Bush approval rating on the economy slips to 34 percent.

tjwash

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Mon May-08-06 11:29 AM
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Bush approval rating on the economy slips to 34 percent.

Edited on Mon May-08-06 11:31 AM by tjwash

Bush's overall approval rating has plunged to 34% from 43% at the beginning of 2006, according to the poll. The president also received his lowest marks ever on the economy - 34% approval.

The name of the news story is "Focus on the good news - Bush" so that's what I am doing here. The lower his approval, the better the news for us. Before, what was driving Bush's approval rating down, was his mismanagement of the war. Now people have finally started to notice that he is running the U.S. economy like he is running the war.

Washington - President George W. Bush, battling a slump in his poll ratings, expressed frustration on Friday that bad news from Iraq is drowning out "good news" on the US economy.

Once again, this administrations true colors are showing. They just don't care about anyone but the top 5% that control all of the wealth in this country. The "good news" on the economy is that the upper 5 percent of "haves" and "have-mores" is doing just great, and the middle class, which is the backbone of capitalism, is disappearing. Go ahead, crow about the stock market. It's all pumped up numbers, and the profits are at the cost of the laying off of American workers, and outsourcing them to pennies on the dollar overseas labor. The rest is price gouging energy companies that are free to do as they please with these bastards in power. They even had a lower than projected job growth for April, consisting of 138000 "jobs" that were created. Of course they are all McJobs, and Wal-jobs. Low wages, no benefits, no future. Just like our country under this mis-administration.

"The problem is that we're in war, and sometimes it's hard for people to get a positive message about the economy when they're troubled by ... scenes of violence on the TV screens," the president said.

Fuck you shrub. What happened to:

Flip-flopper.

And, From the guardian...

This week's survey of 1,000 adults, including 865 registered voters, found:

- Just 33 percent of the public approves of Bush's job performance, the lowest of his presidency. That compares with 36 percent approval in early April. Forty-five percent of self-described conservatives now disapprove of the president.

- Just one-fourth of the public approves of the job Congress is doing, a new low in AP-Ipsos polling and down 5 percentage points since last month. A whopping 65 percent of conservatives disapprove of Congress.

- A majority of Americans say they want Democrats rather than Republicans to control Congress (51 percent to 34 percent). That's the largest gap recorded by AP-Ipsos since Bush took office. Even 31 percent of conservatives want Republicans out of power.

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Rose Siding

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Mon May-08-06 11:31 AM
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1. Keep talking, Jr

It always works against you.

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tjwash

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Mon May-08-06 11:46 AM
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2. I guess everything considerred...

...catching a damn fish probably WOULD be his high point.

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