Maybe the Washignton post was just trying to give some aid and comfort to our embattled and increasingly isolated President, aka, Mr. 25%. Maybe they just don't know how to read a poll, but Media Matters today blows the lid off of a shockingly misleading WaPo piece which wrongly implied that Americans are more disaffected with Congressional Democrats than Bush Republicans.Washington Post's Claim:
Bush advisers clutch at Truman as if he were a political life preserver. If Bush has experienced a similar collapse in public support while in office, they hope he will enjoy the same post-presidential reassessment that has made Truman look far better today than in his time. A 2004 poll by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner found that 58 percent of Americans viewed Truman favorably.And the president's team takes solace in the fact that the public holds Congress in low esteem, too. More than half disapproved of Congress generally, and Democrats in particular, in the latest Post-ABC survey, though their ratings were still better than Bush's.
Note that "Democrats in particular"... Completely WRONG!!!! Too bad reality has that noted liberal bias, Media Matters Rebuts:
The Post/ABC poll found approval of Congress at 37 percent, with 60 percent disapproving, but it also found that congressional Republicans had a significantly higher disapproval rating than Democrats. Sixty-four percent of respondents disapproved "of the way the Republicans in Congress are doing their job," compared with 51 percent who disapproved of the Democrats' performance; 34 percent approved of congressional Republicans, while 46 percent approved of congressional Democrats.
Below the fold... George W. Bush is no Harry Truman, he's the anti-Truman.
Truman, a real war hero, faced an impossible threat amid growing nuclear proliferation with intelligence, courage, and authentic strength, while Bush's necon, authoritarianism will be correctly viewed by history as an unprecedented exercise of ignorance and hubris, an angry cowardly shadow of History's greatest Haberdasher.
Bush Republicans need to understand that their life preserver, Harry Truman, in their hands is an anvil.
In fact, a random scan of their biographies shows that it's not just that Bush isn't much like Truman, and it's not just that he doesn't measure up. Bush is practically the anti-Truman.Truman_senator Truman: Voracious reader; checked out half the Library of Congress.
Bush: Married a librarian.
Truman: Oversaw the birth of the United Nations.
Bush: Appointed John Bolton as UN Ambassador.
Truman: Fired MacArthur.
Bush: Gave Paul Bremer a medal; hired Michael Brown back as a consultant.
Truman: Enlisted in the National Guard. Served 37 years! Saw combat as a Captain of Artillery in World War I.
Bush: Do we need to go into it?
Truman: Stood up to the Klan; desegregated the military.
Bush: Spoke at Bob Jones University; let Karl Rove smear John McCain by spreading racist lies.
Truman: As US Senator took on war profiteers.
Bush: As President gave no bid contracts to Haliburton.
Truman: Served as FDR's Vice-President; carried on the New Deal after Roosevelt died.
Bush: Wants to destroy Social Security.
Truman: Worked a real farm.
Bush: Vacations on a toy ranch.
Truman: Played the piano.
Bush: Pretends to play the guitar.
Truman: With George Marshall, rebuilt post-war Europe.
Bush: Let New Orleans drown.
Truman: The buck stops here.
Bush: Buck?