Bush hard-pressed to rescue presidency, experts say

[struggle4progress]

Reuters
Posted Monday, May 15, 2006

.. Six weeks after Bush began a staff shake-up aimed at reinvigorating his presidency, his popularity has only fallen further. While a Newsweek poll released this weekend showed Bush’s approval rating at 35 percent, three other surveys last week put it at between 29 and 31 percent ..

Most worrisome for Bush, his latest approval figures are among the lowest measured for any president in the past 50 years. His father, former President George H.W. Bush, saw his approval drop to similar levels before being defeated in the 1992 presidential election.

Jimmy Carter, at the height of the energy crisis and the Iran hostage drama in the late 1970s had a rating of 28 percent while Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal saw his approval drop to 23 percent. Neither recovered substantially ..

http://www.dailyherald.com/story.asp?id=189514

[AX10]

1. Don't worry about those numbers Bush....

they still got to fall some more.

[tanyev]

2. He didn't rescue anything on 9/11, and he certainly didn't

rescue anything after Katrina. Par for the course.

[madeline_con]

4. Don't forget, he had to be rescued from a pretzel. n/t

[madeline_con]

3. Such a typical sociopath....

He does the old "shake-up", blaming the idiots around him. No acountability. :eyes:

[Bucky]

6. What shake up? Two guys left and some old hands rotated to those old jobs.

Replacing two mid-level players and promoting up their longstanding underlings is not a shake up. What a crock o' crack.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. He would actually have to start GOVERNING WELL. Since his gang

don't actually take that seriously, there you are.

[Demeter]

7. Nothing Will Improve His Precidency Like the Leaving of It!

"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
Saki (1870 - 1916)

http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3?Search=improved&Author=

[madeline_con]

9. Best post in the thread!

:rofl:

[NNadir]

11. I concur.

[cliss]

8. He's always been in competition with his dad.

He's always looking to 'outdo' him. When Bush got the re-selection, rumour had it that Bush was feeling vindictive, that he did better than Poppy.

Well, now he can say that he's outdone his dad in the polls. He's hit a record:smoke:.

[Cha]

10. No "shakeup"..rearranging

chairs on the Deck of the Hindenburg :(