Conservatives Drive Bush's Approval Down...

[bridgit]

'WASHINGTON - Angry conservatives are driving the approval ratings of President Bush and the GOP-led Congress to dismal new lows, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that underscores why Republicans fear an Election Day massacre.'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060505/ap_on_el_ge/republicans_ap_poll_4 :rofl:

[formerrepuke]

1. Time to play the gays/abortion/guns/God card!..... it never fails.

Then again, neither does a massive terrorist attack.

[bridgit]

2. and a kennedy...

x(

[catmandu57]

7. Don't forget it's the gay immigrants

That's where all our troubles come from :sarcasm:

[bridgit]

13. gay immigrants, check...

x(

[TahitiNut]

3. "Even 31 percent of conservatives want Republicans out of power."

:rofl:

"Six of 10 conservatives say America is headed in the wrong direction." (But half blame the liberals, of course.)

:rofl: :rofl:

"In the past six decades, only one president had a lower job approval rating six months before a midterm election — Richard Nixon in May 1974, the year in which Watergate-scarred Republicans lost 48 seats in the House and four in the Senate."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[bridgit]

4. i can't wait to start voting these crap-heads the hell out of office...

:patriot:

[TahitiNut]

5. It's not enough. Impeach. Indict. Imprison.

Impeach. Indict. Imprison.

There is no justice in this nation until the highest of crimes are punished.

[bridgit]

6. after we gain control of process, my thought is that the wheel will...

begin spinning in that direction yes!

[TahitiNut]

18. I wish I thought the odds were better than even. I don't.

I've lived (as a voter) through Watergate (and Ford's pardon of Nixon) and Iran/Contra (and all the pardons and escapes) and I have sadly little confidence that justice will prevail.

[bridgit]

20. the chances are little better than even, its 'drop one stitch & you'll...

need to start all over' time for america sadly

[KoKo]

8. If Nixon hadn't been pardoned and Iran Contra hadn't been white washed

over...the country might have been saved from this hell we've lived through.

IMPEACH........INDICT...........IMPRISON!!!! and don't let anything be covered over again ...just to preserve the Government. It didn't preserve the government to pardon Nixon it allowed what Dean called the "cancer" on the Presidency to become a malignancy that spread throughout DC and into our local governments.

[reichstag911]

10. Exactly, KoKo!

I've been saying for a while that Ford's pardon of Nixon was the beginning of our long national nightmare, not the end, as he pompously proclaimed. It showed Americans that with money and/or power, you don't need to worry about being held accountable for your misconduct. And many, if not most, Americans have learned that lesson all too well.

[KansDem]

11. We can thank Lee Hamilton for the Iran/Contra mess

and his insistence on playing nicey-nice with the Republicans, particularly a congressman by the name of Dick Cheney.

"......former Congressman Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House select committee investigating the Iran-contra affair, was shown ample evidence against Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, but he did not probe their wrongdoing. Why did Hamilton choose not to investigate? In a late 1980s interview aired on PBS 'Frontline,' Hamilton said that he did not think it would have been 'good for the country' to put the public through another impeachment trial. In Lee Hamilton's view, it was better to keep the public in the dark than to bring to light another Watergate, with all the implied ramifications. When Hamilton was chairman of the House committee investigating Iran-contra, he took the word of senior Reagan administration officials when they claimed Bush and Reagan were 'out of the loop.' Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh and White House records later proved that Reagan and Bush had been very much in the loop. If Hamilton had looked into the matter instead of accepting the Reagan administration's word, the congressional investigation would have shown the public the truth. Hamilton later said he should not have believed the Reagan officials. However, today, George W. Bush is considering appointing Hamilton UN ambassador."
Uncovering the Florida cover-up: The good fight continues
A Past Look, 25 December, 2000

"One of the key congressional Republicans fighting this rear-guard action was Rep. Dick Cheney of Wyoming, who became the ranking House Republican on the Iran-contra investigation. Cheney already enjoyed a favorable reputation in Washington as a steady conservative hand. Cheney smartly exploited his relationship with Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., who was chairman of the Iran-contra panel. Hamilton cared deeply about his reputation for bipartisanship and the Republicans quickly exploited this fact. A senior committee source said one of Cheney’s top priorities was to block Democrats from deposing Vice President Bush about his Iran-contra knowledge. Cheney 'kept trying to intimidate Hamilton,' the source said. 'He kept saying if we go down that road, we won’t have bipartisanship.' So, Hamilton gave Bush a pass. The limited investigation also gave little attention to other sensitive areas, such as contra-drug trafficking and the public diplomacy operation. They were pared down or tossed out altogether. Despite surrendering to Cheney’s demands time and again, Hamilton failed, in the end, to get a single House Republican to sign the final report. Only three moderate Republicans on the Senate side – Warren Rudman, William Cohen and Paul Trible – agreed to sign the report, after extracting more concessions. Cheney and the other Republicans submitted a minority report that denied that any significant wrongdoing had occurred."
Covering Up Iran-Contra - Robert Parry
Consortium News, 5 November 2000

http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/hamiltoniran-contra.htm

[TahitiNut]

16. The Democratic 'Leadership' shares the blame for hiding behind Hamilton.

Iran/Contra was an abomination.

[KoKo]

21. Great post with background on Lee Hamilton...Repugs Favorite Dem to

put in place for Commissions...when the going get's tough. Yet, most Americans wouldn't even know who the hell he was.

But, somehow Bush's numbers are going down ...so Americans are smarter at some level that the Repugs/Bush/NeoCon's/Corporatists ever imaginged.

From my slight reading of history ...it was ALWAYS...THE PEOPLE who ROSE UP AND OVERTHREW the TYRANTS.

But...I never thought I'd have to see AMERICANS do this in my lifetime. I thought we'd gotten that stuff way behind us.

Sad...that History never seems relevant...and "the people sleep" until they are pressed so hard they RISE UP WITH THEIR MIGHTY SWORDS.....

I guess it's just humanity that we never learn from our mistakes. That's very sad on so many levels.

[warrens]

9. After Watergate, America didn't really blame the Republican party

They blamed Nixon and his cronies. A lot of Republicans were at the forefront of exposing Nixon, and by the time it became time for him to go, he had lost support of all but a couple of diehard nut cases (Cheney was one). And still they lost that many seats. Of course, with all the gerrymandering the GOP has done since then, they have an absolutely safe base of seats. Otherwise, they'd lose a hundred seats this fall.

Still, I think it will be fairly easy to gain 20 or so in the House, and perhaps four or five in the Senate. That should be enough to take back our government from these nazi scum.

[bridgit]

12. and they're going to blame bush & his, though bush in particular...

for his bullshit, detached CEO :eyes: way of shirking responsibility, looting national treasure, and spilling innocent blood while doing just-precisely-what he said he would never do...nation building = hegemony down :thumbsdown:

[TahitiNut]

17. As I've said, I think Junior will be martyred.

It's the Fascist escape ... martyr their sock puppet. They'll get YEARS of benefit from it.

[bridgit]

19. i say let them try...

[kurth]

14. "It's going to take some events of significance to turn this around..."

What "events of significance" are they planning?

Betcha they're thinking another 9/11 would be sooooo nice for them...

[bridgit]

15. sure, another 9-11, katrina...something they can really fuck sideways...

[mandyky]

22. Add one word

Angry FISCAL conservatives - the social conservatives are also bailing, but the old fashion conservatives who care about spending as much as they like tax cuts, who realize that an 8 TRILLION dollar (and climbing) will eventually mean raising taxes to pay it off...

[bridgit]

23. i'd have thought fiscal conservatives would have tarred & feathered...

him by now x(