New NEWSWEEK poll suggests Bush, Katrina’s next casualty

[freemen2005]

Sept. 10, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina claimed her first political casualty Friday. Michael Brown, the head of FEMA, the federal disaster readiness and response agency, was sidelined from the largest disaster relief project in the nation’s history. Brown was recalled to Washington by his boss, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. But a new NEWSWEEK Poll suggests the post-Katrina political storm may just be rising. And her ultimate casualty could be President George W. Bush.

In Katrina’s wake, the president’s popularity and job-approval ratings have dropped across the board. Only 38 percent of Americans approve of the way Bush is doing his job overall, a record-low for this president in the NEWSWEEK poll. (Fifty-five percent of Americans disapprove of his overall job performance.) And only 28 percent of Americans say they are “satisfied with the way things are going” in the country, down from 36 percent in August and 46 percent in December, after the president’s re-election. This is another record low and two points below the satisfaction level recorded immediately after the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal came to light. Fully two-thirds of Americans are not satisfied with the direction of the country.

But Katrina’s most costly impact could be a loss of faith in government generally, and the president, in particular. . . .

[Dirty Hippie]

1. Oooooh... That pic in your sig line

Is that a bumper sticker?

[WilliamPitt]

2. Link?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. Here goes Will.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9280375/site/newsweek/site/newsweek/

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Wonder what the freepers are saying about all these new polls?

Not long ago one of them posted that the 'majority' of Americans would always support Chimpy.

[bullimiami]

4. 46 percent in December right after the "re" election. yet they never look

at that election and see the corruption and conspiricy.
they just keep pretending that a country that didnt like the president or how he did his job chose to put him back in office.
the media is a failure. they can engage in double-think without batting an eyelash.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Already a big thread in the Greatest page. Check there first.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2079950

[amber dog democrat]

6. out out out !

The * Chimp may yet recover from this, but I would not bet on it.

Appears to be a trend here. Welcome news.

I like both of the preceeding signature line graphics !

[freemen2005]

7. HERES LINK

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9287435/

[mbee]

9. The truth is we are stuck with this idiot even if his poll numbers

shrink to Zero!

[SheilaT]

10. What mbee said.

This is not a parliamentary system, where a government can fall if the people lose confidence or if major political setbacks of any kind occur.

The House and Senate are both Republican controlled. And far too many of the Democrats in them are simply "Republican lite".

What we need is a serious, long-term, grass-roots commitment to change and taking back our government. It will be years, not just the next election cycle before we can truly make a difference. Don't kid yourselves.