Bush 34, Congressional Democrats 14 The new Reuters poll is out and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have pulled an upset: They have managed to make George Walker Bush twice as popular as Congress. An even bigger majority, 83 percent, say the Democratic-controlled Congress is doing only a fair or poor job — the worst mark for Congress in a Zogby poll. In the national survey of 1,012 likely voters, taken July 12 through July 14, about 66 percent said Bush had done only a fair or poor job as president, with 34 percent ranking his performance as excellent or good. While 83 percent said Congress was doing a fair or poor job, just 14 percent rated it excellent or good. Last October, in its final days, the Republican-led Congress earned ratings of excellent or good from 23 percent of voters. Got that? The Democratic Party gets 14% job approval. Bush 34%. If this were a Little League game, the 10-run rule would apply. Congressional Democrats are spinning their wheels trying to “get” George Bush. Democrats promised not to waste their time impeaching Bush. That is what they are doing. The public disdain for Democrats is overwhelming. It took 12 years for Republicans to drop to 23%. Dems already are down to 14%. That means even Mom is starting to wonder about you. 14% job approval. Nixon did better. On the day he left office! Hat tip: Matt Drudge, the scourge of the Democratic Party. Bwa-ha-ha. UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit: “As I’ve noted before, this has gone past the point of being funny. It’s really worrisome.” There certainly is a flaw in our process. And we dare mock the fledgling Iraqi democracy.
Ein Pelosivvurstl mit käse und Bier, Bitte. "And we dare mock the fledgling Iraqi democracy." The fledgling Iraqi democracy has three heads, one of which is always in seizure, while the other two heads fight with each other. Let that freak baby-bird die, or shoot it. Making this go on is sicker than sick.
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the comparison is not valid you must look at congress against congress and the reason congress is polling so low is not stopping bush which reflects poorly on him
That's Congress, not "the Democrats". The Dems have no real majority at all in the Senate, and a scant one in the House - where they are not the monolithic ideological bloc the Republicans have been recently. They haven't been able to get much done. They can't even override a W veto, let alone impeach him (or Cheney) and get the war under adult management. And of course the media is running its usual slant - six years of incompetent and criminal operation is not fixed in six months by newly elected Dem rookies against hardcore Presidential opposition, and so the Dems fail. Not fixing Rep mismanagement is Dem failure. I can understand why failure to override the recent Republican agenda would make any Congress unpopular. I just don't see where that translates into anyone's dislike of their local Dem Congressman.
Your opinion, but from what I read and hear on the talk shows, people want the Democrats to get on with the Business of the Country, Reduction in the size of the Government, Security of the Nation, and control of our Borders, and the Democrats have failed to do any of that, instead they have concentrated on endless investigations of a President who will be gone in less than 2 years, Playing games with the funding of the Military, and a constant verbal assault on the Troops in Iraq, and a very public push for with drawl/cut and run, and the people have become disgusted with the Leadership of the Demorats and it shows in the polls. ps: The Republicans have learned very well from the 7 years watching the delaying, filibustering, blocking legislation, and Tactics that the Democrats used to stop the Business of the Nation from being accomplished. Good for the Goose, good for the Gander.
The public is very unhappy about Iraq, and the Democrats look ineffective in stopping it. Believe me, these ratings do not make Bush or the Republicans look good. My only question is why Bush would throw the Republican party to the dogs like this. Don't they care that 2008 will be a Democratic landslide? (congress almost always has lower ratings than the president)
The reason approval of Congress is so low is because REPUBLICANS aren't listening to the American people and are continuously blocking everything that the majority of Americans want. The most recent example of this is this weeks' REPUBLICAN filibuster of the Levin/Reed bill calling for troop withdrawal of American forces to begin in 120 days. Don't be fooled, Americans, by the REPUBLICAN propaganda (lie) machine. I'm about to start a new thread in the politics forum about REPUBLICAN ABUSES over the last 6 years, when they controlled the House, Senate and White House. It's title is REPUBLICAN ABUSES FROM 2001 to 2007.
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Really? it seems the Republicans listened to the People over the Immigration Bill, did the Democrats? NO, Harry Reid tried his best to shove that piece of crap down our throats, and the American People spoke loud and clear, The Borders First, the Employers Second, and the Illegals out on their Ass's, and come back legally. There is one of the reasons that the Democrats are in the toilet with the American People. The other thing that the Demorats are no in touch with is the Security Issues, and the unending verbal attacks by Murtha, Reid, Pelosi, Boxer, Durban, Kerry, Clinton, against our Soldiers in Iraq. The Demorats don't want to understand that the American People want us out of Iraq with a victory, and not a Vietnam Style Debacle that lets millions be killed by the Terrorist. The last thing that the Demorats don't seem to understand is that there isn't a massive push by the American People, for them to Impeach the President, the People are tired of the endless politically motivated investigations into the Presidency, if they wanted this they would have given the Demorat a larger majority, but they didn't they gave them a slim majority with the idea that they were suppose to work with the Republicans, not for them to go off on their own witch hunts. Go on and post your thread; I can provide a plethora of Democratic abuses for the same time period.
"against our soldiers"? Sorry, that lame talking point doesn't work, since many of our soldiers feel the same way. Besides, soldiers don't make our foriegn policy, we do. I'm sure they would rather not get killed just to buy time for the Iraqi parliment to find a political solution. Meanwhile, that parliment is going on vacation this summer.
Because the Democrats won't defund the War. That's why the poll numbers are low. We're trying to do it the humane way, by offering bills that will bring the troops home. But the American people didn't vote the Democrats in to conintue the War, or propose Bills. They voted the Dems in to DEFUND the war. And once they do, the poll numbers will skyrocket. While the Neocons are crying, kicking, and screaming.
I thought the worst Congress ever was the one from 2000 to January 2007, you know, the one that was known as the rubber stamp Congress that got us into a war with lies, grew the biggest bureaucracy in history and sunk us into the deepest debt ever yet STILL not accomplishing one single thing throughout. With REpublicans steering all branches of their big gubmint. BR you are so out of touch with the real world you deserve to be a REpublican! America remembers what YOUR Party has done to the country and the world over the last 7 years. Payback's a bitch.
Why won't the Democrats defund the war? could it be that they fear the back lash from such a move? if that is what the people truly want the Demorats could ram through a bill doing so, and leave it to the President to Veto the Bill and in doing so draw a line in the sand, but the Demorats have their internal polls, and guess what, I'll bet they show that the American People don't want a Pull OUT to Defeat, that the American Public doesn't want another Massacre like the one that took place after we pulled out of Vietnam, and I think the Poll shows that the American People know that if we pull out of Iraq now that the war will come top our shores, and the next battle will be for Main Street America, the Immigration Debate showed just that, The American People want Security First, and that means keeping the Fight off of our shores, and away from our streets.
Still doesn't answer the question, if the Demorats believe that the America Voter really wants a end to the War in Iraq why don't they just de-fund the war? Draw that line in the sand against the President? It should be a winner for them to do so in the next election, if that is what the vast majority of the American Electorate wants, or do their internals show that it would cut their throat in the next election.
Allow me to explain: We have got to de-Fun the war first. That's what's happening now. Of course you can deny it. But stop making fun of the war, you cretin.
And that is what the House is for, they control the Power of the Purse, they are the ones who allocate the money, and the house is Controlled by the Democrats, and they have shown that they can ram through a Bill to de-fund the War if necessary, they did it with their Troop with-drawl, Time Table attachment to the Military Spending Bill, so again tell me why if it is such a winner with the American Electorate that the Demorats haven't de-funded the war, drawn that line in the sand for the President, to do so if you are correct would be a winner in the next election, but as I have said the internals show a whole different story, to de-fund the war de-funds the troops in harms way and the American People won't stand for that, they want a win, and they want our borders secure, and if there is a forced with-drawl the war comes home to Main Street America, it doesn't end in Iraq, or Afghanistan, al Quaida doesn't just pack up and go back to their mud huts, even if we with drew from the world stage the Islamic Terrorist would not leave us alone, their goal is world Islamic dominance.
