Frustrated With Bush and the Democrats (by John Nichols for The Nation)

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BLOG | Posted 06/07/2007 @ 1:46pm
Frustrated With Bush and the Democrats

Only one in five American voters believe the United States is heading in the right direction, and the overwhelming majority of them have lost confidence in President Bush to right the country's course.

Unfortunately for Democrats, the voters appear to be in the process of losing confidence in the opposition party to do much better than Bush.

According to the latest Associated Press/Ipsos poll, a mere 21 percent of those surveyed said the U.S. was on the right track.

Bush's approval rating, which had trended modestly upward earlier in the spring, fell back to the all-time low for AP/Ipsos surveys: 32 percent. And the number of Americans who expressed satisfaction with president's handling of the Iraq War is at just 28 percent.

That's bad news for Republicans, but it is not particularly good news for Democrats.

Americans are actually more dissatisfied with the direction of the country than they are with the president. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=203333

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1. "Congressional Democrats are starting to look to a lot of Americans like part of the problem."

Are you listening, Pelosi and Reid?

Somehow I doubt it.:banghead: