(ABC) State of the Union: Unhappy With Bush (33 % Approval Lowest Since Nixon Entering SOTU)

[sabra]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/PollVault/story?id=2811599&page=1


State of the Union: Unhappy With Bush
Bush's 33 Percent Approval Rating Lowest Since Nixon for President Entering State of the Union Speech

Jan. 22, 2007 — President Bush faces the nation this week more unpopular than any president on the eve of a State of the Union address since Richard Nixon in 1974.

Nixon was beleaguered by the Watergate scandal; for Bush, three decades later, it's the war in Iraq. With his unpopular troop surge on the table, his job rating matches the worst of his presidency: Thirty-three percent of Americans approve of his work in office while 65 percent disapprove, 2-1 negative, matching his career low last May.

Only three postwar presidents have gone lower — Jimmy Carter, Nixon and Harry Truman. And only one has had a higher disapproval rating, Nixon.

For Bush, the bad news just starts there. Dismay over the unpopular war is dragging him down across the board, from his personal ratings to his position vis-à-vis the resurgent Democrats. It's all a remarkable comedown for a president who, shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, saw his approval rating soar to the highest for any president in polls since 1938.

[CJCRANE]

1. 65 per cent DISapproval n/t

[roamer65]

2. He's heading to Bob Taft approval ratings, folks.

He'll be in the teens by next year. It's gonna be fun to watch the RMS Rethuglitanic sink.

[Amonester]

3. SIXTY FIVE PERCENT DISapprove bu$hitliar

65%!!

So, is their IMPEACHMENT "back on the table" yet?

[caledesi]

22. 71% of women oppose the war. We are in the majority in the US.

Buh, bye *.

[OKNancy]

4. kick

[DeepModem Mom]

5. WP: Confidence in Bush Leadership Continues to Drop, Poll Finds

Confidence in Bush Leadership Continues to Drop, Poll Finds
By Dan Balz and Jon Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, January 22, 2007; 7:00 AM

President Bush will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday at the weakest point of his presidency, with dissatisfaction over his Iraq war policies continuing to rise and confidence in his leadership continuing to decline, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

With a major confrontation between Congress and the president brewing over Iraq, Americans overwhelmingly oppose Bush's plan to send an additional 21,500 troops to the conflict. By wide margins, they prefer that congressional Democrats, who now hold majorities in both chambers, take the lead in setting the direction for the country rather than the president.

Iraq dominates the national agenda, with 48 percent of Americans calling the war the single most important issue they want Bush and the Congress to deal with this year. No other issue rises out of single digits.

The poll also finds that the public trusts congressional Democrats over Bush to deal with the conflict by a margin of 60 percent to 33 percent.

The president will use his speech to try to rally public opinion behind his troop deployment plan, but during the past 10 days he has made no headway in changing public opinion. The Post-ABC poll shows that 65 percent of Americans oppose sending more troops to Iraq, compared to 61 percent who opposed the plan when the president unveiled it Jan. 10 in a nationally televised address....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/22/AR2007012200236.html?nav=hcmodule

[soothsayer]

6. bwa ha ha! Everyone hates this jerk

[Dhalgren]

7. Is it Dictatorship, yet?

How much longer will everyone put up with this shit? The Bush junta has put into place all the mechanisms they will need to clamp down on the upheaval that is coming. When will it happen? Or will we just roll over, as a people, and let him continue to murder in our name? Is this what they call a "democracy"? Is this, in the end, what we really are? I, for one, am ready for the Constitutional crisis! It is past time to bring this thing to a stop. If the congress will not bring Bush down, then it is up to the People to do it and I am not confident that enough of us will throw our bodies onto the gears. This has got to stop, now...

[Demeter]

8. It's All Over But the Screaming, Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth

This dictatorship is collapsing like the overwrought souffle it's always been. Too much air, too little substance.

[Dhalgren]

11. But the point seems to be that Bush doesn't care what the people

thing or decide. He will have to be stopped, he won't do it on his own. And 33% support is plenty to sustain a dictatorship. I don't think just falling support is going to do the trick. He will have to be stopped by something...

[Demeter]

12. Absolutely He Must BE Stopped

and even the GOP is coming to that realization....

it's gonna take a bi-partisan disgust and survival instinct to rid of us this regime, and it's happening. October, by my crystal ball...

[Dhalgren]

15. From your lips to the Goddess' ear! I hope we can make it to October...

[LynnTheDem]

9. Democrats; 60%. bush the MFing failure; 33%.

Gee, appears we have a MANDATE.

[llmart]

23. Oh, that's a good one..........

yes, that statement says it all.

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[KansDem]

14. LOL!!!

So succinct and to the point...

So true...

:thumbsup:

[gratuitous]

13. Will this seep into the on-air media?

Will the notion that Bush is not trusted by a huge portion of the people make any difference whatsoever in the reporting on this crooked administration? Will anyone make the obvious statement that any unsupported assertion by Bush during his State of the Whatever address should be viewed with the utmost skepticism?

Or are we in for two more years of watching the media nod along with whatever bullshit the administration is peddling like so many bobbleheads in an SUV commercial?

[bdamomma]

16. I would love to see * have a meltdown while giving the SOTU

wishful thinking???

[tridim]

17. Maybe, he'll certainly have to avoid the fake-Texas-cowboy mode

It's the only personality of his where he's the least bit comfortable. Unfortunately his other personality, deer-in-the-headlights isn't going to play well to anyone, especially after the last Iraq speech.

Hopefully this'll set up a mental conflict and he'll start joking about his farts or something.

[Doctor_J]

21. Remember him boasting about killing people?

"Let's just say they're not a problem any more". Probably won't be any of that tomorrow.

[young_at_heart]

18. Will McCain hug him again? Will he kiss Leiberman?

I once had respect for McCain.....after the "hugging" photo I lost ALL respect!

[mvd]

19. Let's hope that..

Bush ends up with the same results, only with removal added and no pardon.

[Doctor_J]

20. What will happen if he melts down tomorrow night?

-starts cursing and babbling, sweating, and talking nonsense? Or at least uttering phrases that even the wingers on Cabal News can't spin into anything good?

[Raine]

24. WHY would Carter

and Truman have gone lower??? :shrug: I can't see that anything they did would have been worse than what chimp has done or why they should have been disliked more. :-(

[Moloch]

25. Bush Poll Ratings Before Speech Fall to Nixon's Level

Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush's approval ratings are now the lowest for any president the day before a State of the Union speech since Richard Nixon in 1974, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Sixty-five percent of those surveyed said they disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as president while 33 percent approve. The rating matches Bush's career low in a May 2006 poll.

Seventy-one percent of Americans said the country is on the wrong track, up from 46 percent in an April 2003 poll, the month after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. A majority of those polled this month don't approve of how Bush is handling the Iraq war, terrorism or the economy.

Bush, who addresses the nation before a joint session of Congress tomorrow, will face many members of his own party who blame him for Republicans' losing majority control of the House and Senate in the November 2006 midterm elections.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20670001&refer=&sid=a.aveoiqdgBU

[graywarrior]

26. Maybe he'll resign.

[Crunchy Frog]

27. That would probably manage to bring his poll ratings up.

About the only thing that could, by now.

[silverojo]

28. And maybe pigs will fly out of his butt, too

:rofl: