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The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works....(Barack Obama)


Thursday, May 01, 2008

Just Look at the Equation the Republicans Produced

Just look at what the Republican Party produced to begin the 21st century:
A new poll suggests that George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush his handling his job as president.

"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.
It's a remarkable achievement especially since it eclipses one of their other notorious achievements, the unpopularity of the only President who resigned from the Presidency in US history:
CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider adds, "He is more unpopular than Richard Nixon was just before he resigned from the presidency in August 1974." President Nixon's disapproval rating in August 1974 stood at 67 percent.
In fact, Bush is now as unpopular as his brainchild, the Iraq war, with all its corpses, suffering, wasted and missing tax dollars:
The poll also indicates that support for the war in Iraq has never been lower. Thirty percent of those questioned favored the war while 68 percent opposed the conflict.

"Support for the war, the assessment of the economy and approval of Mr. Bush are all about the same — bad," Schneider said.
Bush = Iraq war. The American people will graduate to a slightly higher level of mathematics when they fully understand:
[((Bush = Iraq war) = John McCain) = Republican Party]
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