Mandated

[ebonlock]

Just how much do you have to suck as a president before even your Kool-Aid swilling wingnut zombie hordes abandon you? Guess we're in the process of finding out:

President George W. Bush's job rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, amid strong opposition to the Dubai Ports World deal and increasing pessimism over the war in
Iraq, according to a CBS News poll released on Monday.
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Bush's overall job approval fell eight points from 42 percent last month. Fifty-nine percent of respondents said they disapproved of Bush's performance on the job, the poll found.

Bush's previous low job approval rating of 35 percent came last October, a month after Hurricane Katrina laid waste to the Gulf Coast and shortly after the U.S. death toll in Iraq reached the 2,000 mark, CBS said.

Long among his strongest suits, ratings for Bush's handling of Iraq fell to a new low of 30 percent, down from 37 percent in January, the poll found.

In addition, 62 percent of Americans said they think U.S. efforts to bring stability and order to Iraq were going badly compared with 36 percent who said things were going well.

In recent days, the Bush administration has faced increasing sectarian violence and fears of civil war in Iraq as well as strong bipartisan congressional opposition to a deal allowing an Arab state-owned company to operate six key U.S. ports.

According to the poll, 70 percent believe the Dubai Ports World transaction should not be allowed to go through while only 21 percent did not see the ports deal as a problem.

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The poll found that 46 percent hold a negative view of Cheney and 18 percent hold a favorable view, down from a 23 percent favorable rating in January.

The telephone poll of 1,018 adults was conducted February 22-26 and had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.

Whee! It's almost like a rollercoaster...one that keeps going down and down and down. On the bright side for Dubya, at least he's polling better than Cheney. Wow, 18%, that's gotta' hurt.

Comments

[canellaphile.livejournal.com]

I reeeally have to wonder about that 34% who still approve, so to speak. I mean, how forgiving can you be?

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I think it has less to do with being forgiving and more to do with a complete inability to say, "I was wrong."

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

"The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own."
-- H.G. Wells