“No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president’s disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark,” said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
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rob!
he’s a Uniter!
frogspawn
From Gen Ricardo Sanchez’ memoir:
WTF?
Michael D.
frogspawn: I know. I read that this morning. I couldn’t believe what I was reading. Then I thought, “this is Rumsfeld.”
Jake
The 28% who still support him believe that Adam and Eve rode to work on dinosaurs.
cleek
BushClinton demands Congressional Dems pick sides in the gas holiday issue:such a fine and honest woman.
frogspawn
My thoughts exactly. This ought to be interesting.
Shygetz
Er, what does a gas tax holiday have to do with “taking on the oil companies”? Wow, what a uniter. What a horse trader. What a stunning political savant. What a crock.
TheFountainHead
The sad thing is that neither the statistic nor the explanation for it is likely off by much. It’s getting to the point where I find myself asking, “Can I live in a country with a multi-million dollar creationist museum and where a Presidential candidate has to pass the “Lapel-Pin” test and still have my dignity?”
D.N. Nation
Dear Hillary,
Getting rid of the gas tax will most likely immediately increase demand. Which will increase the price of gas, most likely to the point that it completely covers what would have been the gas tax.
Now, you say, you know this! And you’re not trading infrastructure gains for corporate gains like Johnny Mac. Sure. So you’ll tax the oil companies too! Except…if you tax the oil companies more, they’ll make the price of gas rise even more!
How is this not easy to understand? I’m 25 years old. Barely world-weary. Yeah, I’ve got a college degree, but it’s not Ivy League. I can’t possibly be that much smarter than the rubes who are lapping this up, can I? Can I?
Punchy
And yet Yawn McSame will win the preznitsee. Unreal.
Jake
Clinton demands Congressional Dems pick sides in the gas holiday issue:
That strikes me as incredibly tone-deaf for someone trying to sway superdelegates. She is still trying to sway them, right?
Shinobi
Dignity? Elitist!
wasabi gasp
Does this go in the achievement column?
Z
I’m just glad that more than 70% of the country finally gets it. Welcome aboard!
gex
The simple answer is that a lot of Americans neither have the time nor the inclination to be informed about things. Even if they have the intellectual capacity to understand it.
My dad is a Ph.D., worked in defense for all these years, and is/was a loyal Republican. I tried to explain to him that for all the “free market” rhetoric of the right, that the sheer profits the oil companies make indicates there’s a serious problem with that market. That, when profits are that high, there should be lots of people entering the market, driving profits down. And none of the free-marketers care whether a market is function properly or not.
My dad disagreed. He had no understanding of that basic Econ 101 concept – big profits should bring more competition to a market until profits and prices drop. And of course this is the kind of free market understanding he has used to inform his opinion on policy all these years.
Well, actually, it probably always has been more like his ears perk up when he hears the phrase “tax cut” and without bothering to understand anything about it, supports it because it is the only policy idea the GOP has had since the 80’s.
Shinobi
From the comments at The Carpetbagger Report. The force is strong with this one.
Shinobi
Total lie, that was from TPM.
The Commander Guy
Apparently GWB “officially” sux now.
Halteclere
I find that many of my acquaintances who are now, finally becoming shaky about their support of Bush specifically and Republicans in general are still operating from an ’80’s political mindset.
These people, smart though they are, only catch news from headlines, DJ comments between songs, Yahoo! top stories of the day, etc, which do little to challenge the views that they internalized when younger.
When I bring up the fundamental changes to our government and society that Bush’s conservatism has wrought – rejection of Habeas Corpus, institutionalizing of torture, gross undermining of the rule of law for political reasons, refusing to reign in or even show concern about rampant contractor profiteering and looting in Iraq, uncaring about and not supporting the soldiers returning from the war, unabashedly breaking the law to spy on Americans, and cronyism at its worst – my acquaintances reply “yea, those aren’t things to be happy about. But Democrats only want to raise my taxes, they want to tell me now to live through activist judges (one guy last week was still railing at Thurgood Marshall!), they want to surrender in Iraq, and they can’t keep us safe”.
Basically, these people refuse to reevaluate the heuristics that they were exposed to 20 years ago about politics and the nature of the two parties.
Zifnab
Free Market GOOD.
Taxes BAD.
Four Legs GOODER.
Two Legs BETTER.
LIE-BRULS. Don’t trust them. Just listen to the sound of my voice…
chopper
gotta love the bush speak, coming out of clinton over a fucking gas tax holiday.
Glocksman
Back in 1984 I put in hundreds of hours at the local GOP headquarters as a volunteer to re-elect Reagan.
Flash forward 24 years and here I am working to ensure that Barack Obama becomes POTUS.
George Bush has accomplished what I and others though impossible.
He’s made me a Democrat.
Gregory
…which means that the gas tax holiday will only profit the oil companies, since there’s no chance in hell Bush will sign off on a windfall profits tax.
Cain
To be fair, Clinton would since she’s advocating for it. Not sure about McCain. People would be screwed with McCain.
If Obama loses and McCain wins, it’s obvious that they haven’t broken down the whole stereotype of the parties yet. It looks like we still need to dig a deeper hole until people finally realize that the Republicans and John McCain have lead the country to utter ruin. The only sector then that will flourish will be the defense sector and the oil sector, but just about everyone else will be screwed.
It frustrates me when I see so many people too busy to know what’s going on with their country. I realize they have pressures of work and hearth, but one should realize that having an eye on the issues, helps you. If you wear a lapel pin, that’s about all the license you need. The big satan here is the press. Consolidation is good to a point, but I think it’s become painfully obvious that something has gone wrong with the press.
cain
Billy K
Thing ya gotta remember is, a good deal of this 70% (I’d guesstimate 20%) disapprove because he’s not conservative ENOUGH. I know some of these people. I’ve seen it in person. It’s…chilling…
les
Unfortunately, she wants the holiday now. She’s not prez now, and gods willing she won’t be.
Bubblegum Tate
Yes, but that means 70 percent of the country hates America and has BDS and doesn’t understand that we’re winning in Iraq where we found the WMDs etc. etc. etc.
I really, really hope we can start recovering a bit of national dignity come January. But I feel like I’m hoping against the odds.
Grumpy Code Monkey
s/conservative/radical/g
Bush is not a conservative, nor are the people who worship him. Reactionary and authoritarian, yes; conservative, no.
Gay Veteran
Conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed, eh?
tofubo
70% disapproval, maybe we should get rid of them ?? impeachment is the ONLY way to forestall blanket commutations, the fact that congress has an 80% disapproval rating may have something to do with the fact they haven’t done ANYTHING to stop the worst administration in this counties history
The Populist
YET Congress doesn’t stand up to him and demand accountability.
Wimps.
The Populist
“I want to know where people stand and I want them to tell us, are they with us or against us when it comes to taking on the oil companies?”
And how exactly is this “Taking on the oil companies”?
gypsy howell
Maybe watching this will help them understand that yes, Virginia, America has been fundamentally altered – and not for the good – by nearly 40 years of relentless republicanism and free marketeering.
J. Michael Neal
Most people never do. If you’re a Democrat, that’s why it’s so important to keep all of the new, young registered voters on board through November. Once you get them, you keep them.
D. Mason
C’mon now. War for pleasure is a policy too.
jonathan
Yeah, but us 28% still control the Nuclear weapons. He He He