their personal financial situations climbed to 56 percent from 52 percent.
Positive marks for the Bush administration's foreign policy climbed 5 points to 28 percent from 23 percent, but approval ratings for economic policy stayed exactly the same at a low 22 percent.
More Americans feel very safe from foreign threats and more are fairly or very proud of the United States, but the number of Americans confident their children will have a better life fell slightly to 64 percent.
The Index combines responses to 10 questions on Americans' views about their leaders, the direction of the country and their future. Index polling began in July, and that month's results provide the benchmark score of 100.
A score above 100 indicates the public mood has improved since July. A score below 100, like the one this month, shows the mood has soured since July.
The RZI is released on the third Wednesday of each month.
The telephone poll of 1,105 likely voters, taken Wednesday through Saturday, had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Just A Grunt @ 82:
I'm sure that was just another photo-op where they hand picked people who were willing to stick to their official script.
Even if they have to pay people to cheer for this guy, they'll be able to dig up enough bodies for a quick photo.
19% won't keep congress from caving.