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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (754147)	11/11/2006 11:22:02 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush approval drops, Democrats' goals backed: poll 1 hour, 23 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Just days after Democrats took over Congress, Americans embraced their top goals and President George W. Bush's job approval rating slid to 31 percent, according to a Newsweek poll issued on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT Huge majorities of those polled said they approved of the legislative priorities cited by Democratic leaders after their party seized control of the Senate and the House of Representatives from Republicans, the magazine said. But they also expressed concerns that Democrats might seek to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq too quickly or hamper the administration's efforts to combat terrorism, it said. The poll surveyed 1,006 adults on Thursday and Friday, following the Democrats' midterm election victory on Tuesday. It had a margin of error of 4 percentage points. The strongest support, 92 percent, was for lowering drug prices for retirees on Medicare by allowing the government to negotiate directly with drug companies. Some three-quarters of respondents said it should be a top priority, according to Newsweek. Americans also supported raising the federal minimum wage (89 percent), investigating government contracts in Iraq (89 percent) and cutting the interest rate of federal student loans (88 percent). Bush's 31-percent job approval rating, down from 35 percent a week earlier, was a new low in Newsweek's polling. Some 63 percent disapproved of the Republican president's job performance, and a full two-thirds agreed that "he won't be able to get much done" in the last two years of his term. The drop in Bush's approval rating came after Wednesday's resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who had been a lightning rod for criticism of the administration's handling of the war in Iraq. While a bare majority of 51 percent called the Democrats' victory "a good thing," even more said they were concerned about some of the actions a Democratic Congress might take, including 78 percent who were somewhat or very concerned that it would seek too hasty a withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Another 69 percent said they were concerned that the new Congress would keep the administration "from doing what is necessary to combat terrorism," and two-thirds said they were concerned it would spend too much time investigating the administration and Republican scandals __________ Edit: The concern about withdrawing too soon is appropriate and I hope being paid attention to by some of the wild ass lefties.

To: longnshort who wrote (754147)	11/12/2006 3:09:06 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

LOL...You think Clinton "ran" from Somalia. What would YOU have done? Would you have put 10,000 troops into Somalia?? Wasn't Reagan the guy that first "ran from confrontation" Over 200 of our guys were killed in Lebanon and Reagan said, "Let's just get all our guys out of there". Clinton used "judicious" force and diplomacy to maintain and control a very volatile world. Bush has used bluster and arrogance to deplete our military, weaken our standing in the world and strengthen our adversaries.