Bush success rating at historic low.

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President Bush’s success rating in the Democratic-controlled House has fallen this year to a half-century low, and he prevailed on only 14 percent of the 76 roll call votes on which he took a clear position.

The previous low for any president was in 1995, when Bill Clinton won just 26 percent of the time during the first year after Republicans took control of the House. If Bush’s score holds through the end of the year, he will have the lowest success rating in either chamber for any president since Congressional Quarterly began analyzing votes in 1953.

A study of House and Senate floor votes, compiled by CQ over the August recess, also showed that House Democrats have backed Bush’s legislative positions this year only 6 percent of the time, making for the strongest opposition from either party against a president in the 54 years CQ has kept score.

A separate analysis of so-called party unity votes, in which a majority of one party votes against a majority of the other, showed the possibility of another historic first for House Democrats. So far this year, Democrats have backed the majority position of their caucus 91 percent of the time on average on such votes. That marks the highest Democratic unity score in 51 years.



More: http://www.cqpolitics.com/2007/09/bush_success_rating_at_histori.html

[endarkenment]

1. gee this post sounds very familiar.

War, More War, Warrantless Wiretaps, What Subpoena?

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6. Essentially, we have a frozen federal government. Congress and the other two branches

aren't keen on cooperating.

[endarkenment]

9. They are on certain issues. nt.

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11. Only on issues where Bush can blackmail them with the troops. n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

2. That's okay. * thinks that history will vindicate him.

He doesn't have to be loved right now, only feared.

[ljm2002]

3. Well if he's only getting 14% of roll call votes...

...it's hard to see how he is "feared" ???

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7. One reason why he's feared: He's holding the troops hostage. n/t

[porphyrian]

4. You can't be a bigger failure than this asshole. - n/t

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5. I'm sure he'll find novel ways to fuck things up in his remaing 500 days. n/t

[porphyrian]

8. I don't doubt that. I just don't think it can make him more of a failure. -n/t

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10. Oh, he's never failed to disappoint me on how disappointing he can be.

I wouldn't be surprised if he manages to blow his previous fuckedupedness out of the water.

[Enrique]

12. lame chimp

[Flabbergasted]

13. K An R