Bush makes historical record for failure

Bush Disapproval Rating Makes History
CNN
Posted: 2008-05-02 11:34:39
Filed Under: Nation News, Politics News
WASHINGTON (May 1) - A new poll suggests that President Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush is 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 Keating Holland, CNN's polling director."Bush's approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll, remains better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon [22 percent and 24 percent, respectively], but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s," Holland said. "The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by Truman, 67 percent disapproval in January 1952."While Gallup polling goes back to the 1930s, it wasn't until the Truman years that they began surveying monthly approval ratings.

How would you rate Bush's performance as president?
Poor
74%
Good
11%
Fair
9%
Excellent
6%
Total Votes: 127,159

Does he deserve the lowest presidential approval rating in modern history?
Yes
74%
No
26%
Total Votes: 125,436

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Will congress notice this? Will the GOP in congress notice this?

For the readers who still support Bush, the question is why? When asked about this the people who call into shows will say it's because he kept us safe since 9-11, but they never seem to have an answer as to why it is he was in the chair the day we were hit or why it seems that every defense this nation had all failed at the same time. I've heard them say that it's because we have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan but they never seem to have an answer as to why that is or why it has also been apparent that he has not taken care of any of them.

As a Chaplain, I want to get CERT training, Community Emergency Response Teams, so that I can respond better to emergencies. I just returned from the local fire station only to find the program has been canceled because of budget cutbacks here in Florida. That's how bad things have gotten. They had to cut a program to train volunteers!

A report came out the other day on employment and it listed the number one hiring as the federal government. Local governments are cutting jobs.

Fallout from tight state budget will impact many Floridians
The budget set to pass today is $5.7B smaller than that in 2007.
John Kennedy and Jim Stratton Sentinel Staff Writers
May 2, 2008

TALLAHASSEE - The $66.2 billion no-new-taxes state budget the Florida Legislature will approve today will reverberate across Central Florida.Services from courts to drivers-license offices will be cut back; government workers won't get raises. Teachers will lose their jobs; services for the disabled will shrink; and nursing-home patients might wait longer for bedside care.College and university students will pay about $70, or 6 percent, more per semester. There will be no sales-tax holiday for hurricane preparedness; the one for back-to-school items is shortened to seven days and doesn't include books. And parents will find it tougher to place their children in arts classes, summer school or other specialty programs.

71 workers in Seminole laid off in cutbacks
Sandra Pedicini Sentinel Staff Writer
May 2, 2008
Seminole County on Thursday eliminated about 110 positions from its work force of about 1,400 employees to help balance its budget.Seventy-one people are being laid off, effective immediately, county officials said.Seminole residents will feel the effects, as well, of the changes, which a county spokeswoman said would cut about $14 million from the county's general fund budget, paid for by property taxes. Additional money will be cut from other funds, paid for with revenue from sources such as sales-tax revenue and fire assessments.

Again, I would really like to know why anyone is supporting Bush now.