Bush at 65% Disapproval - 31% Approval USAToday Poll

[Blackhatjack]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-08-bush-approval_x.htm

Real soon Republicans will be denying they know George W. Bush, or even remember meeting him(hey all those pictures with him, they do that with lots of folks without knowing who they are -- ala Jack Abramoff and Bush).

Just a little push .... and Bush's approval rating is in the 20s !!!

And now Mehlman is reported to be telling Repubs on Capitol Hill that they may lose 45 seats in the House in November(When Dems need to pick up only 15 to wrangle a majority!!).

[Tom Joad]

1. My prediction...

After Roves indictment, Bushboy's numbers will get into the 20's.

By this time next year, just before impeachment and removal, it will be in the teens.

[Blackhatjack]

4. First Cheney is indicted and resigns, then Bush is impeached ....

Cheney is going down in the Fitz investigation. Libby is the preliminary, and there is still a good chance Libby is going to "turn" on Bush and Cheney --which will open the floodgates! Cheney's indictment and resignation will take him out of the line of succession. Even though Hastert has a big problem with Turkish money he accepted, he won't be an issue since Dems will retake the House in November. Newly elected DEMOCRATIC Speaker of the House will succeed Bush and serve out his term.

[yellerpup]

13. Goes right along with my fantasy...

Al Gore wins a Senate seat (I know, I know, but why can't he run?) and is elected Speaker. Cheney--BOOM, Bush--Whaaa???, and Big Al takes his rightful job as POTUS for the next two years. After that, who knows what happens?

[lyonn]

18. I like your thinking - and Big Al is Potus

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

19. If you want this, you might want him to run for congress

The speaker of the house doesn't come from the senate.

[yellerpup]

31. You're so right.

Sorry.

[pnwmom]

27. What if Cheney resigns and is replaced by McCain. Will we be happy then?

Because it is very likely that, if Cheney resigns, Bush will still be in power. And he'll the the one to decide who the new V.P is, not the line of succession.

[Blackhatjack]

33. Bush does not get to name anyone he wants for VP w/o Congress approval

Although I have not yet found the procedure laid out for such a process, I am pretty sure that Bush would not be allowed to name anyone he wants to the Office of Vice President without Congressional oversight/confirmation.

The place to look for an answer might be the resignation of Spiro Agnew, and his replacement during the Nixon Administration. Anyone know how that played out, and if Congress played a role in that?

It would seem that oversight would be required, otherwise a "sham" candidate could run with the Presidential candidate until elected, then resign and allow the new President to name an incompetent or unpopular person to serve in that position who was not exposed to vote by the American public.

[BigYawn]

35. How did you learn about my wet dream?

LoL..

[Auntie Bush]

5. I sure hope you are the smartest psychic in town. n/t

[Tom Joad]

7. gotta admit, theres much hoping that congress will do the right thing

and that often does not happen.
But we gotta make it happen.

[Blackhatjack]

10. There is only one way Rove escapes indictment .....

Rove will have to cooperate with Fitz and deliver up Bush and Cheney "on a nice shiny platter."
But hey, Rove is smart enough to read the handwriting on the wall, knowing it is all Congressional investigations into BushCo wrongdoing from here on out -- if he is offered immunity and does not have to become some inmate's "girlfriend" he may turn on Bush and Cheney to save his sorry behind.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Great news, but I won't to see Chimpy set the lowest ever!

[habitual]

23. me too! if you're gonna do something, do it all the way! n/t

[AX10]

3. Democrats will win the House.

[genieroze]

6. He's made this country into such a mess it will take decades to clean it

up. The MSM will only give the Dems one term to clean it up before they start blaming THEM for the mess the pukes made.

[Blackhatjack]

9. Dems need to push the Repubs in Senate to use the "nuclear option"

There is no way Repubs would use the "nuclear option" to get rid of the filibuster now, since that is the only power they lose the majority and are in the minority again.

[orwell]

8. Is it chilly in here?

...or is hell freezing over?

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. Shame on USA Today!

I've been set up too many times only to be disappointed. And each time is harder to take. The 2004 election, I was overwhelmed by disappointment...devastated, actually. It took a good two or three months before I'd recovered enough to gain some strength and get just plain downright angry.

So, I'm not allowing myself to be set up again. Until the results are in, this is just one battle in the WAR that the Cons have waged on America in general and Liberals specifically. There's still six months to go...The stakes are too high begin celebrating.

I will say, if Rove is indicted between now and November, I'll buy some champagne and get it chilling though. LOL!

[Supersedeas]

12. mmmmm, i smell twenties

[bdamomma]

14. bush is nailing himself to that cross

hey bushie go get raptured.

[Blackhatjack]

15. Well it is cutting into the "true believers" cushion now .....

The truth is none of these Evildoers in the WH have a clue how to right the ship.
They had only one plan, their plan, and now that it has blown up in their face they are unable to adjust their web of lies.

People have caught on -- it is all smoke(Rove) and mirrors(Cheney/Rummy).

[yellowcanine]

16. 31 % approval rating? Those are toilet bowl numbers. How low can he go?

[janx]

17. He can go lower.

Give it a couple of weeks...

[TheWraith]

21. The all-time record low is 24%: Nixon circa resignation.

If he keeps up this pace, he's about three weeks out from that level. :P

[yellowcanine]

24. If Homeland Security and Goss get tied into hookergate - and both are

possible - we could again have the question being asked, "What did the President know and when did he know it?" And that question is increasingly becoming relevant to Plamegate as well. We are going to need a lot more fans in here to handle all of the shit.

[petepillow]

20. Wheeee! Approval go down the hole.... n/t

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

22. Bush didn't help himself any with the CIA nomination

Hayden was involved in creating the domestic spying project and now the democrats get to ask him questions in his confirmation hearing. With any luck the hearing are going to be televised.

This move looks dumb as a stump to me. Am I missing something here?

[yellowcanine]

25. Yes. You forgot that he is "The Decider." If doesn't matter how dumb

a move it is. That won't stop *. He is "The Decider" and no one is going to tell him he can't do something. It is his fatal flaw.

[The Backlash Cometh]

26. Bush who? Wasn't he one of Hitler's SS men?

Escaped to Brazil where he hid out in the Rain Forest, catching fish from piranha infested rivers? That Bush?

[Awsi Dooger]

28. I was way off on this one

I thought the basement was 38-40%, based on blind conservative loyalty. Of course, I also projected a normal course of presidential performance and not the remarkable sustained incompetence of the past six months or more. Plus, I think I overlooked one factor: now that Bush will never be on the ballot again, his detractors within his own party and base are much less hesitant to admit dissaproval. If Bush were running against a Democrat this fall, his appproval number right now would be significantly higher, even via identical performance.

[Blackhatjack]

34. Earlier estimates of Bush "true believers" were 35% ....

... so obviously these poll numbers are reflecting a loss of "true believer" support for Bush. One word for that ...... Ominus!

[ComerPerro]

29. Disapproval is even stronger of a stat

When people say "31% approval", it still lets people assume that there is a certain percentage who are undecided.


But "65% disapprove" really lays it all out there

[Blackhatjack]

32. My thoughts exactly!!!

There is usually a transition in polling from "approval" to "disapproval" with a stopover at "unsure" or "no opinion."

The polling today indicates that the "stopover" was either short-lived or non-existent.

65% disapproval says it all.

[Zorra]

30. The republicans in Congress unanimously gave chimpy

everything he ever wanted.

The blame needs to be freely shared.