What Took You So Long
From CBS News:
Poll: Bush Ratings At All-Time LowThey've now pissed Lou Dobbs off, watch him go apeshit on the C&L clip. And that Coast Guard thing is the kicker. Squirming out of this port mess is going to be a bitch and a half.
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.
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.
Mr. Bush's overall job rating has fallen to 34 percent, down from 42 percent last month. Fifty-nine percent disapprove of the job the president is doing.Yeah yeah yeah. I don't know how they phrased those particular questions but only a nitwit would conclude that the Veep had now slipped to an 18% favorability rating based on what -- lack of personal hygiene?
For the first time in this poll, most Americans say the president does not care much about people like themselves. Fifty-one percent now think he doesn't care, compared to 47 percent last fall.
Just 30 percent approve of how Mr. Bush is handling the Iraq war, another all-time low.
By two to one, the poll finds Americans think U.S. efforts to bring stability to Iraq are going badly -- the worst assessment yet of progress in Iraq.
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.
In a bright spot for the administration, most Americans appeared to have heard enough about Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident.
More then three in four said it was understandable that the accident had occurred and two-thirds said the media had spent too much time covering the story
We have an extraordinary window to exploit Bush's anti-popularity and shake up a few Senators with regard to the investigations into the illegal NSA wiretaps. The vote on whether or not the Intelligence Committee looks into the matter is coming up on March 7, so this Wednesday we'd like to have a Roots action for Nebraska and Maine residents to put pressure on Chuck Hagel and Olympia Snowe not to cave. We'll be encouraging state residents (or those with ties to the state) to write their local papers and others to call both Hagel and Snowe's offices to let their feelings be known.
So please stop by on Wednesday morning, if you know people from Nebraska or Maine please tell them to check us out and take part, and enjoy the fact that BushCo. is now quite vulnerable and we're going to do everything we can to exploit that.
posted by Jane Hamsher @ 2/27/2006 05:37:00 PM
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