Bush seems unable to move his approval ratings. They remain at an all time low despite huge efforts to gain some traction. Some of the American people are waking up to the fact that we can do better. Even Republicans must see that their party can do better.
The numbers after the jump...
Yahoo news has the score:
Bush's job approval is now at 40 percent and his approval on handling the economy at 39 percent. Those numbers haven't budged over the last month even with the public's confidence in the economy growing and the president delivering an upbeat State of the Union address.
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The poll found low approval of Congress with 47 percent wanting Democrats to take control. Republican control was favored by 37 percent.
The telephone poll of 1,000 adults was conducted Monday through Wednesday and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Bush has managed to get a 5 point bounce on the wiretapping issue. We need to remain agressive on that front.
But the outlook for congress takeover looks encouraging.
Democrats plan to take the offensive (about time too), using the Abramoff scandal to enforce our message of the 'Culture of corruption'. Now if only the SCLM will stop spreading lies about Reid being tied ot the scandal!
While they are at it they can start reporting some truth... not truthiness mind you. Real Truth!
E-Mail Notes Say Lobbyist Met President Many Times
By PHILIP SHENON
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9
The disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff told a magazine editor in recent days that he had met with President Bush many times and was invited to the president's Texas ranch for a gathering of campaign contributors in 2003, the editor said Thursday.
The journalist, Kim Eisler, national editor of Washingtonian magazine, said in an interview that he had received the information in e-mail messages from Mr. Abramoff, a major Republican fund-raiser who pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to bribe public officials. The messages suggest an effort by Mr. Abramoff to cast doubt on Mr. Bush's insistence that he does not recall the two of them meeting and that whatever contact they might have had was fleeting and for the purposes of a handshake and a picture.
In one message, Mr. Abramoff is reported as saying that Mr. Bush had "one of the best memories of any politician I have ever met" and that he "saw me in almost a dozen settings and joked with me about a bunch of things, including details of my kids." It added: "Perhaps he has forgotten everything. Who knows."
Maybe we should turn up the heat.
take the offensive (about time too), using the Abramoff scandal to enforce our message of the 'Culture of corruption'. Now if only the SCLM will stop spreading lies about Reid being tied ot the scandal!
While they are at it they can start reporting some truth... not truthiness mind you.
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