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Old 03-27-2007, 06:25 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Republican right abandoning Bush
I have been saying the conservatives are distancing themselves from Bush.
I think we may have a partisan change in leadership in 2008. Let's hope so!
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45 percent of self-described conservatives disapprove of president

WASHINGTON - Angry conservatives are driving the approval ratings of President Bush and the GOP-led Congress to dismal new lows, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that underscores why Republicans fear an Election Day massacre.

Six months out, the intensity of opposition to Bush and Congress has risen sharply, along with the percentage of Americans who believe the nation is on the wrong track.

The AP-Ipsos poll also suggests that Democratic voters are far more motivated than Republicans. Elections in the middle of a president’s term traditionally favor the party whose core supporters are the most energized
The poll, conducted by the international polling firm Ipsos, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, larger for subgroups.

This week’s survey of 1,000 adults, including 865 registered voters, found:

Just 33 percent of the public approves of Bush’s job performance, the lowest of his presidency. That compares with 36 percent approval in early April. Forty-five percent of self-described conservatives now disapprove of the president.
Just one-fourth of the public approves of the job Congress is doing, a new low in AP-Ipsos polling and down 5 percentage points since last month. A whopping 65 percent of conservatives disapprove of Congress.
A majority of Americans say they want Democrats rather than Republicans to control Congress (51 percent to 34 percent). That’s the largest gap recorded by AP-Ipsos since Bush took office. Even 31 percent of conservatives want Republicans out of power.
The souring of the nation’s mood has accelerated in the past three months, with the percentage of people describing the nation on the wrong track rising 12 points to a new high of 73 percent. Six of 10 conservatives say America is headed in the wrong direction.
GOP analyst cites concerns
Republican strategists said the party stands to lose control of Congress unless the environment changes unexpectedly.

“It’s going to take some events of significance to turn this around,” GOP pollster Whit Ayres said. “I don’t think at this point you can talk your way back from those sorts of ratings.”

He said the party needs concrete progress in Iraq and action in Congress on immigration, lobbying reform and tax cuts.

“Those things would give the country a sense that Washington has heard the people and is responding in a way that will give conservatives a sense that their concerns are being addressed,” Ayres said.

Conservative voters blame the White House and Congress for runaway government spending, illegal immigration and lack of action on social issues such as a constitutional amendment outlawing gay marriage. Those concerns come on top of public worries about Iraq, the economy and gasoline prices.

Candice Strong, a conservative from Cincinnati, said she backed Bush in 2004, “but I don’t agree with the way he’s handling the war and the way he’s handling the economy. I think he should have pulled our troops out of Iraq.”

The poll, conducted by the international polling firm Ipsos, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, larger for subgroups.

This week’s survey of 1,000 adults, including 865 registered voters, found:

Just 33 percent of the public approves of Bush’s job performance, the lowest of his presidency. That compares with 36 percent approval in early April. Forty-five percent of self-described conservatives now disapprove of the president.
Just one-fourth of the public approves of the job Congress is doing, a new low in AP-Ipsos polling and down 5 percentage points since last month. A whopping 65 percent of conservatives disapprove of Congress.
A majority of Americans say they want Democrats rather than Republicans to control Congress (51 percent to 34 percent). That’s the largest gap recorded by AP-Ipsos since Bush took office. Even 31 percent of conservatives want Republicans out of power.
The souring of the nation’s mood has accelerated in the past three months, with the percentage of people describing the nation on the wrong track rising 12 points to a new high of 73 percent. Six of 10 conservatives say America is headed in the wrong direction.
GOP analyst cites concerns
Republican strategists said the party stands to lose control of Congress unless the environment changes unexpectedly.

“It’s going to take some events of significance to turn this around,” GOP pollster Whit Ayres said. “I don’t think at this point you can talk your way back from those sorts of ratings.”

He said the party needs concrete progress in Iraq and action in Congress on immigration, lobbying reform and tax cuts.

“Those things would give the country a sense that Washington has heard the people and is responding in a way that will give conservatives a sense that their concerns are being addressed,” Ayres said.

Conservative voters blame the White House and Congress for runaway government spending, illegal immigration and lack of action on social issues such as a constitutional amendment outlawing gay marriage. Those concerns come on top of public worries about Iraq, the economy and gasoline prices.

Candice Strong, a conservative from Cincinnati, said she backed Bush in 2004, “but I don’t agree with the way he’s handling the war and the way he’s handling the economy. I think he should have pulled our troops out of Iraq.”

What history suggests
As for his overall job performance, history suggests that Bush’s paltry 33 percent spells trouble for Republicans in the fall.

In the past six decades, only one president had a lower job approval rating six months before a midterm election — Richard Nixon in May 1974, the year in which Watergate-scarred Republicans lost 48 seats in the House and four in the Senate.

By November, Nixon was out of a job too, having resigned the presidency in August.

Nearly half of the public strongly disapproves of Bush, a huge jump from his 5 percent strong disapproval rating in 2002. The poll has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

Of all Republicans, nearly 30 percent disapprove of the job Bush is doing, including 13 percent who feel strongly about it.

“Hopefully this is a wakeup call for my party to get out of its bunker and hunker mentality,” said Republican strategist Greg Mueller, whose firm specializes in conservative politics.

That punching bag feeling
He urged his party to start criticizing Democratic positions on the Iraq war, immigration and the economy.

“We’ve been like a punching bag,” Mueller said.

Democrats need to gain 15 seats in the House and six in the Senate for control of Congress, no easy task in an era that favors incumbents.

“What we have to do is earn the public approval of our right to govern again,” said Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean.

The Democratic strategy is to nationalize the elections around a throw-the-bums-out theme.

Republicans counter that they will do better than polls suggest when voters are forced on Election Day to choose between candidates in their particular House and Senate races.

“But,” Ayres said, “we better get in gear.”

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Old 04-09-2007, 07:03 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Bush has never been conservative, despite playing to the radical right religious political party and the conservative political party.

he's a new world order kinda guy..you know, North American Uniion, etc.

What's happened is while the democrats knew this all along, the radical right religious political party and conservative political party are just now figuring it out.
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Bush is going downhill and everyone knows it. It will be a miracle if he even makes it to 2008. He is trying to change america and the world. Next thing you know, he will be making talk like hicks.
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It will be a miracle if he even makes it to 2008.
I don't see any hints that he is fixing to have a mental collapse or anything of that nature... I think he will make it to 2008 just fine.
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I don't see any hints that he is fixing to have a mental collapse or anything of that nature... I think he will make it to 2008 just fine.
I don't think he'll last, the coumtry seems to be turning against him.
46% of america is against the president.

I don't think George Walker "Texas Ranger" Bush will last much longer.
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I don't think he'll last, the coumtry seems to be turning against him.
46% of america is against the president.
Does that mean 54% of the country is for him?
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I forgot to mention that pole wasn't the most recent poll, let me see if i can find a more recent one.
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More recent poll from CNN.com. The country is split right down the middle.
50/50.
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Bush has never been conservative, despite playing to the radical right religious political party and the conservative political party.

he's a new world order kinda guy..you know, North American Uniion, etc.

What's happened is while the democrats knew this all along, the radical right religious political party and conservative political party are just now figuring it out.

No they know!

"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce." ~ James A. Garfield

"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." ~ Amschel Mayer Rothschild - 1838

"We shall have World Government,whether or not we like it.The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent." ~ James Paul Warburg; Foreign Agent of the Rothschild Dynasty,
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For Immediate Relase September 11, 1990

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO THE JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS

United States Capitol Washington, DC


9:09 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Mr. President and Mr. Speaker, and members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, fellow Americans, thank you very much for that warm welcome.

We gather tonight, witness to events in the Persian Gulf as significant as they are tragic. In the early morning hours of August 2nd, following negotiations and promises by Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein not to use force, a powerful Iraqi army invaded its trusting and much weaker neighbor, Kuwait. Within three days, 120,000 Iraqi troops with 850 tanks had poured into Kuwait and moved south to threaten Saudi Arabia. It was then that I decided to check that aggression.

At this moment, our brave servicemen and women stand watch in that distant desert and on distant seas, side by side with the forces of more than 20 other nations. They are some of the finest men and women of the United States of America. And they're doing one terrific job. (Applause.) These valiant Americans were ready at a moment's notice to leave their spouses and their children, to serve on the front line halfway around the world. They remind us who keeps America strong. They do. (Applause.)

In the trying circumstances of the Gulf, the morale of our servicemen and women is excellent. In the face of danger, they're brave, well-trained and dedicated.

A soldier, Private First Class Wade Merritt of Knoxville, Tennessee, now stationed in Saudi Arabia, wrote his parents of his worries, his love of family, and his hope for peace. But Wade also wrote, "I am proud of my country and its firm stance against inhumane aggression. I am proud of my army and its men. I am proud to serve my country." Well, let me just say, Wade, America is proud of you and is grateful to every soldier, sailor, marine and airman serving the cause of peace in the Persian Gulf. (Applause.)

George Bush Speech



Warfare Theology The Coming 4th Reich! Comparing America to Germany of the 1930s

Jeb Bush's Executive Order And 9-11---PART 1
Devvy Kidd -- Jeb Bush's Executive Order and 911, Part 1

PART 2
Devvy Kidd -- Jeb Bush's Executive Order and 911, Part 2

Executive Orders: Jeb Bush Executive Orders, pre-9/11/01

BBC Reported Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell

YouTube - Silverstein Spills The Beans About WTC Building 7

The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." ~ J. Edgar Hoover

"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it." ~ General Douglas Macarthur, 1957


9/11 Security Courtesy of Marvin Bush
9/11 Security Courtesy of Marvin Bush


Marvin Bush - SourceWatch

Marvin Bush - SourceWatch

Marvin Bush: mysterious death - connections to 9/11?
A babysitter for the family of Marvin Bush was found dead Monday night outside the ... Step in Marvin Bush whose company installed the security system.

Marvin Bush: mysterious death - connections to 9/11?

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Rumours of a link between the U.S. first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president.
Holocaust Survivors Sue Bush Family over Nazi Link

Part I
A Nazi in the (pocket) is worth four in the Bush (family)


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Three buildings, all appear to implode, I don't like coincidences! The Reichstag fire was clearly well planned and speedily done.
Reichstag Fire


February 28, 1933
President Hindenburg and Chancellor Hitler invoke Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, which permits the suspension of civil liberties in time of national emergency. This Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and State abrogates the following constitutional protections:

* Free expression of opinion
* Freedom of the press
* Right of assembly and association
* Right to privacy of postal and electronic communications
* Protection against unlawful searches and seizures
* Individual property rights
* States' right of self-government
Sounds like the so called "patriot act"!
EFF: USA PATRIOT Act as Passed by Congress - H.R. 3162 - (Oct. 25, 2001)


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July 25, 2001
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It's been thrown around before!
Kill Americans or Cubans to start war with Cuba!
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There was no legitimate reason not to dismantle the rubble pile carefully, documenting the position of each piece of steel and moving it to a warehouse for further study. No one was thought buried in the pile, since, unlike the Twin Towers, Building 7 had been evacuated hours before the collapse. The pile was so well confined to the building's footprint that the adjacent streets could have been cleared without disturbing it.
WTC7.net the hidden story of Building 7: The Destruction of Building 7's Remains

The official theory is rendered implausible by two major problems. The first is the simple fact that fire has never---prior to or after 9/11---caused steel-frame high-rise buildings to collapse. Defenders of the official story seldom if ever mention this simple fact. Indeed, the supposedly definitive report put out by NIST---the National Institute for Standards and Technology (2005)---even implies that fire-induced collapses of large steel-frame buildings are normal events (Hoffman, 2005).
The Destruction of the World Trade Center:

President Bush says he is keeping Americans in Iraq because it is his calling to bring freedom to the world. Freedom? Destroying American soldiers freedom so that he can spread freedom to Iraq, the Middle East, and beyond. Does that make sense?
America 2006 is Germany 1930

Why War? US May Have Been 'Totally Duped' on Iraqi Weapons Intelligence

US CODE: Title 18,2441. War crimes

Eight United Methodist bishops, other leaders, speak against war with Iraq

George Bush Speech

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The War Prayer, by Mark Twain
"Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it --
For our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimmage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, strain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet!
We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
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The ancient Greeks used to say, "You shall know a man by the friends that he keeps." Given the nature of his friends and advisors, what are we to conclude about George W. Bush:
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To be quite honest Ronald Reagan was a President never appreciated in his time. It was our hindsight that allowed us to realize that Reagan was one of the greatest presidents America has ever had. I truly believe that the same will hold true for Bush. They have many similarities in their ideologies and their actions. I look forward to seeing how the history books spin his presidency after 20 years. I have a feeling many of you will be eating your words.
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