Friday, October 20, 2006
The Flip Flop Girl is a Democrat
I am really amused by all those right wing blogs and all their strategizing as if the running of the country is one big football game. Well, right wingers, your quarterback, Dubya, is a loser. And your game plan is lame, lame, lame--and stupid, arrogant, and dangerous. "Stay the Course?" No, we can't afford to blindly follow the Bushies. The Iraq war must come to and end. Tax cuts for the rich is no policy. And, if you really need a wake up call, read a typical story on Bush's job approval. We need Democrats to bring back balance and sanity to government.
May 11, 2006, 9:12 pm
Bush Dips Into the 20s
President Bush’s job-approval rating has fallen to its lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an “excellent or pretty good” job as president, down from 35% in April and significantly lower than 43% in January. Approval ratings for Congress overall also sank, and now stand at 18%.
Roughly one-quarter of U.S. adults say “things in the country are going in the right direction,” while 69% say “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.” This has been the trend since January, when 33% said the nation was heading in the right direction. Iraq remains a key concern for the general public, as 28% of Americans said they consider Iraq to be one of the top two most important issues the government should address, up from 23% in April. The immigration debate also prompted 16% of Americans to consider it a top issue, down from 19% last month, but still sharply higher from 4% in March.
The Harris poll comes two days after a downbeat assessement of Bush in a New York Times/CBS News poll. The Times, in analyzing the results, said “Americans have a bleaker view of the country’s direction than at any time in more than two decades.”
