Bush fighting to regain confidence of Americans

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five months after starting his second term with high hopes, President Bush is struggling to regain the confidence of Americans concerned about the direction of the
Iraq war and the U.S. economy.

With his job approval rating slumping to 42 percent in a poll by The New York Times and CBS News, down from 51 percent in the aftermath of the November election, Bush has begun an effort to refocus his presidency -- a move welcomed by anxious Republicans.

"I think Bush is in the process of regaining his footing, and focusing on real dinner-table issues," Republican consultant Scott Reed said.

Bush began his second term in January with an ambitious plan to overhaul the Social Security retirement program but it has failed to gain traction on Capitol Hill and many Americans are skeptical. The preoccupation over Social Security figured in the delay of his promised attempt to overhaul the tax code.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050619/pl_nm/bush_dc

[Deja Q]

1. He'd have it easier of he said

"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Look at me! (jumps up and down) Waaaaaaaaaaaaah! Waaaaaaaaaaaaah! Look at me you poopyhead! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!"

Americans looooooooooove babies.

And what's a "real dinner table issue" anyway? That reminds me, the vegetarian low-fat pizza is in the oven, better get it out...

[rocktivity]

27. "WAAHHHH! NOBODY LIKES ME ANYMORE!"

"Just because some mean ol' people in England have given them reason to believe that I did make up the WMD story! If I knew who they were, I'd TELL MY DADDY ON THEM! WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"

:headbang:
rocknation

[Benhurst]

2. Bush* should just bugger off. NT

[TwentyFive]

3. Tricky Dick is thinking, "Hey, now there's a guy who makes me look good!"

Nixon must be down in the fires of Hell, and looking on Bush with amusement.

BTW...anybody know how his ratings compare with Nixon during the 2nd term? Bush must get a shiver up his spine, every time he walks past that picture of Tricky Dick in the hallway.

[ms.smiler]

9. Nixon's approval rating at the end of his presidency was 24% n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

36. Dat leaves the Shrub a cushion of 18%. Wonder if anyone

has told him.

[katsy]

46. one needs a conscience...

to feel any remorse.

bush is an amoral sociopath.

[NYC Liberal]

4. "regaining his footing" -- from WHEN??

I thought he had a man-date!

[Fridays Child]

5. Hmm.... Samurai warriors...

..committed seppaku to restore their honor.

[acmavm]

6. How in the world does one convince millions of people that they're not

a lying sack of shit after its been proven to be the case over and over and over.

Eventually the proverbial 'if it walks like and duck and talks like a duck' syndrome has to kick in.

[rocktivity]

28. With apologies to the Stephanie Miller Show

You lying pile of crap
You lying pile of crap!
You rotten, scheming
low-down, steaming
pile of lying crap!

:headbang:
rocknation

[mzmolly]

7. It's easy.

RED ALERT, RED ALERT!!! HEAD FOR THE HILLS, BUY SOME DUCK TAPE!

You know the drill.

[Cocoa]

8. dinner table issues

like attacking the dems as "obstructionists," and attacking Amnesty International, and attacking Dick Durbin, and attacking Newsweek, and attacking anyone else that might take the attention away from his failures.

[NeoConsSuck]

20. And let's not forget the Red Cross!

[confludemocrat]

10. Translation of headline"...fighting to keep public buying lies"nt

[cascadiance]

24. More like "Trying to avoid prison time after his term is up!"

Pretty soon it will be hard to find a jury to let him off once we put him on trial if he somehow escapes going to jail. Just watch though... He'll give a pardon to Cheney before he resigns, and Cheney will turn around and pardon him before Cheney gets punked! Or the other way around if they are outed in reverse order!

[AgadorSparticus]

11. and with gems like Iraq=911, I doubt he'll get much confidence, either.

[clydefrand]

12. Shall we tell him he ain't got a chance.

[marbuc]

13. Dinner table issues...

like abortion, guns, and Terri Schiavo? I know at my dinner table we talk about how much of an idiot he is, and how he is an embarrassment to our country.

[Up2Late]

14. "...and focusing on real dinner-table issues..."

"I think Bush is in the process of regaining his footing, and focusing on real dinner-table issues," Republican consultant Scott Reed said.

What an idiot! I can just here * out on the road in
Po-dunk Texas, "It's about Meat and Potatoes, See! See, The Meat comes from Cows, and we got a lotta' Cows in AMERRica..."

[annabanana]

30. Loooove your little "furious"

(stole him)

[MichiganVote]

15. These guys are a real joke. They talk Iraq and try to lead people off it.

"I think Bush is in the process of regaining his footing, and focusing on real dinner-table issues," Republican consultant Scott Reed said."

Such a quaint way of reaching out to the middle class...

[Cha]

16. scott reed is fulla

Shite like every other apologist for bush.

[marbuc]

22. Is he related to Ralph?

[MichiganVote]

23. And the stench can be smelled a mile off. Not worth the consultancy fee

[dArKeR]

17. What's Shit-For-Brains doing smiling/playing at Camp David while

our children are being hourly murdered in Iraq? Shouldn't the President of the USA lock himself into the WH until the situation is solved?

[GetTheRightVote]

18. Yes, what building will be hit by the next terror plane ??

* is so tranparent these days.

:kick:

[ixion]

19. dinner table issues: Crimes Against Humanity

Let's talk about impeaching this maladmin and sending them off to face justice in the Hague.

[fasttense]

21. In comparison to Nixon

Interview Date: January 22-28, 1969 from the Gallup poll
In view of the developments since we entered the fighting in Vietnam, do you think the United States made a mistake sending troops to fight in Vietnam?
Yes 52%
No 39%
No Opinion 9%

The numbers are similar to Bush's

From USA Today 12 June 2005, "In the Gallup Poll, 56% say the Iraq war wasn't "worth it," essentially matching the high-water mark of 57% a month ago."

From CNN 23 May 2005 -- "A majority of Americans do not believe it was worth going to war in Iraq, according to a national poll released Tuesday.

Fifty-seven percent of those polled said they did not believe it was worth going to war, versus 41 percent who said it was.

Americans appeared evenly divided over whether the decision to send U.S. troops to Iraq was a mistake, with 49 percent saying yes and 48 percent saying no."

It is not clear how they asked the question. But the Iraq war and the Vietnam war have very similar poll numbers.

[Carolab]

25. W. Take your hand out of my pocket.

And slowly back away.

[killbotfactory]

26. The more Bush talks, the worse he does

Keep talking, Bush. Just keep talking.

[DemoTex]

29. If 51% is a "Man-Date", what - pray - is 42%?

Maybe 42% is the result of being Gannon-less for so long. Maybe Bu$h needs another pitcher to service him with some soft balls.

[unhappycamper]

42. A girle-man-date?

:toast:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Triana]

31. I DON'T THINK SO...

...asshole. People realize they've been duped - finally, and that their kids were sent to die for a pack of pretentions lies in a 'war' that is purely based on oil and profits for bu$h's defense industry buddies.

THAT, and the US used napalm (considered a WMD) over there and they LIED about that too, oh and there's the prisoner abuse and torture and the fact that Iraq WAS NOT a hotbed of terrorist activity until bu$hit invaded over there (it is NOW) so that means he only made the probelm WORSE. Osama could not have in all his wildest DREAMS asked for a better recruiter to his cause than george w. bu$h. Shall I go on?

GEORGE BUSH IS A TERRORIST and a LIAR. He's no better than Saddam or the rest of them. HE IS PART OF THE PROBLEM. I cannot believe he isn't in PRISON yet. If Gitmo is SUCH a wonderful place, let's send him there...he can choose between chicken and fish and two kinds of fruit before we put the electrodes on his testicles.... ;)

[Robeson]

32. Yeah, right Georgie. I know at my dinner table all we talk about...

...is wanting to give more tax breaks to the obscenely filthy rich. The hell with my family and the rest of 99% of America. The hell with universal medical care, the hell with crumbling infrastructures, the hell with the environment, the hell with civil rights, the hell with a piss poor public education system. Yeah, at my dinner table, it just makes us happy to know we can give our national treasure to you and your buddies, so that the fraction of a percentage point that you guys represent, can continue to live like potentates....:grr:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

33. "Promised attempt to overhaul the tax code," A.K.A. National Sales Tax...

...the FINAL item on his "agenda" that he's going to attempt before he's completely written off as a lame duck.

Pray to God, or whoever / whatever you pray to, that this NEVER HAPPENS.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1864906

[BenDavid]

34. I recall a good line from the movie

JFK, and it was Senator Long that said, and I apply it to Bush," things ain't been the same, since we got that polecat Lyndon in the White House".
Oh my, I am wondering just how slowwwwwwwwww he will speak if he addresses the nation.
Oh, and by the way, the next time you happen to watch the movie, "Gladiator" with Russell Crowe, and the character of Commodus played by Joaquin Phoenix, see if the remarks made by the Senators about the new Ceasar fits bush to a tee...... one I can recall off hand.... " He enters Rome like a conquering hero". ", Yes, but what has he conquered?"

[DoYouEverWonder]

35. Let me ask you

Does this look like someone who gives a shit?

[Robeson]

38. Short answer: No.

[leQ]

37. so when's the next terror threat level raised? (eom)

[stray cat]

39. Bush could start by telling Americans the truth instead of lying.

[sendero]

40. Funny thing about trust and confidence...

.... once it is lost, it is very difficult to regains. Fool me once and all that :)

[mikita]

41. well the lying sack of shits MSM are probably lying here too...

it's probably really 24% approval, and has been that way for months.

I don't trust any of them, or ANY polls. This country is so knee-deep in lies and twisted thinking, it's driving me to drink (more)....which I'm doing right now....

[rocktivity]

43. CONFIDENCE?

When the Downing Street Minutes have blown away any resonable doubt that he KNEW there were no WMDs?

When he's still claiming that 9/11 justifies his invasion of Iraq though it's been proven that http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47812-2004Jun16.html">one had nothing to do with the other?

That "fighting terrorists in Iraq so you will not have to face them at home" is a sane military strategy?

When he prefers cutting Social Security benefits and increasing national debt to raising the salary cap?

When he's stood up for Terri Schiavo but not Baby Sun Hudson?

When military recruiters are under so much pressure they're kidnapping prospects?

When new recruits are STILL being advised to buy their own armor?

When members of the National Guard are waiting on expense reimbursement a month after Halliburton received a multi-MILLION-dollar performance bonus?

WHY THE HELL SHOULD ANYONE HAVE CONFIDENCE IN HIM?

:grr:
rocknation

[recycledindi]

44. right

goooooood luck chimpster

[wanpete]

45. Ain't gonna happen. The truth is starting to break through all the lies

[antonialee839]

47. He should hang up his gloves

he's fighting a losing battle.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

48. The White House is now scrambling to right the ship.?

They might need a few people who know how to sail a ship of state. Not those who to play to people's fears.

As the first Republican president Abe Lincoln said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time. Some of the people all of the time. But you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

[struggle4progress]

49. Apologizing and resigning might boost confidence. eom

[Ishoutandscream2]

50. WAIT JUST ONE MINUTE!!!!!

I thought these folks ignored polls. Oh well, just one more lie.

[shanti]

51. he's a confidence man alright...

:eyes:

[ryanmuegge]

52. "Pocketbook issues?"

That takes a lot of fucking nerve coming from a bunch of thugs bent on destroying what little is left of the middle class for the benefit of the super-rich few. It's unfortunate that they won't reveal to the public the real specifics and motives behind their "pocketbook" agenda.

I'm guessing the real meaning of this alleged shift is that they will refrain from talking about Social Security and get back to "pocketbook," "dinner-table" issues like gays and abortion. More of the same from these pricks. I'm sure they'll go back to exploiting 9/11 again for political gain (Bush has already done this with his recent, infamous Iraq = 9/11 statement). They'll go back to their strengths: focusing on wedge issues.

[njdemocrat106]

53. I never had any confidence in * BEFORE he was selected president

You hear that Chimpy? You and your fellow neo-conservative fascists have been doing a damn good job bringing America back to the 19th century.

[progressivebydesign]

54. They tried shipping Laura off to the Middle East.. that didn't work n/t