http://www.msnbc.com/news/969204.asp?0cl=c1Normally a president gets a boost in the polls when he addresses the nation from the White House. But President Bush’s numbers dipped after he went on television to announce he was asking Congress for an additional $87 billion for reconstruction in Iraq. That’s on top of $79 billion already appropriated this year to cover the cost of the war.
NO WONDER the voters are gagging. They don’t blame Bush for terrorism or the weak economy, but they sense that he’s adrift, that he has no exit plan for Iraq or solution for our economic woes other than letting the deficit mount.
The climate for Bush’s re-election is deteriorating. In back-to-back sessions with reporters this week, two pollsters reported findings that reflect Bush’s precarious position. Independent polltaker John Zogby shows only 40 percent of likely voters support Bush for another four years; anything below 50 percent is potentially career-ending. Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg has 48 percent responding NO when asked whether Bush “seems up to the job.” The only other president in modern times to approach that precarious threshold was Jimmy Carter. We all know what happened to him.
When Carter began his downward slide, NEWSWEEK did a cover story that asked, CAN CARTER COPE?
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As journalist Michael Wolff writes in the current issue of New York magazine, “George Bush is toast, but for a toaster.”
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