New Rasmussen(I know but...) Dems Favored Over Bush On Nati'l Security

[kpete]

New Rasmussen Poll: Dems Favored Over Bush On National Security
Everyone has been saying the politics of the Dubai Ports World deal is bad news for President Bush. Well, now we have an idea of just how bad. Rasmussen Reports has just released a poll showing that Americans now trust Democrats in Congress more than President Bush on the issue of national security by a margin of 43% to 41%. Only 17% of those polled favor the DPW deal, 64% oppose.

Let's stipulate something up front: this is a single poll taken at the height of both the Congressional and public outburst over the realization of the DPW deal. That said, it does give an idea of how deeply negative the public's initial reaction to the deal was.

The debate in the press seems to have moved back in favor of the President's position, at least to some degree, but whether the public follows along with that shift in the coming weeks is another matter. I suspect there is a substantial block of people (on both the left and the right) whose opposition to the deal won't be shaken no matter how effective the White House is at putting on a full court press - if that's what they decide to do.

If the numbers Rasmussen produced on DPW and national security are confirmed by other polls, the political implications are pretty darn big. There's no way Republicans in Congress - especially those up for reelection this November - are going to stand by and let this single deal (irrespective of the merits) erase a 10-20 point advantage over Democrats on national security. Ain't gonna happen. Unless the numbers change significantly, there is no way Congress is going to let this deal go through as is.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/blog/2006/02/new_rasmussen_poll_dems_favore.html

[LiberalEsto]

1. And Rasmussen is a rightie pollster

I wonder what kind of numbers Zogby is pulling up?

[Peace Patriot]

2. 17%? That's also Dick Cheney's approval rating (really.)

Bush's is twice that--boy is he popular.

But I disagree with this writer. Neither the Bush junta nor its lapdogs in Congress (nor half the Democrats, for that matter) give a flying fuck what the American people think.

One other thought: The Arab sheiks might be a stalking horse for Halliburton. Think about it. Get people all in a dither about Americans should be running our ports. Pretend to say, "no, thanks" to the sheiks (everybody laughing at us behind their sleeves); pay them off. Enter Halliburton. And after Cheney's dirty deal in Louisiana (getting the first no-bid contract near one of the nation's largest oil/sea facilities--probably by blackmailing Bush Jr. on Traitorgate (that's one of the things I think was going on during that strange week of Katrina)), Cheney ends up Master of the Entire Perimeter of the United States, all guarded by Blackwell privateers from Iraq, with day labor imported from countries the junta has destroyed in the Middle East and paid shit wages, and the Longshoreman's union (best in the country) busted. Added advantages--freewheeling arms and drug trade, WMDs, constant "terrorist" threat (real one, compliments our retired V-P), and more.