Sometimes, the poll numbers get so low it makes me feel extra special good. Cerebral porn perhaps? From Newsweek:
Bush's new approval low of 36 percent in the NEWSWEEK poll equals the low point of Bill Clinton's presidency in May 1993, when the former president hit 36 percent.Aww yeah, that's what I'm talking about! Show me a little more!
Now is the autumn of Bush's discontent, according to the NEWSWEEK poll, taken by phone of 1,002 Americans over Thursday and Friday nights. The president can take some solace in the fact that 42 percent of Americans believe he is honest and ethical. Only 29 percent believe that Vice President Dick Cheney is. And more than a quarter of Republicans, 26 percent, believe the vice president is not honest and ethical. The growing credibility gap could have ramifications across the president's agenda: 56 percent of Americans say Bush "won't be able to get much done;" only 36 percent say he "can be effective."Now where's my money shot?
Most worrisome for the White House: the base seems to be cracking. When asked whether anyone in the administration "acted unethically" in the case involving the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's name, a 54-percent majority of Americans said they did - and 30 percent of Republicans said they did. And 45 percent of Americans believe someone in the "Bush administration broke the law and acted criminally" - including 22 percent of Republicans.There it is! The President has officially lost the country.
Clinton had a really rocky start to his administration. Interesting that even through impeachment he never went that low again.
