JeffreyWKramer
11-12-2006, 08:08 AM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15667442/site/newsweek/
President Bush’s job approval rating has fallen to just 31 percent, according to the new NEWSWEEK Poll. Bill Clinton’s lowest rating during his presidency was 36 percent; Bush’s father’s was 29 percent, and Ronald Reagan’s was 35 percent. Jimmy Carter’s and Richard Nixon’s lows were 28 and 23 percent, respectively. (Just 24 approve of outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s job performance; and 31 percent approve of Vice President Dick Cheney’s.)
Worst of all, most Americans are writing off the rest of Bush’s presidency; two-thirds (66 percent) believe he will be unable to get much done, up from 56 percent in a mid-October poll; only 32 percent believe he can be effective. That’s unfortunate since 63 percent of Americans say they’re dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country; just 29 percent are satisfied, reports the poll of 1,006 adults conducted Thursday and Friday nights.
Bush's approval rating is at the same low level as Cheney's, and Bush just dumped Rummy, the one guy that made him look good in the eyes of some.
I'm predicting this continued trend, along with the election results, will cause a lot of the remaining GOP folk in Congress to abandon the White House's agenda. Whether that means they will go along with the Dems remains to be seen, of course, and will probably depend mostly on just what the Dems actually do. If they go radically left, the GOPers can continue to do their own thing and probably be joined by some of the newer, more moderate Democrats, without towing the White House line. If the Dems are smart and go for very centrist reforms and work with the fiscal conservative and libertarian contingents within the GOP, though, I expect they can get a lot passed, and bury the White House agenda.
Your thoughts?
President Bush’s job approval rating has fallen to just 31 percent, according to the new NEWSWEEK Poll. Bill Clinton’s lowest rating during his presidency was 36 percent; Bush’s father’s was 29 percent, and Ronald Reagan’s was 35 percent. Jimmy Carter’s and Richard Nixon’s lows were 28 and 23 percent, respectively. (Just 24 approve of outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s job performance; and 31 percent approve of Vice President Dick Cheney’s.)
Worst of all, most Americans are writing off the rest of Bush’s presidency; two-thirds (66 percent) believe he will be unable to get much done, up from 56 percent in a mid-October poll; only 32 percent believe he can be effective. That’s unfortunate since 63 percent of Americans say they’re dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country; just 29 percent are satisfied, reports the poll of 1,006 adults conducted Thursday and Friday nights.
Bush's approval rating is at the same low level as Cheney's, and Bush just dumped Rummy, the one guy that made him look good in the eyes of some.
I'm predicting this continued trend, along with the election results, will cause a lot of the remaining GOP folk in Congress to abandon the White House's agenda. Whether that means they will go along with the Dems remains to be seen, of course, and will probably depend mostly on just what the Dems actually do. If they go radically left, the GOPers can continue to do their own thing and probably be joined by some of the newer, more moderate Democrats, without towing the White House line. If the Dems are smart and go for very centrist reforms and work with the fiscal conservative and libertarian contingents within the GOP, though, I expect they can get a lot passed, and bury the White House agenda.
Your thoughts?