Bush approval down to 21% in ARG poll

It's not exactly news that George W. Bush's job approval rating has been in free fall for the last few years.

And it's also true that the American Research Group (the yellow-diamond symbol in Pollkatz's Bush approval rating graph) often comes up with Bush's lowest numbers among pollsters (and has had Bush around the 20% mark before).

Still, there's just something amazing about a presidential approval rating of TWENTY-ONE!

Rasmussen's poll, which tends to give Bush his highest ratings, most recently shows 33% approval, but that can be separated into 13% who strongly approve and 20% who somewhat approve.

•  Who are these idiots?

  21%?? Is there something in the water?

  by MakeChessNotWar on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:01:49 PM PDT

  •  I thought there might be MDA in the water

    But upon closer examination, I think it is MSM.  

    by ruscle on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:04:14 PM PDT

  •  My relatives....

    The fact that Osama-been-forgotten hasn't killed thousands of people since 9/11 is because of chimpy mcstagger.

    When you point out that OBL has achieved everything he set out to do, it goes right over their head.

    They don't live in the same world as the rest of us.

    This is why I got the hell out of the south.

    by ssgbryan on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:04:50 PM PDT

    •  You'd think thousands of people in other

      countries would count. But no, they mean thousands of people, all at once, on their TV sets.

      by Antacid on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 03:23:12 AM PDT

  •  They live in the margin of error.

    by David Kroning on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:08:31 PM PDT

    •  Denizens of the Erroneum.

      by trivium on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:35:12 PM PDT

      •  21% of Fundamentalists are of the opinion that

        the Sun revolves around the Earth, according to this article I that I googlized on the internets.  If Bush is at 21%, he is scraping the bottom of the Erroneous barrel lodged in a worm-hole protruding from the margins of the Erroneum.  

        by Eikyu Saha on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 12:52:01 AM PDT

    •  Really?

      You sure it isn't the Margin of Terror?

      by Spoc42 on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 02:20:21 AM PDT

•  His father must be so proud...

  by steelman on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:03:14 PM PDT

•  Still means

  that 21% of America needs to have their heads examined

  It just seems unbelievable --

  so sad that the GOP/Republicans are such idiots

  by sara seattle on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:03:48 PM PDT

  •  They had that examination.

    The good doctor sez, "Here, this Prozac will do ya jes fine."  And so it does.

    Who can disapprove of anything when you got the Wonder Pill that makes everything hunky dory?

    by spotDawa on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 02:01:05 AM PDT

    •  Except...

      Research shows that Prozac doesn't work.

      Now how do we explain their idiocy?

      by Spoc42 on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 02:21:33 AM PDT

      •  The placebo effect?? m/t

        by dangangry on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 03:36:49 AM PDT

        •  I think it is more like....

          For years they have come accustomed to just follow along - to agree - no matter what their own personal feelings/opinions were

          and their brains just shut down.... no there, there anymore.

          by sara seattle on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 09:47:58 AM PDT

•  When it gets down to 3 people approving

  I will know it is my wingnut son and his wife and my idiot brother ...

  by Clem Yeobright on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:08:40 PM PDT

  •  Ya, it's kinda hard

    to even admit knowing anyone who still supports the bushbaby.

    The hellofit is, lift a rock...and one pops out.

    by pattisigh on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:11:20 PM PDT

    •  Mom would be so disappointed

      What's the matter with giving a guy a little dunking? Doesn't look so bad to me ...

      - Brother Bob, a genuinely gentle man, on waterboarding

      by Clem Yeobright on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:14:41 PM PDT

      •  Aw Jeez

        I feel for ya.

        Now I've got a brother-in-law I'd like to introduce you to.

        by pattisigh on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:19:18 PM PDT

  •  Yikes, that must hurt at holiday

    gatherings.

    3 of 4 of my brothers are Republicans but 2000 was the last time they voted Republican.

    Funny sig, btw.

    by CanYouBeAngryAndStillDream on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:20:43 PM PDT

    •  Like your sig better, Ron

      I admire what you did so much. Thanks for being an inspiration.

      by Clem Yeobright on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:24:17 PM PDT

      •  That means alot to me, it really does.

        Support from so many good people like you made it all worthwhile. It was the hardest thing I've ever done but it was worth it and I'd do it again.

        by CanYouBeAngryAndStillDream on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:51:10 PM PDT

  •  No!

    one of 'em will be my brother in law!

    by dangangry on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 03:34:09 AM PDT

•  It's a good thing Bush doesn't drink

  Once he falls below 21, he can't get served.

  by Cordelia Lear on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:10:39 PM PDT

  •  He should get served with a warrant

    for his arrest for war crimes.

    by plf515 on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 04:21:17 AM PDT

•  To be honest...

  I think it's lower than that....  See what happens when you steal elections.  In the end he became the WORST President of all times!

  Now have you learned your leason kids, DON'T STEAL.

  by Moxie Gurl on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:11:33 PM PDT

  •  It probably is lower than that

    but at least now it matches his IQ

    by pattisigh on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:12:53 PM PDT

•  Already been diaried

  Here

  by Pragmaticus on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:16:37 PM PDT

  •  Thanks! I missed it at the time. n/t

    by SciVo on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 02:09:09 AM PDT

•  What's the matter with Kansas?

  The "God fearing"-(I've always found that phrase curious)- Love Dubyuh in a way that only a mother has for her newborn child.  It's not just Kansas, but It was a good book.

  by FuddGate on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:28:40 PM PDT

•  And as we all know,

  that 21% consists of Congressional Democrats.

  by corvo on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:45:29 PM PDT

•  Bush screams "ARRRRRGGGGGG~!"

  To be FAIR (and I hate being fair when it comes to President Dickwad), ARG is a terrible polling outfit.

  by OReillysNightmare on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:48:24 PM PDT

•  21%?

  Well, that's more than the percentage of the population that believes Elvis lives (7%) and less than the percentage that believes in UFOs (34%).

  by sja on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 11:51:08 PM PDT

  •  If someone nods or moves their head at some point

    I wonder if that is an affirmative tally.

    by ZappoDave on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 12:51:13 AM PDT

  •  Believe that UFOs are Alien craft?

    We all (100%) believe that some flying objects are initially unidentified...And of course some remain unexplained....but as you know...some people out there

    (34%??! wow!)

    assume that if it is a UFO that it automatically must be an Alien vessel of some sort...(Yeah yeah I'm being picky on the definition...) Instead of relearning that a UFO is just something unidentified...usually a plane or the moon or Venus.

    But who knows.... maybe one or two are something from somewhere else with forgetful super brained tourist beings from beyond at the helm who forgot to take their old jalopy spacecraft in to have the cloaking device tuned up.

    Glurk: whoops, can they see us??

    Flurp: I hope not but I also hope the intergalactic guard don't find out or we could get in serious Flugbuglishk for accidentally breaking the good primitive observation guidelines...

    Glurk: ZXKishklik*!

    Flurp: Well anyway, it's crazy down there - Hooray for Human Dubya!...I hope the stupid earthings elect McCain; much more entertainment value for us tourists...

    Glurk & Flurp: zxdsdf! zxdsdf! zxdsdf!

    by IreGyre on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 03:34:30 AM PDT

    •  Interesting... this new alien species appears to

      have the QWERTY setup on their keyboard.  And they favor their left hands.

      by ShadowSD on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 05:57:34 AM PDT

      •  Rough translation of course...

        using primitive earthoid comm devices...to render it into earthoid accessible form. The data seems to have been fed to a gullible local earthoid client of shadowing off-world agency who is running a sting on incompetent tour ship maintenance operators...who are in place mainly because of the lapsed oversight of the administration of this arm of the galaxy which was fraudulently elected partially with the help of advanced befuddlement technology. The Supreme Lead-i-cator turned out to be an incompetent tool-fool enabling a high level interstellar scam-government keleptocracy... The Supreme Decidicator's name?? Rendered into one of the local earthese dialects; it sounds something like....Geeih Dubiouzshe BUskzxche

        Sounds familiar...Seems there is no escaping greed, incompetence and indifference on this or other worlds...

        by IreGyre on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 08:00:09 AM PDT

•  Probably as low as its going to go

  Bushs' standing will be somewhat rehabilitated by $400 million dollars of GOP propaganda and spin that is going to get thrown at us between now and November. Some disaffected republicans are going to return to the fold. After the election, the Holidays will be upon us and approval rates for everybody generally trend upward. Bushs' approval typically has gotten pounded during the let down after the Holidays, when the bills are due, the weather sucks and the football season is over.

  by JohnnyAppleseed on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 12:28:33 AM PDT

•  I know - I know -- it's the ARG

  but I swear - he is dipping down. I've bumped into a couple W diehards the last couple weeks, and even they are shaking their heads.

  W? The jig is up.

  by ZappoDave on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 12:50:06 AM PDT

•  I think they all live in Utah n/t

  by jim0121 on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 02:27:12 AM PDT

•  And for years to come...

  They will look back on the golden era of Bush II reverently...Fixated memes and stubborn loyalty will trump reality every time

  After all, post WWII there were plenty of Germans who thought poor misunderstood old Uncle Adolf was just peachy...and carried the same notions to their graves.

  If those misguided and stupidly steadfast types over in Germany (and elsewhere) could totally get the 3rd Reich wrong after the fact...how much more easy for the same sorts of mindsets to blindly ignore the fiascoes and crimes of poor old Dubya here in the good old USA. They could be described as Basil Fawlty types..fawning over Authority and in absolute denial of ever being wrong....

  by IreGyre on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 02:51:03 AM PDT

  •  Just wait for the first time

    some terrorist action happens when Obama is President. Then all we'll hear from the MSM is about how Bush would've stopped it. Probably mentioning how he stopped those scary Florida guys from blowing up the Sears Tower, or whatever it was the FBI agent provocateur was trying to get them to go along with.

    by glaser on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 05:02:04 AM PDT

    •  Notice in China

      how many "Terrorist plots" have been uncovered ahead of the Olympics. No doubt some may be just as advertised but you know wishful thinking and expedience can be useful tools for rounding up people that they find annoying or inventing something that fills the bill...win win for everyone. Shady minds think alike...

      by IreGyre on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 08:03:22 AM PDT