"Disfavor for Bush Hits Rare Heights"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/24/AR2007072402263_pf.html

Disfavor for Bush Hits Rare Heights
In Modern Era, Only Nixon Scored Worse, And Only Truman Was Down for So Long

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 25, 2007; A03

President Bush is a competitive guy. But this is one contest he would rather lose. With 18 months left in office, he is in the running for most unpopular president in the history of modern polling.

The latest Washington Post-ABC News survey shows that 65 percent of Americans disapprove of Bush's job performance, matching his all-time low. In polls conducted by The Post or Gallup going back to 1938, only once has a president exceeded that level of public animosity -- and that was Richard M. Nixon, who hit 66 percent four days before he resigned.

The historic depth of Bush's public standing has whipsawed his White House, sapped his clout, drained his advisers, encouraged his enemies and jeopardized his legacy. Around the White House, aides make gallows-humor jokes about how they can alienate their remaining supporters -- at least those aides not heading for the door. Outside the White House, many former aides privately express anger and bitterness at their erstwhile colleagues, Bush and the fate of his presidency.

Bush has been so down for so long that some advisers maintain it no longer bothers them much. It can even, they say, be liberating. Seeking the best interpretation for the president's predicament, they argue that Bush can do what he thinks is right without regard to political cost, pointing to decisions to send more U.S. troops to Iraq and to commute the sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff.

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Bush Approval Rating Down to 25%
Posted by Stephanie Taylor on July 23, 2007 at 02:20 PM

With just hours until the first Democratic Party-sanctioned debate, we learn that President Bush's approval ratings have fallen to record lows. Again.

According to a new American Research Group poll, just 25% of Americans approve of the way President Bush is handling his job as president and 71% disapprove. When it comes to Bush's handling of the economy, 23% approve and 73% disapprove.

inner circle to withstand the criticism? They certainly didn't make Bill Clinton's mistake and put a member of the opposite party in a prosecutorial position that might hurt them.

The only thing that can bring Bush-Cheney down now is having the whole right-wing media circus a'gin them.

it might have been said quiet seriously.

Of course, there have always been, as there are today, politicians who, as far as the political realities will allow, stay true to their convictions, but was there ever a dictator who wasn't a 'conviction' politician, come hell or high water?

I've had it

not that it makes any difference

and, Len Downie, to you, in particular, a VERY hellish afterlife, if there is one

and if there isn't, let the hairy thunderer conjure up one just for YOU

Len

you smug fascist enabler

"right"?? Farrrrr right. Let's paraphrase this ...

Smirk and Sneer know they can get away with ANYTHING ... WITHOUT fear of any disciplinary action.

None.

"Around the White House, aides make gallows-humor jokes about how they can alienate their remaining supporters -- at least those aides not heading for the door."

LoL

You know things must be bad when the White house aides sit around saying "Hmm, so who can we piss off next that still supports us?" as a joke.

get why the party hasn't taken him down yet ala Nixon. It makes no sense.

the use made by the politicans of the putative polls for damage limitation purposes (not the Iraqi woman, personally, of course), we need to reflect on something the Iraqi woman in exile in Jordan said, namely: Only (...ONLY) 21% of Iraqis believe that the US presence has worsened the security situation in Iraq!!!!! I don't believe that a 'bona fide' pollster would find half that number sharing that opinion in an institution for the mentally retarded. Heck, even the ones causing the insecurity wouldn't believe that!

And George's popularity rating is claimed to be only 4 percentage points higher.

Barely held in check rage and anger is more accurate.