Poll Crunch for end of June 2005

Well here we go again....

The big P's approval vs disapproval ratings are as follows:

Approval: 45%
Disapproval: 50%
Duh I'duno: 5%

Even the FOX/News Poll only gives him a 48% approval rating. But on that same poll 43% disaprove. So the conservatives can spin it that he is more approved of than disapproved of; at least by FOX/News viewers. However another telling number is that 9% of FOX viewers expressed uncertainty whether Bush is doing a good job.

He is going to give us a pep-talk on Thursday. The problems that face our nation right now have little to do with social security or stem cell bans. Gas prices are soaring. GI's keep getting blown to bits. China wants to buy Unical oil. Our actions in Iraq seemed to have helped get a religious hardliner elected President of Iran. And did I mention gas prices? Bush and his supporters do not seem to get it.

There are big time issues that need addressing and going on TV and saying that he feels pain when our men die, but we need to stay the course, isn't going to fly in the long run. Furthermore envoking 911 is also beginning to where pretty thin. I will make a prediction. Bush will say all of the above, and spell out all the obviouis reasons for not having a timetable. I actually agree with him on that point. He will say that we need to stay to justify all the blood and misery suffered by our guys and the Iraqi people. Clearly his team feels it is vital that he show himself. He will get a bounce in the polls after Thursday. Unfortunately Bush is not in charge in Iraq. The insurgents are in charge. We are on the defensive and because of the dogmatic crew in command of our forces we are blind to what might happen.

Other numbers that are really begining to have an impact on the President and his supporters are:

1,742
13,074
26,000

It is difficult to spin 1700+ dead bodies into anything amounting to political capital for the President. The other huge problem that will keep the President in the dumps, is that 260 thousand families have men and women either in Iraq or in the states getting ready to rotate back in. There are 13+ thousand families all across America dealing with shot up kids in coma's, wheelchairs, with no legs, and or arms. Thenb there are another 12 thousand that were treated for non-copmbat illness and injuries, not to mention al lthe others that have the ordeal of having to detox from frontline combat duty.

All of the above Amemrica would tolerate if there had been a reason for so much destruction. Yet there are no tangible reasons. Iraqi freedom? Americans are too damn pragmatic for such nonsense. It's not that we wish them ill or back in a dictatorship, it is just that we have trouble letting 1700 men die for it. Especially when there is no evidence that Iraq posed any threat to us at all.

I won't bother with gas prices, the falling dollar, the gigantic budget problem, or the continued dribbling away of good jobs. 2nd terms are a bitch.