Can I just take a minute here to laugh at Bush's 34% approval rating?

[Bucky]

Poll: Bush Ratings At All-Time Low

(CBS) The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high.

Americans are also overwhelmingly opposed to the Bush-backed deal giving a Dubai-owned company operational control over six major U.S. ports. Seven in 10 Americans, including 58 percent of Republicans, say they're opposed to the agreement.

9-11! 9-11! 9-11!

CBS News senior White House correspondent Jim Axelrod reports that now it turns out the Coast Guard had concerns about the ports deal, a disclosure that is no doubt troubling to a president who assured Americans there was no security risk from the deal.

I said 9-11! 9-11! 9-11!

The troubling results for the Bush administration come amid reminders about the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina and negative assessments of how the government and the president have handled it for six months.

*ahem* 9-11! 9-11! 9-11!

In a separate poll, two out of three Americans said they do not think President Bush has responded adequately to the needs of Katrina victims. Only 32 percent approve of the way President Bush is responding to those needs, a drop of 12 points from last September’s poll, taken just two weeks after the storm made landfall.

umm... uh... Gay marriage! Gay marriage! Gay marriage!

(Ever have one of those days when none of your old tricks work right?)

[wicket]

1. Let me join you

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Roland99]

2. Must be infectious!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Bucky]

11. hay thanks! I love the blue bush

and thanks to all yall others out there too.

[Beetwasher]

3. CHIMPY'S LOST SUPPORT FOR HIS WAR ON TERROR!!!!

"Even on fighting terrorism, which has long been a strong suit for Mr. Bush, his ratings dropped lower than ever. Half of Americans say they disapprove of how he's handling the war on terror, while 43 percent approve."

:rofl:

Chimpy's ace in the hole turned out to be deuce.

[rpannier]

4. Just a minute????

Sounds like an all day activity.

[Kolesar]

5. Snazzily, formatted, Bucky! FWIW I'm laughing and crying

What will his approval rating be after the next Arab oil embargo?

[johnnie]

6. 34%?

Man, 34% of the people out there still have their heads up their ass.

[July]

10. Well, the "favorable/unfavorable" numbers are 29/53.

Still too high, but we're getting there.

[myrna minx]

18. It just took one year for the country to see

a "W" on a hummer is the most foolish thing in the world.

[xkenx]

39. Most of those 34% have drunk the Koolaid and would support the following:

THIS IS FROM A HUFFINGTON BLOG POST AFTER KATRINA

Bush Eats Baby, Republicans Defend President (23 comments )

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Republicans across the nation are scrambling to defend President George W. Bush after he ate a baby during a visit to the White House kitchen early last evening.

Eye witnesses report that the president left the White House residence at around 8:05 p.m. eastern time wearing what appeared to be a crudely stitched "woman suit made from actual womens' skin. He then entered the White House kitchen where he ate a baby with a side order of "a Cobb Salad containing raw puppy heads".

"I'm a baby eater. An eater of babies," the president told reporters this morning in the Rose Garden. "That's my job. My job is to tell the American people what I eat. And I eat babies and puppies while wearing suits of women. At least you know where I stand."


The presidential "Suit of Women" has been confirmed as having been fashioned from obese D.C. area residents who were coaxed into a nondescript van driven by Bush and his senior political advisor Karl Rove.

The women were forced to, "Put the lotion on their skin or else they get the hose again," says an anonymous White House source. The skins of the women were then harvested and sewn together into a costume which, when worn, makes the president appear to be an actual woman.

Photographs of the suit, which is allegedly flattering to the president's groin region, have yet to be released to the public.

Reports have not yet confirmed the identities of the women or the baby, but it has been confirmed that the president dropped the two-week-old child into a blender, set the device for "liquefy", then drank it down in only a few short gulps. He then decapitated several puppies, dropped them into a bed of lettuce and, "Scarfed it down like a Viking," said a White House kitchen employee.

REPUBLICANS DEFEND AND SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT

"Our goal isn't to play the blame game during an on-going investigation because the investigation is going on in an on-going kind of way indicative of an investigation," White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters. "There's a time for that and that time isn't now."

Republicans, however, are already calling for an investigation into the "inaction" of the White House kitchen staff for allowing this to happen.

"I'm not going to engage in the blame game. That baby was stupid for not running away and calling 911 for assistance," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX). "And I've seen the president's woman suit up close and I can tell you, it's better than mine. Never-the-less, the kitchen staff should be held accountable for letting this happen on their turf."

"I'm not going to engage in the blame game. That baby was stupid for not running away and calling 911 for assistance," said Republican Senator Trent Lott. "And I've seen the president's woman suit up close and I can tell you, it's better than mine. Never-the-less, the kitchen staff should be held accountable for letting this happen on their turf."

"I'm not going to engage in the blame game. That baby was stupid for not running away and calling 911 for assistance," said conservative Fox News host Sean Hannity. "And I've seen the president's woman suit up close and I can tell you, it's better than mine. Never-the-less, the kitchen staff should be held accountable for letting this happen on their turf."

"That baby was stupid for not running away and calling 911 for assistance," said formerly unknown conservative talk radio host Studs Pepperoni. "And I've seen the president's woman suit up close and I can tell you, it's better than mine. Never-the-less, the kitchen staff should be held accountable for letting this happen on their turf."

"Those women should be penalized for allowing themselves to get so fat and thus ripening themselves for skin harvesting," Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) commented on a Pennsylvania cable access show. Santorum had no comment on the puppies.

Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh blamed former president Bill Clinton, "Folks, the eees-syooo here has nothing to do with babies or women or blenders or puppies. This has everything to do with Bill Clinton -- you know something folks -- Snerdly is telling me to cut it, but -- ummmm -- the nigg -- you know, I mean babies -- Clinton had eight years to stop babies from being ingested."

BLOGOSPHERE REACTION

While progressive bloggers are calling for the immediate arrest and impeachment of the president, denizens of the right-wing blogosphere immediately weighed in with their thoughts on the presidential crisis.

"Whiny libs are fags." -GOPawesome420.

"Shut up traitors attaking the prez is just showig your faggy lib colors." -Dittofan56.

"You lost, we won, get over it you whiny homos." -Nospinguy57.

BUSH FAMILY REACTION

The president's mother, Barbara Bush told reporters during a visit to Texas, "Those puppies were going to be used as fishing bait anyway, they're much better off now. BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHA! HA!"

"It hurts me to the core that the liberal elite have begun to attack my boy," former president George H. W. Bush said Friday. "I know my boy and he's a compassionate, caring person. He could've eaten the baby alive, but he took the care to blend it up first. Round and round doing that thing a blender does down there."

LIKE A MERRY-GO-ROUND

Congressman Tom DeLay added this morning, "I bet the baby thought it was an amusement park ride. The blender must've been like a merry-go-round then the president's throat was like a fun water slide."

[rhino47]

7. Is this invitation only or can I join too ?

:party: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Coyote_Bandit]

8. I'd say

that he spent that "political capital" well.

:rofl:

[DemExpat]

9. WOO friggin HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

:rofl: :bounce: :rofl: :bounce:

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DemEx

[JitterbugPerfume]

12. I always said

his support was a mile wide and an inch deep

[senseandsensibility]

13. Laughing's good

We don't take enough time to laugh around here. :) And this is funny, you've got to admit.

[Virginian]

14. How LOW can he GO?

Anyone want to make a guess as to just how low the Bush* and Cheney* approval ratings can go?

Doesn't Bush* have to stay above a certain percent or else his own party will ask him to resign?

I hear rumors that Cheney will step down after the 2006 elections. Anyone want to predict that his approval rating is so bad that he may be asked to step down before then? I don't think he will relinquish the power. It is unheard of for someone to have that kind of power with no accountability to anyone.

[Bucky]

15. I'd put good money up saying Cheney won't step down.

Say whatever else you want about them, the Bushies ain't quitters. They continue to speew the same BS cycle after cycle long after people have quit buying it. Every day they remind me more and more of the Iraqi information minister, Baghdad Billie, or whatever his name was. Facts only get in their way.

[Rowdyboy]

16. Laugh and the world laughs with you.....

Especially in this case!

[ProfessorGAC]

17. The Asymptotic Approach Begins Now

This is the point where the number will only get a little lower at a time while the braindead, cult of personality cyborgs will be the only supporters. Nothing will sway them, so that 20 to 25% will never disapprove. So, he has the approval right now, of about 15% of those who could be swayed one way or the other by facts and evidence.
The Professor

[Kolesar]

19. But the theory of limits...is just a theory!

We need to teach the controversy!!

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Well, You Know How I Am

I started out my career as a theoretician. Well, i guess i'm still a theoretician. So, i'll stay with theory. If that's controversial, so be it!
The Professor

[Nictuku]

21. May I join you?

Let The Sun Shine In! Let the Sun Shine In, the Sun, Shine In!!

Let The Sun Shine In! Let the Sun Shine In, the Sun, Shine In!!

[latebloomer]

22. Reminds me of the Tina Fey SNL quote-

“A new poll shows 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq. The remaining 34% think Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs on the way to church.”

That 34% is probably immovable!

[Kber]

23. It's not nice to kick someone when he's down.

But who ever said I was nice?

heh heh

[ProfessorGAC]

31. Kick, Stomp, Kick, Kick, Stomp, Grind Heel, Kick, Kick, Stomp,. . .

. . .Now i feel better, too!
The Professor

[malmapus]

24. I have Weird Al's "You Don't Love Me Anymore" in my head

when I hear about his polls :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:



We've been together for so very long
But now things are changing, oh I wonder what's wrong?
Seems you don't want me around
The passion is gone and the flame's died down

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem
That time that you made it with the whole hockey team
You used to think I was nice
Now you tell all your friends that I'm the Antichrist

Oh, why did you disconnect the breaks in my car?
That kind of thing is hard to ignore
Got a funny feeling you don't love me anymore

I knew that we were having problems when
You put those piranhas in my bathtub again
You're still the light of my life
Oh darling, I'm beggin', won't you put down that knife?

You know, I even think it's kinda cute the way
You poison my coffee just a little each day
I still remember the way that you laughed
When you pushed me down that elevator shaft

Oh, if you don't mind me asking, what's this poisonous cobra
Doing in my underwear drawer?
Sometime I get to thinking you don't love me any more

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill
Now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will
You set my house on fire
You pulled out my chest hairs with an old pair of pliers

Oh, you think that I'm ugly and you say that I'm cheap
You shaved off my eyebrows while I was asleep
You drilled a hole in my head
Then you dumped me in a drainage ditch and left me for dead

Oh, you know this really isn't like you at all
You never acted this way before
Honey, something tells me you don't love me any more, oh no no
Got a funny feeling you don't love me anymore

[jcg996]

25. Quick question

Something I kind of wonder about is why these numbers don't seem to be emboldening the democrats on the hill as much as I see it making the republicans (esp. Governors) pretty shaky.

I wanted to solicit a quick opinion while I'm here - I'm going to a town hall meeting tonight with John Kerry a couple of blocks from our apartment, does anyone have a great question I should try to ask? I was going to see about his opinion on W's campaign promise not to outsource our national security, but... seems like too much of a softball.

Thanks!

Jason

[spooky3]

28. Welcome to DU, Jason, and

why not ask the question in your first paragraph?

[jcg996]

30. Sorry

I wanted to comment on the original message so that I wouldn't just be crashing in. I don't have enough posts yet to start my own thread so I had to piggy-back - didn't want to annoy anybody!

[ProfessorGAC]

32. You Know What?

I think your two posts here in this thread indicate you will figure out a good question to ask. You've got some good thoughts bouncing around your noggin! Just formulate a question based upon the things you're wondering about. You'll do fine.
The Professor

[jcg996]

33. Thanks

I appreciate that. But, if anybody has a burning question... let me know! I'll check back later on.

Hey, this is helping get my posts up. Cool.

[spooky3]

40. I wasn't very clear--what I meant was, why not ask at the Kerry

meeting the same question you asked in your post? I think it is a good question.

[renate]

35. ditto that!

Welcome, and I think your first question is excellent! (I would really love to hear the answer, too!)

[yellowcanine]

26. Take as much time as you like. Heh, Heh. Heh. And get this. Bob

Taft (16% approval rating) is Monday morning quarterbacking Bush on Katrina.


Republican Bob Taft of Ohio offered judgment on Katrina: "This is hindsight, but it was a mistake to bury FEMA under the Department of Homeland Security." (at the governor's conference).


On edit: Link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=537930&mesg_id=538050

[corkerjoe]

27. 1/3 AMERICANS APPROVE?

that is scary to even think about.i know the replikns wanted to scare me,now thy have. the republican and the KKK are using identical tactics.Wrap the flag around your self get the church in your pocket. scare hell out of everyone and steal democracy

[newyawker99]

34. Hi corkerjoe!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Neil Lisst]

29. it was millseconds from the time Bush heard until he threw back

some kind of alcohol

[skypilot]

36. I believe...

...that his approval rating has been in the mid- to low-thirties for some time now. I don't think it just got there. In fact, I believe his approval rating is probably actually in the 20's by now.

[DanCa]

37. Self Delet Dupe

Sorry

[DanCa]

38. Mandate my ass.

Man that feels so good to say.