Support for Bush policies falling: poll

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Along with ebbing public support for the Iraq War, US President George W. Bush also faces diminishing backing for his domestic agenda, from tax cuts to homeland security, according to a poll published.

Forty-three percent of those asked by a Harris Interactive survey for The Wall Street Journal supported Bush's proposal to make tax cuts passed during his first mandate permanent, down from 52 percent in August.

Fifty percent disapproved of Bush's position on homeland security, against 43 percent who approved, the poll showed.

Additionally, 53 percent disagreed with his environmental policies with 34 percent backing them, while 53 percent also disapproved of his efforts to provide hurricane relief against 43 percent in favor.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/uspoliticsbushpoll

[deutsey]

1. That there was ever support to begin with still perplexes me

[Broken_Hero]

9. yeah,

but he still has support, from his misguided base...

[cassiepriam]

10. Me too. The current 40% approval rating boggles my mind.

[UrbScotty]

27. When you consider who controls the media... (nt)

[waldnorm]

2. What About Social Security?

I thought he had a mandate with "political capital" to spend. :P

[Cha]

5. Yeah, I'd love a white house

press corpse to ask him about his "mandate" and his "political capital" for the SS Reform. :P

[underpants]

8. Want some synergy??? -from just this morning

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2184776



On Bush's political capital and how much he has left

"He has only made one mistake and that was Meirs...correct that and everything will be okay"

[Cha]

11. Thanks, I added my opinion.

"One mistake"..coulter's high on spiked koolaid.

[Cha]

3. What? America started

Paying Attention to just exactly what the bushco policies are?

In essence sending America down to toilet to be his very own Banana Republic.

[Realityhack]

14. No not really...

people are just dissatisfied with things like high gas prices so they blame the pres. Honestly wouldn't matter if Gahndi were pres. They get pinched in the pocket and they turn... at some point it reaches a point where it becomes acceptable and then cool in the main stream and opinion flips rather quickly (like now).
I honestly don't think the avg. american knows much if anything more now than they did 3 years ago reguarding Bush's policies etc.

[Peace Patriot]

24. "I honestly don't think..." Realityhack, do you have any information to...

...back up what you honestly don't think?

Read the issue polls over the last two years. You will be amazed. The great majority of Americans disapprove of every major Bush policy, foreign and domestic, way up in the 60% to 70% range. You name it. The Iraq war. Torture policy. The deficit. Social Security. Women's rights. Most Americans--big majorities of Americans--disagree with Bush on EVERYTHING. And that's not even to mention Bush's approval polls (so low before the election that Zogby said he couldn't win).

And this is not news. This has been going on at least since Feb. '03, when 58% of Americans disapproved of the Iraq war (before the invasion!).

Most Americans are not stupid or uninformed. In fact, the great majority of Americans are quite progressive in their views, and are sticking stubbornly to those views despite the most intense brainwashing and fearmongering that any people has been subjected to in recent times.

This great American progressive majority has been disempowered, demoralized and DISENFRANCHISED!

I repeat: DISENFRANCHISED.

Do you know how your vote is 'tabulated,' and by whom? Better find out.

[xyboymil]

4. This is going to be an ugly 2 years for Bushie. Things just get worse .

[Cha]

7. I'm happy to be a part

of that Ugliness for the chimp.

[underpants]

6. Getting "mandate" in there is hard work.... (wow)

supported Bush's proposal to make tax cuts passed during his first mandate permanent

[mvd]

12. Better late than never

I'm jubilant these days. It seems like we're finally winning against the right wing extremists. Too bad it might take a generation or two to repair the damage.

[opihimoimoi]

13. The man has been revealed to be horribly flawed...that he still

got support boggles the mind...he is a phoney of the worst kind..the loose connon in the White House...Power gone to his head and stupid decisions result....

[Doctor_J]

31. "Flawed" sounds like "human"

Bush is malevolent, probably malignant. Flawed = Clinton. Evil = Bush.

[opihimoimoi]

32. I stand corrected.....you are absolutely on the money

[Straight Shooter]

15. Anyone who supports him now is just a jockstrap for a weenie. n/t

[goforit]

16. We're gonna have a little tyrrant on our hands.

[HockeyMom]

17. See how much support he will have to eliminate

Mortgage Interest and State and Local Taxes from Federal Returns. Should be about as popular as privatizing Social Security.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. Why oh why???!

It burns me up to see everything falling apart for Bush in terms of public support, possible indictments in the air, a failed Supreme Court nominee, etc. It's not that I'm not glad to see him failing now and see a lot of people FINALLY waking up and seeing what a disaster Bushco has been and the damage that our country has visited upon itself over the past 4-5 years. The reason I'm so upset is that, short of impeachment or resignation (neither of which is going to happen, sadly) we can't get rid of Bushco and the public didn't get rid of Bushco when they had a chance to in 2004. It hasn't even been a year since the last (se-)lection and Buscho and the Republican Party appears to be imploding and many of the major leaders are under investigation and Bush's "political capital" has been all but spent by now (if he even had any to begin with). The only GOOD thing about all of this is that if this disenchantment lasts and the Dems put up some good candidates, we could very well take back one or both house of Congress and (hopefully) pave the way for taking back the White House in 2008. If we can't be in charge of the White House right now, at least we can try to be in a position where the Republicans actually have to, you know, talk to us?

[natrat]

19. why would 43% support tax cuts for the top 5% and mostly 1%

there are some seriously deluded morans out there. Good thing our boy Reid is out there explaining the truth -not. "we can do better" how about starting by exdposing these fucks--give em hell hary -my ass

[jody]

20. There are two major questions regarding *'s administration,

(1) how many Republican passengers will leave Bush’s political Titanic and (2) will the captain go down with the ship of state?

[Career Prole]

21. There's the poll I was looking for! Shrub's tax cuts fall from grace!

It took a while to get through some of those heads but they've finally figured out "trickle-down" is what happens when rich folk piss on the box you're living in...
:grr:

[ismnotwasm]

22. Good.

He lurches from one unmitigated disaster to another. I just hope low poll numbers help stem the bleeding from the wounds he's inflicted on this country. His defenders and/or supporters aren't defending him so much as they are whining.

[hippiegranny]

23. the question that begs to be answered is

WHAT environmental policies? How could anyone who has the most basic use of their brain not see that "pollution amok!" and "fuck trees! they cause forest fires!" are not environmental policies?

[superconnected]

25. It's all falling apart georgie

You can't get away with being a crook. You've never suceeded at anything in your life.

I'll just sit here and watch your popularity roll over and die as your team gets indicted, and wait, since all indictments lead to you.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

30. You can't get away with being a crook. You've never succeeded. .

hahahah! exactly.

[Doctor_J]

26. 34% in favor of his enviro policies?

So we know that about 1/3 of those polled are logging execs, petro execs, chemical execs, and coal execs.

[Cults4Bush]

28. and some of the most short sighted and selfish people to walk the earth.

Oil good, ugh ugh.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

29. keep in mind now we're getting into the demographic

who are not supporting him because he's, in their minds, not RW enough. they are seeing him as he actually is: just some rich, connected, alcoholic with no real "morals" or "stance". It's the shattering of the myth, it must painful to the small minds out there.

a schism. me likes.