ARG Poll: It's (Still) the Economy, Stupid!
By: Lowell
Published On: 6/25/2005 1:00:00 AM
A new American Research Group (ARG) poll released yesterday has some godawful news for President Bush and for Republicans in general. For starters, only 17% of independent voters approve of the job Bush is doing as President. A whopping 75% of independents disapprove of Bush's job performance. This is as bad as the 18% approval/77% disapproval rating for Bush among Democrats. Ouch! (Bush's overall job approval rating is 42%/53%, with Republicans still supporting him in Orwellian, Limbaugh-ian lockstep, but everyone else sensibly jumping ship).
On the economy, it's even more dismal if that's at all possible, with just 37% of Americans saying they approve of Bush's handling of the economy. Among critically important independent voters, only 15% approve -- and 79% disapprove! -- of Bush-o-nomics. Overall, just 22% of Americans think the economy's getting better, with 58% saying it's getting worse. You know, I had to do a few double takes at those numbers, at first thinking they were asking Republicans their views of France or something. But no, these are the dismal, abysmal, cataclysmal (is that a word?) numbers for Bush and Company.
So what does this mean for the Republicans in 2006, not to mention right here in Virginia in November of this year? Well, if Bill Clinton is right that "it's the economy, stupid," they're in "deep doodoo," to quote Bush's dad. Let's face it, Republican policies -- tax cuts for the super-rich, endless favors to mega-corporations, war without end, spending their time worrying about Terry Schiavo and that terrible epidemic (not!) of flag burning -- are a miserable failure. And they will continue to be a miserable failure because they are fundamentally flawed. The answer? Throw the bums out! And, with the combination of independents and Democrats, it looks like Americans are on the verge of doing just that.
Lucky for us Virginians, we get an early start on the Republican defenestration party. Just over four months from now, on November 8, we can send Tom DeLay, Bill Frist and Bush/Cheney a message. By voting out of office the Dave Albos, Bob Marshalls, and Terry Kilgores of the world, we can send the national Republican Party a clear message of disapproval. And by rejecting the failed ideas and divisive policies of Kilgore/Bolling/McDonnell, in favor of the common-sense solutions of Kaine/Byrne/Deeds, we can tell them unequivocally that we do NOT approve of their performance on the economy -- or of Bush-o-nomics in general. We can tell them that "it's STILL the economy, stupid(s)!" I can't wait.
Comments
Let's not get overco (Teddy - 4/4/2006 11:27:08 PM)
Let's not get overconfident ourselves, here. It's a long time to November. Plenty of time for the Bush cabal to engineer more national security "alarums and excursions" and either find Osama bin Laden and/or create a terrorist horror. I wouldn't put it past them. It's happened before and we should plan ahead for this tactic, folks
First the Bush Cabin (Bob Hogan - 4/4/2006 11:27:08 PM)
First the Bush Cabinet stills thik they are in Texas and Bush is governor of Texas, It's the same deadbeat crew of Kove, Karen Hughes, Rice, Cheney, Card ect.... THe outsiders like Paul O'Neil, Colin Powell and others bailed out the first time they could. IT's a very arrogant atmospere where lies can cover lies. I always like the Whitehouse briefings exchanges between Scott (Bush Propagandist) and the reporters, the reporters with years of separating facts from bullshit are almost comical. Bush in reality could have been the Greatest President since F.D.R. after September 11,2001, his poll numbers were sky high and every town and county and city of all economical classes had American flags flying high. WE was the same country has we was on December 7, 1941. Bush could have pulled a F.D.R. and opened up a wartime ecomomy with 100% Congress support and opened up factories with American made goods, such as building supplies,medical supplies, clothing and blankets, food ect..not just to Afghanistan but other poor countries trapped in poverty. The American People have very kind hearts to help the poor and this would have produced American Jobs with Made in America Products and goods to the War Effort. The War on Terror was also A War on Poverty, and still is. Poverty is the biggest recruitment for Terror. Bush with Cheney went the greed route with setting up Texas Corporations to suck all the over $100 Billion tax dollars into War Profiteering Texas Bank Accounts. IT was like the American Citizens were left out of the War Effort and Afghanistan became like the Korean War, THe Forgotten War, then Iraq kicked in and that meant more tax dollars sent to Texas Bank Accounts but again leaving American Wartime Effort Jobs out of the equation. Roosevelt united all Americans in December 1941 and created Wartime Jobs for every America even if we did go into debt, we all got a piece of the War Profit Pie, not just the crumbs.
First the Bush Cabin (Bob Hogan - 4/4/2006 11:27:08 PM)
First the Bush Cabinet stills thik they are in Texas and Bush is governor of Texas, It's the same deadbeat crew of Kove, Karen Hughes, Rice, Cheney, Card ect.... THe outsiders like Paul O'Neil, Colin Powell and others bailed out the first time they could. IT's a very arrogant atmospere where lies can cover lies. I always like the Whitehouse briefings exchanges between Scott (Bush Propagandist) and the reporters, the reporters with years of separating facts from bullshit are almost comical. Bush in reality could have been the Greatest President since F.D.R. after September 11,2001, his poll numbers were sky high and every town and county and city of all economical classes had American flags flying high. WE was the same country has we was on December 7, 1941. Bush could have pulled a F.D.R. and opened up a wartime ecomomy with 100% Congress support and opened up factories with American made goods, such as building supplies,medical supplies, clothing and blankets, food ect..not just to Afghanistan but other poor countries trapped in poverty. The American People have very kind hearts to help the poor and this would have produced American Jobs with Made in America Products and goods to the War Effort. The War on Terror was also A War on Poverty, and still is. Poverty is the biggest recruitment for Terror. Bush with Cheney went the greed route with setting up Texas Corporations to suck all the over $100 Billion tax dollars into War Profiteering Texas Bank Accounts. IT was like the American Citizens were left out of the War Effort and Afghanistan became like the Korean War, THe Forgotten War, then Iraq kicked in and that meant more tax dollars sent to Texas Bank Accounts but again leaving American Wartime Effort Jobs out of the equation. Roosevelt united all Americans in December 1941 and created Wartime Jobs for every America even if we did go into debt, we all got a piece of the War Profit Pie, not just the crumbs.
First the Bush Cabin (Bob Hogan - 4/4/2006 11:27:08 PM)
First the Bush Cabinet stills thik they are in Texas and Bush is governor of Texas, It's the same deadbeat crew of Kove, Karen Hughes, Rice, Cheney, Card ect.... THe outsiders like Paul O'Neil, Colin Powell and others bailed out the first time they could. IT's a very arrogant atmospere where lies can cover lies. I always like the Whitehouse briefings exchanges between Scott (Bush Propagandist) and the reporters, the reporters with years of separating facts from bullshit are almost comical. Bush in reality could have been the Greatest President since F.D.R. after September 11,2001, his poll numbers were sky high and every town and county and city of all economical classes had American flags flying high. WE was the same country has we was on December 7, 1941. Bush could have pulled a F.D.R. and opened up a wartime ecomomy with 100% Congress support and opened up factories with American made goods, such as building supplies,medical supplies, clothing and blankets, food ect..not just to Afghanistan but other poor countries trapped in poverty. The American People have very kind hearts to help the poor and this would have produced American Jobs with Made in America Products and goods to the War Effort. The War on Terror was also A War on Poverty, and still is. Poverty is the biggest recruitment for Terror. Bush with Cheney went the greed route with setting up Texas Corporations to suck all the over $100 Billion tax dollars into War Profiteering Texas Bank Accounts. IT was like the American Citizens were left out of the War Effort and Afghanistan became like the Korean War, THe Forgotten War, then Iraq kicked in and that meant more tax dollars sent to Texas Bank Accounts but again leaving American Wartime Effort Jobs out of the equation. Roosevelt united all Americans in December 1941 and created Wartime Jobs for every America even if we did go into debt, we all got a piece of the War Profit Pie, not just the crumbs.