WSJ muses today on President Bush’s poll numbers in April, according to Harris. Let’s see, 28% of adults currently within the borders of the United States approve of the job the President is doing, while 70% will have none of it.
As Harris polls go, Bush is still not hanging out in the single lowest position. Tha is the Once and Future Clown, Jimmy Carter:
Those ratings are still better than the marks President Jimmy Carter received in July 1980, when just 22% responded positively and 77% answered negatively when asked to rate the job he was doing.
President Bush’s 28% approval is not even the second lowest. That spot belongs to pre-resignation Dick Nixon, in March, June, and August of ‘74. Only 26% approved of him then, while 71% disapproved.
It doesn’t matter.
In October of 2001, President Bush was at the all-time high in Harris polling of 88% approval.
We are a polarized nation. We are a confused nation.
What does this all mean? Not a thing. The President is going to keep doing what he’s doing.
Proceed.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
“This is looking more and more like the Bush administration’s domestic version of Iraq: a big risky gamble, based on wishful thinking and nonexistent administrative competence that will end in disaster?”
-May16th Kausfiles from slate magazine.
Dead on analogy for this debacle. The only way Bush can cement his legacy as the dumbest president in history is with Domestic Iraq. He wants sot mess up our country like he has messed up our foreign policy.
http://www.slate.com/id/2166678/