President facing ‘gray and gloomy’ electorate (try ticked off) Poll

[lovuian]

Ya we are TICKED off!!! Gloomy what a freakin understatement!!!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11103804/


WASHINGTON - Heading into Tuesday's State of the Union address and the beginning of the 2006 political season, President Bush faces an electorate that continues to be dissatisfied with his job performance, increasingly wants U.S. soldiers to come home from Iraq, and believes the Republican Party is associated more with special interests and lobbyists, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

The overall political climate for Bush is “gray and gloomy,” says Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted this survey with Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart. “In general, people are just not in a happy mood.”

The poll, however, contains a slice of good news for the Bush administration: A small majority approves of the administration’s controversial use of domestic wiretaps without a court order to track calls between terrorist suspects and U.S. residents. But a majority also believes that these wiretaps could be misused.

The survey, which was conducted from Jan. 26-29 of 1,011 adults and which has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, shows Bush’s approval rating at 39 percent, which is unchanged from last month’s NBC/Journal poll. (Other recent national surveys have shown his approval rating to be slightly higher, in the low 40s.) In addition, only 25 percent say they want to see Bush take the lead role in setting policy for the country, while 49 percent say they prefer Congress.
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Interesting
Gray and Gloomy lets try Royally Pissed off!!!

[mcscajun]

1. F'in Furious is more like it.

It's hard to fight the urge to want to smash his face in everytime I see him on the tube. (I change channels darned quick, I tell you that!)

[0007]

3. I can't find the changer fast enough and half the time I wind up

breaking something.

[mrcheerful]

8. Your doing much better the I am

I want to run every flag waving I love jebus bumper stickered W for pres car rght into a tree or light pole. But after taking my chil pills I'm much better now, roflmao. NOT.

[wordpix2]

19. furious and if he screws up any more, revolution-minded

[BiggJawn]

20. My neighbours probably think I'm nuts.

Everytime that bastard comes on the radio I yell "FUCK YOU!" until he shuts up.

Hey, I'm a traitor who MUST be "hiding something" because I think it's illegal for Il Douche to be spying on us, remember?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. You beat me by a minute! Lots of good stuff in this survey. n/t

MKJ

[jefferson_dem]

4. Some interesting tidbits from the poll, which signal chimp troubles - -

In addition, only 25 percent say they want to see Bush take the lead role in setting policy for the country.

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Asked which goal they’d pick if America could achieve just one thing in the coming year, 35 percent said they’d choose bringing most of the American forces home from Iraq; 20 percent cited dealing with the cost of health care and coverage for the uninsured; 17 percent said stimulating the economy and job growth; and 11 percent said simplifying the Medicare prescription-drug benefit for seniors. Only 7 percent chose reducing taxes as their No. 1 goal.

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In another sign that Americans want to bring the soldiers home, the poll shows that 66 percent want to reduce the number of U.S. troops. Yet just 28 percent want to maintain the current troop level — down from 35 percent in December. McInturff explains that Republicans and others expected the largely successful Iraqi election in December would help justify the administration’s stay-the-course Iraq strategy with the public. “It may have done just the opposite,” he says.

[wordpix]

22. * won't listen to "bring the troops home" since he's protecting Big Oil

interests in the ME and that's why we're there in the first place.

[Atmashine]

5. Didn't they say this last year? nt

[lovuian]

6. Don't you love this line “In general, people are just not in a happy mood.

Thats by a Democratic Pollster... Peter honey it indicates people are SUPER PISSED!!!

Not a Happy mood... are they talking to Sesame Street kids!!!

Be a damn Democrat and tell it like it is

The People have been screwed and THEY KNOW IT!!!

[AndyA]

7. George Bush = Adolf Hitler

The resemblance is uncanny, and I don't mean the physical resemblance.

[driver8]

9. So we are ticked off?? Who cares? We can't do shit about it.

King Georgie will continue on his merry way, destroying everything he touches and driving this country deeper and deeper into the ground.

Shrubby's approval rating could be 10% and it wouldn't fucking matter. The rethugs will get everything they want while the spineless dems sit there and take it up the ass...just as they have been taking it for the past five years.

Fuck Bush, the polls, the media, the Senate and anyone else who has pissed me off today.

[lovuian]

10. evidentally tweety is talking all about this poll

Tweety called them Explosive results he knows!!!

[Merlot]

11. "A small majority approves..."

A small majority of people actually think that tracking calls between terrorist "suspects" and US residents doesn't mean THEM.

Really, how did they phrase that question?

[lovuian]

13. That is very deceptive and even with that wording

people weren't decieved... In other words Americans don't want wiretapping by their President...

[aquart]

17. The question was wholly deceptive.

Since 2002, the Bush administration has been using wiretaps to listen to telephone calls between suspected terrorists in other countries and American citizens in the United States without getting a court order to do so. Do you approve or disapprove of the Bush administration's approach on this issue?

Approve 51
Disapprove 46
Not sure 3

It pretends this is the old movie kind of wiretap, specific to one home or phone or person. Clearly, the population is still confused about what dear George is doing.

[salin]

18. Bingo!

Were the question reworded to change "using wiretaps to listen to telephone calls between suspected terrorists inother countries and American citizens in the United States..."

to: "using wiretaps to listen to telephone calls between American citizens and people in other countries in order to find out if either party in the phone call might have any inclination to be in any way affiliated with anyone who could be construed to possibly have connections to anti-bush sentiments that could be construed as obstructions to the policies of the Administration and therefor, according to some radical right politicians might be considered to be terrorists - without getting a court order to do so. Do you approve..."

All of the "maybe" words, the "wide net" nature of the program - and the odd way that the administration decides to term folks who are not "With Them" politically to be potential terrorists - ought to be considered when the admin flouts their spin of "suspected terrorists" - given that a similar program in the Pentagon has indulged in spying on peace groups and other similar groups through a program for detecting and spying on suspected domestic threats on "military installations." As if a small group handing out PB&J sandwhiches at lunch time in front of Halliburton to call attention to the price gauging and poor services delivered for their contract to provide meals to the troops in Iraq was a "suspected terrorist" group - but they were identified, spied on and dossiers compiled.

[kurth]

12. 39% still asking for more - with or without lubrication

Fucking brain dead traitors.

[lovuian]

14. Well the way I look at it 61% + 39% = 100%

so who is the majority here???

The 61% that really bodes badly for Bush!!!

[FooFootheSnoo]

15. I would need a lot of tums

to quell my rolling stomach if I was Bush right now.

[fearnobush]

16. Republican Party - We're all about the greed.

The party for elected personal enrichment. We'll pretend to lower your taxes while we steal from you. Vote Republican, vote for greed in 2006.

[lonestarnot]

21. heh heh heh