As Jay Leno put it the other night "approval rating?, shouldnt it be dis approval rating?"

Bush Approval Rating Slides

To New Low Of 34%

11-18-5

(AFP) -- President George W Bush's job approval rating has touched a new low of 34%, according to a new survey. New York - President George W Bush's job approval rating has touched a new low of 34%, according to a US survey published on Thursday by Harris Interactive.

While one in three Americans rated Bush's performance in the White house as "positive," 65% said it was "only fair" or "poor," the poll showed.

Bush's approval rating has been slipping from 50% when he was re-elected in November 2004, to 45% in June to 40% in August of this year, according to the New York-based pollster.

In 2001, at the start of his first four-year term, Bush enjoyed a 56% approval rating, which shot up to 88% after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

In April 2003, as the United States geared up for an invasion of Iraq, 70% of Americans approved of the Republican president's job performance, but his approval ratings had been steadily falling for a year.

Compared with other two-term presidents at a similar point in their mandates, Bush is now slightly more popular than Richard Nixon's 29% approval rating.

At the end of their fifth year in office, Lyndon Johnson had a 67% rating, Ronald Reagan 66% and Bill Clinton 58%.

In the latest Harris survey, Vice President Dick Cheney fared even worse than his boss, with just 30% of Americans believing he was doing a good job, down from 35% in August.

Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld matched Bush with a 34% approval rating, sliding from 40% in the previous poll.

Sixty-eight of those polled said the country was on the "wrong track," while 27% said it was headed in the "right direction."

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice remains the public's favourite in the Bush administration, but her star is also falling, to 52% from 57% in August.

The telephone survey of 1 011 Americans was conducted between November 8 and 13.

http://rense.com/general68/bushapprovalratings.htm

Bush Taking Anti-Depressants

To Control Mood Swings

Note - This story first appeared in July, 2004. Reports of the ongoing mental and emotional decline of the President suggest things have seriously deteriorated from the conditions first described below. Reports of illegal drugs and drinking are now common. Add these 'passtimes' to SSRI antidepressants and you have a dangerously dysfunctional, potentially catastrophic combination. -ed

11-18-5

By Capitol Hill Blue Staff

7-28-4

President George W. Bush is taking anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia, Capitol Hill Blue has learned.

The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair the President's mental faculties and decrease both his physical capabilities and his ability to respond to a crisis, administration aides admit privately.

"It's a double-edged sword, says one aide. "We can't have him flying off the handle at the slightest provocation but we also need a President who is alert mentally.

Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a clearly-upset Bush stormed off stage on July 8, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay.

"Keep those mother######ers away from me, he screamed at an aide backstage. "If you can't, I,ll find someone who can.

Bush's mental stability has become the topic of Washington whispers in recent months. Capitol Hill Blue first reported on June 4 about increasing concern among White House aides over the President's wide mood swings and obscene outbursts.

Although GOP loyalists dismissed the reports an anti-Bush propaganda, the reports were later confirmed by prominent George Washington University psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank diagnosed the President as a "paranoid meglomaniac and "untreated alcoholic whose "lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions and pumping his hand gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad showcase Bush's instabilities.

"I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching everything he did and reading what he wrote and watching him on videotape. I felt he was disturbed, Dr. Frank said. "He fits the profile of a former drinker whose alcoholism has been arrested but not treated.

Dr. Frank's conclusions have been praised by other prominent psychiatrists, including Dr. James Grotstein, Professor at UCLA Medical Center, and Dr. Irvin Yalom, MD, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Medical School.

The doctors also worry about the wisdom of giving powerful anti-depressant drugs to a person with a history of chemical dependency. Bush is an admitted alcoholic, although he never sought treatment in a formal program, and stories about his cocaine use as a younger man haunted his campaigns for Texas governor and his first campaign for President.

"President Bush is an untreated alcoholic with paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies," Dr. Frank adds.

The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment on this article.

The exact drugs Bush takes to control his depression and behavior are not known. While Col. Tubb regularly releases a synopsis of the President's annual physical, details of the President's health and any drugs or treatment he may receive are not public record and are guarded zealously by the secretive cadre of aides that surround the President.

Veteran White House watchers say the ability to control information about Bush's health, either physical or mental, is similar to Ronald Reagan's second term when aides managed to conceal the President's increasing memory lapses that signaled the onslaught of Alzheimer's Disease.

It also brings back memories of Richard Nixon's final days when the soon-to-resign President wandered the halls and talked to portraits of former Presidents. The stories didn't emerge until after Nixon left office.

One long-time GOP political consultant who for obvious reasons asked not to be identified said he is advising his Republican Congressional candidates to keep their distance from Bush.

"We have to face the very real possibility that the President of the United States is loony tunes, he says sadly. "That's not good for my candidates, it's not good for the party and it's certainly not good for the country.

© Copyright 2005 by Capitol Hill Blue

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cgi-bin/

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I love fiction - certainly makes a better story than reality!!!

I love fiction - certainly makes a better story than reality!!!

Right On, Brit!

It's not like Dubya's got three more years in office or anything!

The telephone survey of 1 011 Americans was conducted between November 8 and 13.

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Read between the lines. The survey was conducted in Chuck Shumer's home district. Whaddya 'spect?

"Beware the man who uses statistics as a drunkard uses a lamp post, for support rather than for illumination!"

Amen!

The telephone survey of 1 011 Americans was conducted between November 8 and 13.

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Read between the lines. The survey was conducted in Chuck Shumer's home district. Whaddya 'spect?

"Beware the man who uses statistics as a drunkard uses a lamp post, for support rather than for illumination!"

Amen!

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That's a great quote, Spee!

Dubya's approval rating may be a little low right now but he's got another three (3) years to go! At lest he's not been Impeached like some we know:

Bill Clinton Waffles On Iraq: 'It Could Still Work'

"Having declared last Wednesday that the U.S. invasion of Iraq was a "big mistake," former President Bill Clinton now thinks the Bush Administration policy may succeed."

34%, its a shame really!

Dubya's approval rating may be a little low right now but he's got another three (3) years to go! 

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Pls, stop reminding us...

Heading towards 2 records at the end of term:

-Largest term accumulated deficit in American history (Bush Snr has the old record;)

-Lowest rating of any U.S. Pres in history

refreshing to know 66% of Americans have sussed the dynamic duo of Bush/Rove tho

Might add - that GWB doesnt care about polls, so basically its not very useful and basically a waste of time for 2nd term presidents.

34%, its a shame really!

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Yeah, a shame that 34% are so thick that they don't get it.

Might add - that GWB doesnt care about polls, so basically its not very useful and basically a waste of time for 2nd term presidents.

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Yeah, but the Republican Party cares about polls and their members in Congress can put a halt to just about anything he tries to do.

34%, its a shame really!

Yeah, a shame that 34% are so thick that they don't get it.

Ahh...what's that elusive "IT" there, Chownah?

34%, its a shame really!

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Yeah, I bet Chuckie Shumer and HRClinton are quite pissed that 34% of their constituency felt Bush is doing a good job.

Iraq's oil: The spoils of war

By Philip Thornton, Economics Correspondent

Published: 22 November 2005

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle...ticle328526.ece

Only slightly off-topic:

This is torture?

From the WTI report on torture & interrogation:

Humiliation/sexual abuse

Severe humiliation through nakedness, violations of Muslim customs, and other methods have been pervasive.

"According to a PHR source familiar with conditions in Guantánamo, female interrogators sat on detainees' laps and fondled themselves or detainees, opened their blouses and pushed their breasts in the faces of detainees, kissed detainees and if rejected, accused them of liking men, and forced detainees to look at pornographic pictures or videos."

Thinking about swapping sides here. Maybe get captured by these fiendish Americans at the earliest possible opportunity!

your off topic smegma

Only slightly off-topic:

This is torture?

From the WTI report on torture & interrogation:

Humiliation/sexual abuse

Severe humiliation through nakedness, violations of Muslim customs, and other methods have been pervasive.

"According to a PHR source familiar with conditions in Guantánamo, female interrogators sat on detainees' laps and fondled themselves or detainees, opened their blouses and pushed their breasts in the faces of detainees, kissed detainees and if rejected, accused them of liking men, and forced detainees to look at pornographic pictures or videos."

Thinking about swapping sides here.  Maybe get captured by these fiendish Americans at the earliest possible opportunity!

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Well, if it's fair to bring up Clinton (ad nauseum), it's fair to repost this joke:

Will SOMEONE please give GWB a blow job so we can finally impeach him already?

The Congressional Democrats approval rating is 2 points less than Bush at 32%.

We are talking about the President of the good ole USA - 34% = very very sad.

oust, impeach, kick around the courtyard

The Democrats are approved of by the people even less . The ratings indicate a dissatisfaction with government in general across the board and en toto.

I dont care about the democrats either. Im not a republican, nor a democrat. Bush's approval rating is 34%, he is the president of the USA = very sad and probably the actual figure when the votes were doctored in the last "selection".

The Democrats are approved of by the people even less .  The ratings indicate a dissatisfaction with government in general across the board and en toto.

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The democrats are as much guilty as Bush. Everyone can see this. They didn't fulfill their role as a true and credible opposition. Instead they rolled over like the American public. Maybe another poll about what Americans think of their fellow americans would reveal how low an opinion they have of other Americans who supported the war. They are as much guilty as Bush. They fell for it out of lazyness and ignorance.

That would mean millions of votes.

I'm proud of those nations who stand together despite our presidents lack of approval, amongst them are the former Soviet satellites. The former satellites know the difference between the US and tyranny.

That would mean millions of votes. 

I'm proud of those nations who stand together despite our presidents lack of approval, amongst them are the former Soviet satellites. The former satellites know the difference between the US and tyranny. 

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I think you need to do a little more searching.

I think you need to do a little more searching.

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I think you need to find a better premise to your thread!

A telephone survey of 1000 people does not represent a broad cross section of the US population of some 300 million.

Spee, find a few surveys yourself, I am interested to see what you will post.

all current ofcourse.

Torny - face it you have 3 more years, just accept and move on.