MadDogDave wrote:
Our hero and most beloved by Jesus George W. Bush is being slandered by
those liberal pollsters again.

Those liberals at the wall street journal have the nerve to sponsor this
kind of slander


WASHINGTON --

George W. Bush is in the worst political trouble of his presidency,
according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released
Wednesday night.

Bush’s approval rating now stands at 49 percent, the lowest point of
his tenure.

Whether Democrats will be able to exploit Bush’s woes is unknown,
since they are four months away from their first primary, but party
activists say they are ever more determined to find the candidate who
can go toe to toe with Bush in a debate and reduce his standing to
political rubble.

WITH ONLY 15 months until the general election, the president and his
political strategists have their work cut out for them, especially in
assuring skittish voters that his plan to stabilize Iraq will work.

And, with nearly 9 million Americans unemployed, Bush would also
benefit from stronger signs of an economic recovery.

In a new sign of the risks still facing Bush and the economy, the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries made a surprise move
Wednesday to cut output ahead of the peak winter heating demand
season, pushing the price of oil higher.

Ironically, some Bush administration officials had said a few months
ago that Iraq would be able to pay for much of the cost of its
reconstruction by selling its own oil on world markets.

Sabotage and other problems have kept Iraqi oil production far below
its capacity -- saddling the U.S. taxpayer with the burden of paying
for Iraqi reconstruction.

On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld faced hostile
questions from Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee as he
urged Congress to approve the $87 billion Bush is seeking to pay for
Iraqi occupation and rebuilding.

Presented in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll with various
options for raising the money to pay for the Iraqi project, 56 percent
of respondents said they’d opt for repealing the portion of the tax
cuts that Congress passed last May that benefits upper-income
taxpayers.

The survey, conducted by pollsters Peter Hart and Bob Teeter, posed
questions to 1,007 adults from Saturday through Monday.

The margin of error was plus or minus 3.1 percent.



The Save Our Bush at Any Cost Brigade is in full swing. Today's WSJ had
an ed page contribution by Flush Limburger attacking Wesley Clark.
Flush, of course, is one of those Republican chickenhawks.

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