Bush Approval Ratings Hit 33% – A New New Low…

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Also of note in the new Pew Research poll, top one-word descriptions Bush show negative words, for the first time, top the list (Incompetent 29%, Good 23%, Idiot 21%, Liar 17%).

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  1. 3)
    JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 3/15/2006 @ 12:51pm PT: [Permalink]

    NOT ONCE did . . . IL Duce bush throw the Dems A Bone, work with or compromise! JUST LIE!

    The gop . . . Vicious Like a RABID Dog Went after anyone in thier way. JUST LIE LIE LIE . . .

    NO MERCY ! ! ! . . . NO MERCY ! ! ! . . . NO MERCY ! ! ! NEVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. 5)
    Savantster said on 3/15/2006 @ 1:53pm PT: [Permalink]

    poor poor deluded banned Paul..

    Those spineless bastards aren’t "our leaders".. no more than Shrubby won Ohio in 2004.

    And, you’re right.. at 20% he WILL still be President. Why? Because REPUBLICANS HAVE NO MORALS.. duh? moron.

  3. 7)
    bluebear 2 said on 3/15/2006 @ 2:29pm PT: [Permalink]

    A Note to Banned Paul:

    Regarding the censure vote – it was not called to a vote so of course they did not vote for it. It was recommended for investigation.

    Regarding the UAE – I heard a speech just today by Rumsfeld back in 2002 saying that one of the reasons we needed to go after Iraq was because the UAE had been negotiating with Saddam.

  4. 8)
    Bob Bilse said on 3/15/2006 @ 2:29pm PT: [Permalink]

    It doesn’t appear George’s wings are taking dream at all.

    Is Paul banned? Why? Is it a crime to have one’s pate up their patoot? Hell, you can even be president, when so afflicted; this much has been proven beyond a doubt.

    Besides, he’s a constant reminder as to how such an incompetent could rise to power, to begin with.

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  5. 10)
    gtash said on 3/15/2006 @ 2:51pm PT: [Permalink]

    Sen Harkin and Sen Boxer are now voicing support for Sen Feingold’s resolution of censure.

    Here is a list of Dems who became indignant with Clinton’s behavior with Monica and sought censure. Why aren’t they indignant about the deceit, lies, and malfeasance of President Bush? Why aren’t each of them confronted with this contradiction in front of tv cameras and reporters?

    Daniel Akaka
    Max Baucus
    Byron Dorgan
    Dick Durbin
    Dianne Feinstein
    Daniel Inouye
    Jim Jeffords
    Ted Kennedy
    John Kerry*
    Herb Kohl
    Mary Landrieu
    Carl Levin
    Joe Lieberman
    Blanche Lincoln
    Barbara Mikulski
    Patty Murray
    Jack Reed
    Harry Reid
    Jay Rockefeller
    Chuck Schumer
    Ron Wyden

    The four GOPers who backed censure for Clinton are:

    Pete Domenici
    Mitch Mcconnell
    Gordon Smith
    Olympia Snowe

    Why are the Dems wimping out over this?

  6. 11)
    Roger said on 3/15/2006 @ 3:38pm PT: [Permalink]

    Because they are AFRAID of a political backlash. Wimps! If they went after him strong, hard and in unison the public would cheer and it would be front page news, but nooooo. The dems have to try and play it safe and it just makes them look, I don’t know, sheepish? Weak? Pathetic? When will there be a politician with a real vision?

    Brad Friedman for President!!!!

  7. 12)
    river said on 3/15/2006 @ 3:42pm PT: [Permalink]

    Why *are* the Dems wimping out? Could it be blackmail? Is some neocon holding information on each one of them to keep them quiet? Just a thought…

  8. 14)
    Bluebear2 said on 3/15/2006 @ 4:05pm PT: [Permalink]

    I’m sorry – It was Cheney who claimed the UAE was negotiating with Saddam.

    It was on the radio while I was driving and they had just been talking about Rumsy so I thought the quote was also by him. The above link sets the story straight.

  9. 15)
    Bluebear2 said on 3/15/2006 @ 4:08pm PT: [Permalink]

    Only 146 days left on the " Until Dubya out-tricks Tricky Dick!!" Clock.

    Do you all think he’ll make it?

  10. 16)
    Roger said on 3/15/2006 @ 4:36pm PT: [Permalink]

    If Nixon had a republican congress he never would have resigned. If the democrats held congress, none of this ever would have happened and Bush easily would have lost in ’04. History is not going to be kind to him no matter what. There’s a lot of footage that shows him for the fool he is. He’ll make it (unless somebody shoots his ass).

  11. 17)
    Peg C said on 3/15/2006 @ 4:40pm PT: [Permalink]

    I’m going to float a somewhat different take on the situation here and opine that the single most dangerous misconception progressives are laboring under is the notion of this administration’s "incompetence," as delightful as it is to snicker, howl and jeer over. These guys are very competently – and deliberately – sowing chaos worldwide in furtherance of a total dominance agenda that we as liberal Americans have difficulty comprehending, let alone facing.

    The New World Order isn’t just about globalization and universal corporatocracy, but about the creation of an aristocracy/peonage system very reminiscent of the Middle Ages – and it’s been a long time in the planning (try since the First Word War).

    I’m not going to go into details, since I’m pretty ill at the moment, but I just wanted to throw this out as a warning – that it’s very likely Roverer is chuckling every time that "c" word is mentioned, because it means that we just don’t get it and will be taken totally by surprise when the troops begin to fill up those "detention facilities" scattered throughout the country. By the way, did you know that the "private security firm" DynCorp is going to take over the policing of St. Bernard parish in Louisiana? Still convinced that the mishandling of Katrina was blundering incompetence? DynCorp has an abolutely obscene record, as Kurt Nimmo details.

  12. 18)
    Swaggs said on 3/15/2006 @ 5:24pm PT: [Permalink]

    # 16 River, I’m beginning to think Bush has been using the wire tapping to black mail key members of Congress from both sides of the isle. 🙁

  13. 20)
    Laura said on 3/15/2006 @ 5:52pm PT: [Permalink]

    #17 Peg C……Right on Peg I agree with 100% of what you said. Incompetence is their weapon,and they are using it worldwide.

  14. 22)
    JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 3/15/2006 @ 6:08pm PT: [Permalink]

    #17 – Lots of truth . . . That why the neocon cancer must be rooted out . . . Then brought to justice with Chemo.

  15. 23)
    Jo said on 3/15/2006 @ 6:16pm PT: [Permalink]

    I think Bush is incompetent. Rove is a reincarnation of Hitler. Together they are destroying the world.

  16. 26)
    JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 3/15/2006 @ 6:46pm PT: [Permalink]

    Google . . . . . bush lies. . . 54,000,000 . . . . . bush crime . . . 73,600,000.

  17. 27)
    Jo said on 3/15/2006 @ 8:08pm PT: [Permalink]

    Limbaugh also suggested Clinton was responsible for the death of Milosevic. he says Clinton was about to be called as a witness and TA-dah!! Milosevic is found dead.
    That Limbaugh is quite a detective. :0)

  18. 28)
    Peg C said on 3/15/2006 @ 8:34pm PT: [Permalink]

    Actually. Jo, there’s more there than meets the eye.

    I came back to suggest, delicately, that a clown, a fool, is a perfect front for a gangland coup. PLEASE, people – do not inderestimate the perfidy of "imcompetence." Have you considered the utter genious that has done away with 250 years worth of Constitutional law in 6 years? This gang is playing for keeps – and we are nothing but sawdust in their mills.

  19. 29)
    Floridiot said on 3/16/2006 @ 2:12am PT: [Permalink]

    Yeah Peg C, the first "sawdust in the mill" will be Banned Paul, Ricky and their ilk

  20. 32)
    Roger said on 3/16/2006 @ 2:58am PT: [Permalink]

    If anyone thinks that Bush is any more than a front man…, well, let’s be kind to Paul. He can’t help being an idiot. An IQ of 45 is not conducive to critical thinking.
    Clarification here. Cheney is Hitler, Rove is Goebbles and Bush is Bozo the clown.

  21. 33)
    JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 3/16/2006 @ 3:22am PT: [Permalink]

    Roger, you got 2.5 out of 3 But don’t insult Bozo. . . Bozo isn’t a fascist and bush isn’t funny . . . a Buffoon Yes.

  22. 34)
    Jo said on 3/16/2006 @ 4:05am PT: [Permalink]

    Good points all.

    I didn’t see this anywhere on BB so I thought I would put it up OT. ( if anyone finds it interesting)
    "Halliburtan is the only company that can do the job". Hmmmm….

    Firm Failed to Protect U.S. Troops’ Water
    By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer

    1 hour ago
    WASHINGTON – Halliburton Co. failed to protect the water supply it is paid to purify for U.S. soldiers throughout Iraq, in one instance missing contamination that could have caused "mass sickness or death," an internal company report concluded.

    The report, obtained by The Associated Press, said the company failed to assemble and use its own water purification equipment, allowing contaminated water directly from the Euphrates River to be used for washing and laundry at Camp Ar Ramadi in Ramadi, Iraq.

    The problems discovered last year at that site _ poor training, miscommunication and lax record keeping _ occurred at Halliburton’s other operations throughout Iraq, the report said.

  23. 35)
    Roger said on 3/16/2006 @ 5:43am PT: [Permalink]

    You’re right J o J.
    Sorry Bozo.
    How about Pinky from Pinky and the Brain? Lord knows he can’t be the brain.

  24. 36)
    Jo said on 3/16/2006 @ 6:36am PT: [Permalink]

    Yes. Perfect. Pinky and the brain. Pinky=bush and brain=(rove or cheney?).
    "tomorrow Pinky, we do what we do everyday, plan to take over the world"

  25. 37)
    Dredd said on 3/16/2006 @ 7:00am PT: [Permalink]

    There is another place where The Dick republican and The Bush republican are way above the dems:

    APPROVED by Republicans:
    NATIONAL DEBT
    $9,000,000,000,000.00

    Yep, those fiscal conservatives that rule the White House, Senate, House, and all Cabinet Departments have gone over the top, ballistic, and are rapidly taking over the poor house.

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  26. 38)
    JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 3/16/2006 @ 7:13am PT: [Permalink]

    Dredd, I wonder how much of the $9,000,000,000,000.00 is in pockets of "Corrupt republicans" & their supporters?

  27. 39)
    Roger said on 3/16/2006 @ 8:06am PT: [Permalink]

    Talk about the redistribution of wealth. It’s all getting redistributed to the top. Legal theft. :crazy:

  28. 40)
    Dredd said on 3/16/2006 @ 8:56am PT: [Permalink]

    JoJ #38

    I think big chunks of it have been directed to republican coffers for the upcoming election.

    Bush can not think ahead, so I doubt he is scared as hell as he should be if the republicans loose the House and Senate.

    His ass is grass if that happens.

    So untold billions have likely been laundered by the fraudy republican election machine.

    The people are going to have to pay close attention this November.

  29. 42)
    JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 3/16/2006 @ 11:13am PT: [Permalink]

    The "neocon News Diversions " are beginning AGAIN! . . . "Wag The Stupid . . . . .’s "

  30. 43)
    bluebear 2 said on 3/16/2006 @ 11:35am PT: [Permalink]

    "Bu Bu But I I’m fighting the War on Terror. It it it’s ha har hard work. We we’re working ha hard! Got gotta f f fight em o o over the the there be be before they co co come ov ov over h he here!"

    Thanks George!

  31. 44)
    Roger said on 3/16/2006 @ 11:41am PT: [Permalink]

    They can’t win the argument so they do the next best thing, they kill people. Strong response, yeah, that’s the ticket.

  32. 47)
    Jo said on 3/16/2006 @ 7:11pm PT: [Permalink]

    Good thing we have fiscal conservatives running things. :0(
    These are the same people who think medical care and food stamps for old folks and kids are a waste of money. Remember in the 1990’s when we were running a surplus?

    Senate Passes $2.8 Trillion 2007 Budget
    By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer

    1 hour ago
    WASHINGTON – Congress pushed the ceiling on the national debt to nearly $9 trillion Thursday

  33. 48)
    Nicolas said on 3/16/2006 @ 8:16pm PT: [Permalink]

    Check your source: 29 is not a percentage but the number of respondends. Still Bush remains a dangerous incompentent lying bastard. Let’s impeach him before he sets the whole world ablaze with his own WMD!

  34. 49)
    Jaded said on 3/17/2006 @ 12:33am PT: [Permalink]

    I can remember trying to explain to my young sons about the Gulf War and when the USA went into Afghanistan it was unclear what the mission was about. Horrific treatment of others(Taliban)?…that exist in many places in this world! And then the USA mentioned the first words of Iraq so I took out the globe and this was over three years ago. I pointed out Afghanistan to the boys and then I pointed out Iraq…..and the it dawned on me…..Iran was smack dab in the middle…ah ha! I knew then they had their sights set on IRAN. Then I explained to these young lads that this country, Iran, has been the nemesis of the USA forever. So ultimitely it was never about Afghanistan nor Iraq. This whole costly war has always been about Iran! And now we are hearing the version of the USA trying to bring the curtain down on Iran. "They are building nuclear weapons". I had a friend that worked within 30 miles of this facility (2 years ago under an Italian firm) and he says that wanting nuclear energy is a pile of shit. They are trying to make nuclear weapons because as far as energy, they burn off everyday in flares would more than suffice any energy requirements ever needed. Why doesn’t the American Government be honest with the people? There is no one in America that can be as stupid as George W Bush yet he seems to be the one they trust and vote in and they know he is lying to them and they lay down and take it. The democrats stuck their fingers up there ass, as a motion in the government went unheeded by democrats, to censure the President! What not impeachment? No they could not even bring themselves to vote for censure…I saw as Ted Kennedy refused to acknowledge the camera, and also Kerry and many other democrats. If they do not stand against this…what the hell are they there to do?
    Waste taxpayers money, large ballroom gala’s, feel good sessions? I am curious what in the hell are the Republicans on? And are they slipping it in to the democrats H2O?? With a government as corrupt as the American government when do the people stand up and be counted….in a few years they will be shot by their own elected government for treason or protesting. Maybe the Americans will beat the Iraqi’s to the punch and have a civil war first. That will clean out all the good people and leave the politicians hiding in their holes waiting for the rise of the left once again.

  35. 50)
    Jaded said on 3/17/2006 @ 12:38am PT: [Permalink]

    P.S. In a nuclear war only cock roaches survive. So if the replublicans crawl out of their nuked hole…TA DA..the evolution of the cock roach….with beady eyes and a bush.

  36. 51)
    Jaded said on 3/17/2006 @ 12:42am PT: [Permalink]

    The greatest lie ever told!
    Republican’s had it sold!
    Middle East will never fold,
    Democrat’s are still on hold!

  37. 52)
    Roger said on 3/17/2006 @ 5:27am PT: [Permalink]

    Guess the rating has to go to -50 before the dems stand up for the people they supposedly represent. I agree, J. This has always been about Iran. China gets much of it’s oil from them so to curb their power neo-con men think its a good idea to attack part of their flow. Now China is going into South America where anti-Americanism is increasing. How this will end is anybody’s guess but if something isn’t done soon, we’re all in a lot of trouble.

  38. 53)
    JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 3/17/2006 @ 10:31am PT: [Permalink]

    When I first saw the smirk, smerk, smurk I knew somesting wasn’t just . . . right . . . . .

  39. 55)
    Roger said on 3/17/2006 @ 2:48pm PT: [Permalink]

    That’s a good one BlueBear. Sent it on to my brother. If people can’t see from this that his actions don’t coincide with his words, there’s no hope for them.

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