WaPo: Disfavor for Bush Hits Rare Heights

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/24/AR2007072402263.html

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; Page 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.

But the president's unpopularity has left the White House to play mostly defense for the remainder of his term. With his immigration overhaul proposal dead, Bush's principal legislative hopes are to save his No Child Left Behind education program and to fend off attempts to force him to change course in Iraq. The emerging strategy is to play off a Congress that is also deeply unpopular and to look strong by vetoing spending bills.

The president's low public standing has paralleled the disenchantment with the Iraq war, but some analysts said it goes beyond that, reflecting a broader unease with Bush's policies in a variety of areas. "It isn't just the Iraq war," said Shirley Anne Warshaw, a presidential scholar at Gettysburg College. "It's everything."

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with the "really seem" as a soft buffer...since Americans Hate Bush might be considered too harsh...lol

Point being....headlines often add a buffer or ambiguous wording to take the sting out

point higher than Bush's is currently. Wow! I'll bet if we had the same type of media now as we did back during Watergate, Bush would be long gone.

I hear the word HATE a lot.

It's been tortured.

He doesn't seem to "give a shit" WHAT we think NOW that he's SO LOW?

He's NEVER GIVEN A SHIT what WE the People think..

What a bunch of ass suckers we have in the Media... when will the Horror end?

What fucking PLANET is this? :)

oh oh look out here comes another hurricane Katrina II

This is what Congressional Democrats don't seem to get. They think it is all about Iraq...They think if they solve the Iraq Occupation everything will be all right. They need to understand the US Government has been taken over by a gang of Criminal thugs and Congress is the only body that can do anything about it. If they fail to act they will have betrayed our nation.