34%
That's the President's current approval rating... an all-time low.
Surprised? I'm not.
CBS News: Poll: Bush Ratings At All-Time Low
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...
Even Matt Drudge is taking note of this-
Vice President Cheney also finds himself at a not surprising 18% rating.
I hope these numbers aren't just a quickie/temporary reaction to the scandals of the past week and are actually more indicative of a larger trend of Americans moving away from this administration's policies and behavior. We desperately need Congress to act to rein in this administration, but many are too weak-willed to do so unless they believe the public is there with them. This is a good sign. For this to proceed, we also need some strong-willed members of Congress to keep getting the message out on the important issues. After all, an informed public is this administration's worst nightmare.
Finally, ThinkProgress breaks down the main poll findings:
– 30 percent approve of Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq — an all-time low.
– 27 percent approve of Bush’s energy policy.
– 32 percent approve of Bush’s handling of the economy.
– 5 percent of Americans are pleased with the way the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast is going.
Again, are any of those findings surprising at this point?
posted by BlueDuck @ 12:16 AM
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Congress needs to rein in the administration?? Congress?? They have no support from the American people.
Congress's approval ratings are even lower than the President.
A full 61% of Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing. Their approval rate has sunk to just 28%.
Congress is more of a lame duck than Bush and that doesn't surpise me either.
Touche.
I would point out, though, that Congress' approval ratings are *always* that low. It's probably been a few decades since the body as a whole (regardless of which party was in charge of it or in charge of the White House) really had any kind of genuine public support. It's just hard for Americans to personally connect/care about a legislative body the way they might a mayor or governor or President, particularly when it's seen as a revolving door of faceless corrupt beauracrats (with a few excellent exceptions, of course). That's why people from Congress don't do well in Presidential elections. It's just the nature of that branch.
I personally don't like Congress myself, with the exception of a couple principled people on both sides of the aisle (and the middle of the aisle in the case of Jeffords). That doesn't mean, though, that I don't want them to fulfill their required checking/balancing duties. Obviously, that's all I want here. I'd also like the Supreme Court to do some checking/balancing too, but I think they're busy right now worrying about abortion and whether or not Anna Nicole Smith should get that dead old dude's money.
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