Interesting Presidential approval poll...

One of the reasons Presidents Bushes Poll numbers are down is because of how the press treats him. One example is when he camne back from his recient trip to see the Eureapon Leaders the New Yourk Times reporteed that he did not acheive any success and the other leaders were upset with him. He left Europe with leaders being upset and angery at him. Now today ther print a retraction saying that some ediding was done incorrectly. Page one to report the first story inside for the retraction. Scotter Libby is conviced of not telling the same story to the Grand Jury as he told the FBI and the Congressional Invesgators and other Justice Department Officals. He could not remeber the exact date he sent an email, he was not allowed to use notes which the questioners all had. Now we have at least 6 Democrats involved in invesgating the Home MOrtgage Scandle getting sweetheart deals from the Band they are invesgating and not a work. Maybe if the Press told the truth and not their version of the truth his approval would be better.

Great post, Guardian! Maybe that's why none of them chose to attend and vote in recent sessions!

Touche, Guardian! Clinton, McCain, and Obama would all do well to remember it too! What I'd like to know is: Who are the 24.5% of people who approve of the job that Congress has been doing? And, can I have whatever they're eating or drinking?

OK, this isn't meant to be taken completely seriously anymore than polls in general can really be taken seriously. A case can be made that just because the disapproval rating for Congress is higher than that of the Dimwit in Chief doesn't necessarily mean more people actually disapprove of Congress, or more specifically any particular members of Congress, than disapprove of Bush. The 66.2% that disapprove of Bush seems extraordinarily low to me; WHERE are the 33.8% that approve of him? I mean, I know he has a fairly large family, but that's ridiculous...lol. As for Congress, there are probably about one-third of the population that will pretty much ALWAYS disapprove of Congress, in good times or bad; that's just what they do. Many of not most of these people never bother to vote and are probably not aligned with either party, many probably not knowing any of the differences between the parties at all. Of the other two-thirds, they're probably pretty much split 50/50 between Democrats and Republicans including independents who "lean" one way or the other. Probably at least half of them are fairly loyal to their party and therefore not in favor of what the opposite party does. Also, if you factor in the fact that when one party has a narrow majority like both parties have swapped back and forth recently there are many people who aren't aware they're not going to get their agenda passed in that case so when the GOP had the majority many of their own party supporters probably disapproved because they'd believed they should be able to shove anything through and have the Republican President sign it; now with the Dems in the majority, some think they should be able to pass everything they promised with no problem and then be able to override a Presidential veto. For better or for worse, it's not that simple so Congress will probably continue to suffer low approval ratings. Even if one party gets a filibuster-proof majority people will still complain because that's what they do. As for the President, I doubt we'll see another one who sinks as low as this one as, both popularity wise and otherwise. Annie

The pot calls the kettle black again, eh? Whata bunch of hypocrites.