Gallup: B*sh Reaches New Lows... (36% approve, down 1 point)

[npincus]

http://poll.gallup.com/content/?ci=22405

New lows are for terrorism and energy...



PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll, conducted April 10-13, 2006 finds little change in President George W. Bush's overall job approval ratings, with 36% of Americans saying they approve and 59% saying they disapprove. The current 36% approval ties for the lowest of Bush's entire administration. Overall, Bush's job approval ratings have been extremely steady since February, ranging between 36% and 38% across the five most recent polls.

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. I still think he will get down under 30.

Nixon was at 24 and I think this guy actually might tie him for the most horrible numbers.

I don't know why anyone likes him.

[Gman]

3. He'll likely surpass Nixxon

yet manage to stay in office. That's good for us this year and in '08.

[Mr_Spock]

4. I sure hope so - even 36% is too high for this jackass

..though I do appreciate the amount of time he is spending in the doldrums. The lack of anything left to bolster his numbers is gratifying. The gun is almost out of bullets and the remaining ones are nuclear - it would be nice if he chose not to destroy us all for his popularity, though it's not out of the question with this cabal...

[newsguyatl]

2. gallup at 36% actually translates

to a likely and actaul 30%

[ugarte]

5. No wonder he's looking to bomb somebody...nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. If he thinks bombing Iran will help his numbers he's even

more off his rocker than I thought. I think doing that would send him into the negatives. I think he would simply get run out of town if that happened.

[npincus]

7. Oh, he IS that much off his rocker... read this: (Dr. Justin Frank)

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/interviews/2006/3314justin_frank.html

excerpt from interview with Dr. Justin Frank, psychoanalyst and psychiatry profesor, and the author of "Bush on The Couch":


I've never seen anybody so distort external reality the way Bush does. What he does not like, he just closes his eyes to. He's sort of like an ostrich, who puts his head in the sand, only he puts his head in the Crawford desert sand.

The other thing he does when he's anxious, is that he dissociates, which means that he switches off part of his mind, and disconnects in order to manage anxiety. Disturbing news is like water going off a duck's back; if you saw the pictures of him in the " 9/11" movie by Michael Moore, reading the book when he was told about the attack on the Twin Towers, you see a kind of vague, glazed look in his eyes. And you see the same thing when he's being briefed about the Katrina flood, the day before it happened: He has a way of disconnecting inside, whenever he's flooded with anxiety he cannot manage.

Dissociation is a simple but profound way to manage overwhelming emotion. Bush has what psychiatrists call a problem with "affect regulation"; he cannot regulate his feelings by thinking them through, which is why he has to increase his exercise routines, increase his prayers, increase his time away from the White House, have only very brief meetings. He just does not want to do anything that will cause him pressure.

So, the diagnosis is very hard to make, and something I'm reluctant to do. I prefer to think much more of a long-range character diagnosis, which is that he is fundamentally a dissociated man, with paranoid and grandiose features. And the grandiose elements are really compensatory for feeling quite inadequate and frightened.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. Sounds about right to me.

I just don't think he has a clue about anything.

Reading the paper once in a while would probably send him over the edge.

[AlinPA]

9. When the idiots break out the flags and wave them like they did in '03

his numbers will go up some, but then they will need a draft and he will go deeper into the dumper.

[lpbk2713]

10. They're getting down to the hardcore rethugs now.

And of course the Halliburton stockholders.


They could have Ted Bundy in the oral office and Charlie Manson as his veep and they would still get numbers like this as long as they had (R) behind their name.

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. You think its that bad?

He is probably as craxy as Charlies Manson - only he's killed a few hundred thousand more people.