Katrina damages Bush in two polls (mostly w/conservatives & Republicans)

[truthpusher]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002482197_bushpolls09.html?syndication=rss&source=politics.xml&items=26

Katrina damages Bush in two polls
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By Richard Keil and Brendan Murray
Bloomberg News
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Two new polls show Americans give President Bush poor marks for his handling of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, with one survey showing that Bush is now losing support even among his Republican base.

Both polls contain additional bad news for Bush. A poll by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press gives him an overall job approval rating of 40 percent, down 10 percent since January, and a disapproval rating of 52 percent, among the highest of his presidency.

Bush's job approval rating was 41 percent in a Zogby America poll, the lowest in that poll's history, and 53 percent of those questioned said the nation is headed in the "wrong direction."

The surveys were conducted in the week after the hurricane's assault on the Gulf Coast and show that support for the president, at near-

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"Uncharacteristically, the president's ratings have slipped most among his core constituents — Republicans and conservatives," Kohut wrote in an e-mail.

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Hurricane Katrina produced a "major shift in public priorities," according to Pew. For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a majority of Americans now believe it is more important for the president to focus on domestic issues than the war on terrorism.

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link: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002482197_bushpolls09.html?syndication=rss&source=politics.xml&items=26

[C_U_L8R]

1. He can't get much lower amongst the rest of us

[Kber]

3. my thought exactly!

[howmad1]

11. How about whale shit at the bottom of the Marianna Trench?

[sybylla]

2. File this under DUH

Who the fuck else still thought he was anything but an incompetent tool of PNACers but his own Repukes and neocons?

Of course I'm glad they printed this so we can wave it under the nose of tighty whitey freepers.

[Inland]

4. Someone tell Bush: The levee done broke. nt

[Maggie_May]

5. You know what's sad

he doesn't give a shit. If just angers me to see this arrogant bastard walk around like he has a stick up his ass. He just doesn't give a shit about us poor hard working people.

[calimary]

6. Welcome to DU! He only gives a shit if it means his image improves.

Do you think, for one instant, that he'd be scrambling to make appearances all over Hurricane Country if the polls showed him doing better? He'd just "delegate" the work to crony underlings so he once again wouldn't have to get his hands dirty.

The ONLY reason he's doing any of this at all is because either he, or his handlers and apologists and spinners and excusers, or maybe both, see that he's in trouble with the voters. And they're looking ahead, with increasing fear and dread, to the 2006 elections. Maybe they're getting nervous that even Diebold won't be able to help them out of this one...

I hope bush's karma bites him so hard in the ass that he winds up not even HAVING an ass. No less BEING one.

Meantime, you know what to do, my friend.

Visualize IMPEACHMENT!!!!
And then go DO something about it.

[Maggie_May]

7. We are going to take back the White House in 2006 and 2008

I just know how much more damage we can take until then. This is the most incompetent administration we have had in history.

[AndyTiedye]

8. We Said That Last Year

"We are going to take back the White House in 2006 and 2008"

We said that last year, and who could have blamed us?
By any historical measure, Bush** could not possibly have won.
Everything was in place for a historic landslide for the Democrats.
Except that they own the news and the voting machines.

Since the disaster in New Orleans, there has been a burst of real reporting, as reporters' outrage and the speed of events exceeded the ability of their bosses to silence them.
That is already starting to fade, being replaced with the usual Rovian talking points on most outlets.

If Fitzgerald's grand jury does not indict Karl Rove, we can expect the media to return to its former lapdog position with regard to the Bush** regime.

[Ernesto]

9. Believe or not, his base does include some good people........

"Uncharacteristically, the president's ratings have slipped most among his core constituents — Republicans and conservatives," Kohut wrote in an e-mail.
The problem is that they are also very stupid. It takes a major event to get them to pay attention to what's going on around them

[AX10]

10. Traditional conservatives.

They understand what is at stake here. The only two groups that will back the fuhrer till the end are the Christian Fundies, and the MillonBillionaires club.

[Laelth]

12. Well, duh!

For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a majority of Americans now believe it is more important for the president to focus on domestic issues than the war on terrorism

The war on terror has been about as useless as the war on drugs. Of course the Prez. ought to focus on the domestic agenda! He's supposed to be running the whole Federal govt., and not just it's military and its state department.

On the other hand, it's * we're talking about. Best if he weren't running any of it.

-Laelth