no credit to bush

he couldn't find his butt with two hands.

Kean runs from Bush

TOM KEAN, New Jersey Senate Candidate: In March, Kean arrived at a reception featuring Dick Cheney only after the vice president had left. Kean blamed Route 1 traffic between Trenton and Newark, prompting questions about whether he was avoiding an unpopular administration figure, not to mention why he didn't take the turnpike. But Kean was early by a couple of hours when Laura Bush visited, whether speeded by the first lady's less prickly profile or the smooth travel afforded by the Garden State Parkway to the Ocean County event. His reward was expected to be about $500,000 for his campaign and state Republicans. (The Record (Bergen County), 6/14/06)

Topinka runs from Bush

Judy Baar Topinka, Illinois Candidate For Governor: One of Topinka's aides recently said to conservative columnist George Will, "We just want him (Bush) to raise money, late at night, at an undisclosed location." (Fox Special Report With Brit Hume, Fox News Network, 7/7/06)

Good one.

A good one. If it were not so sad I would be laughing a whole lot harder.

Charles in NYC

Schwarzenegger runs from Bush

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger distanced himself from President Bush and fellow Republicans in Congress, seeking to avoid harm to his reelection effort from their declining political fortunes. Schwarzenegger challenged Bush on border security and global warming regulations. He publicly threatened to sue the Bush administration over Medicare regulations. He has tacitly sanctioned at least three other state lawsuits against the federal government. He demanded that Bush dispense more money to the state to cover the costs of disasters, immigration and welfare, and chastised Republican efforts in Congress to expand offshore oil drilling. He labeled actions by Bush and Congress as terrible, irresponsible, unacceptable and embarrassing. (Los Angeles Times, 5/19/06)

Drake runs from Bush

CONGRESSWOMAN THELMA DRAKE (VA-2): Congresswoman Thelma Drake, of Norfolk, Virginia, announced she had to remain in Washington for an "important vote'' on a military appropriations bill and miss President Bush's visit to her district. The bill passed by 395 votes to 0. (Daily Telegraph (London), 6/11/06)

Weldon runs from Bush

CONGRESSMAN CURT WELDON, (PA-7): Rep. Curt Weldon, who faces perhaps his toughest challenge since his first election to the House in 1986, chose not to appear at a Bush event in Pennsylvania. He told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that with Bush's poll numbers so low, "there's nothing the president can do to help me." The newspaper quoted Weldon as saying: "I've got to win this by myself." (Philadelphia Inquirer, 5/24/06)

Steele runs from Bush

MICHAEL STEELE, Maryland Candidate For Senate: Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, a Republican who is running for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Paul Sarbanes, told reporters that he would "probably not" want Bush to campaign for him. Steele called party affiliation a "scarlet letter" and "an impediment...a hurdle I have to overcome." Steele also said that the GOP-controlled Congress should "just shut up and get something done. Moreover, Steele said that the Iraq war "didn't work" and "we didn't prepare for the peace," that the response to Hurricane Katrina was "a monumental failure of government," and that "there's a palpable frustration right now in the country." (The Hill, 7/27/06; Capital (Annapolis, MD), 7/26/06)

Polls

I guess polls only count when the only people polled are the people in the studio.

The Media Anticipation Of News: Making It All Sound Conservative

With the growing right wing conservative slant to cable and network news, every issue has to be placed into a conservative frame so the media organizations can stay bias in the Fox news kind of way. The anticipation of news could not be further from the reality of what is happening. Take the current terror plot; as it stands, the British has gotten this kind of bust wrong on two occasion in recent past, so all this hype about how much more effective the British is verses the Americans is just a assumption that fits with the flow of reporting this issue. “Democracy Now” is where I got the source for a lot of interesting facts concerning the British history of prosecution for its terrorist cases. Concerning the current case and actually evidence there was a considerable plot to blow up planes, the British are now complaining the US's attempt to bring this issue to the people early may of hurt their prosecution. MSNBC is reporting the following:

1.There is no liquid evidence.

2.There were no tickets bought.

3.No one had any passports.

4.What seem to an open and shut case is only a rush to give the anticipating media the half truth.

With the current media, you only need half the truth because the slant will work the story to its conservative end result; not much of a conspiracy after all but an effective way to use the media.

I know the end result of this story is that the real truth and facts will probably come out after the November elections unless the Democrats take a risk and step up to the plate and call Mr. Bush on more fear mongering and costing the American public undue financial hardship just to gain political one up man ship.

Joseph [link to readingitreal.blogspot.com]

Bush's 33% to 36%

approval rating, depending on the poll, apparently consists of fundamental Christianists and the media. No one else is on board. Using the Titanic analogy, all the aft bulkheads are flooded, and the bow is exposed.

Even if you believe

that a large group of People polled are impressed with Bush's handling of things, and you're getting all team-spirity about the UK bust, there's a nuts and bolts angle to consider;

If it turns out, as has been reported by some reliable sources and dismissed by Fox & friends,that the US rushed this action on the plot in England, if it turns out that the case is screwed up by not waiting it out for further evidence, will BushCo take resposibility for losing another one.

That's a silly rhetorical question.They're still putting 9/11 on Clinton.

It's far too late to blame Bill Clinton for this latest Bush fiasco.

This one will be Hillery's fault.

Bush's African American Approval Rating

"Two percent. That's the percentage of U.S. blacks who approve of President Bush's job performance, a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found. Blacks' current two percent approval rating of Bush is down from 19 percent a half-year ago. Why is this? Hurricane Katrina and modern communication. Millions of African Americans watched TV coverage of the post-Katrina human suffering, and they are furious about it. The pain of Katrina was borne most heavily by blacks. The mighty Karl Rove can't spin the president out of this. No amount of Rove's strategic and tactical skill can counter the televised imagery of modern-day savagery after Katrina. He and the neo-cons can only hope for a miracle to counter what the world has seen in the hurricane region. Recall the images of elderly blacks in their walkers moving painfully down the road away from their storm-ravaged homes to where? Remember black infants lacking clothing, food, shelter and water in the Big Easy? How about thousands of blacks abandoned to their own devices on the streets of New Orleans? Meanwhile, non-union Wal-Mart Stores Inc. rushed to the rescue of some of these storm victims as Uncle Sam sat on his hands."-Seth Sandronsky, Alternative Press Review 10-15-05

Al Roker looks slightly thinner

Could this mean a boost in Bush's approval rating? Matt Lauer has the story.

Contessa Brewer?

Wasnt she the one that Imus attacked , made fun of and called fat? Tucker Carlson came to her defense and Imus hung up on him?

MSNBC is so disgusting that it allows one of its employees to be ridiculed by a hatemonger like Imus, and that network treats him like he is king.

As far as Bush and approval polls? Who cares, Bushie is gone in 2 years and everyone cant wait. Hoepfully he will not destroy America too much more than he allready has.

this is what the voters have to watch out for.............

and not allow any Bush followers to win in 2008 and bring back to cabinet positions any of these guys ( Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, McCain et al )

Running away from Bush...

Even Bush's dog is running away from him.

Bring back "Fairness Doctrine"

I miss the "Fairness Doctrine". The days when you could "demand equal time"! Until then, a fund to create rebuttal "commercials" on the fly is what we need. Do exactly what the emails from Media Matters do. REBUT the lies and distortions bit do it on the air. Get 'em out as quickly as MM gets out these e-mailings. Which, although I appreciate Media Matters work immensely, are a classic case of preaching to the choir. I am so sick of the distorted "liberal media" I feel like Sally Bowles in "Cabaret" when she lets out that primal scream as the elevated train rattles overhead. AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Sick of it all, Charles in NYC

Take a visit to

[link to www.moveon.org] where donations are being solicited to enable Moveon to continue to do exactly what you suggest here. At that site you will find numerous links to current ads that are being run by them.

This is a little confusing?

I am not sure how this fits into the conspiracy theorists world at all. If Bush somehow "manufactures" these events to boost him in the polls or give him some sort of new political life; then the actual poll numbers, according to the data included in this thread, would refute that?

So why would he bother if it's all moot anyway? Or do they really help him, or don't they? Should he raise the terror level, or not?

Whew, it's hard to keep all this straight???

President Bush is trying, but failing.

Politicians frequently try to manipulate their perceived image. Not all are successful as it appears to be the case these days for our hapless leader.

President Bush built up a house of cards that has since crumbled around him. He is no longer credible to anyone, but a few apparent dead-enders.

There is a price for being so brazenly deceptive. Bush is now paying it.

It's not Bush

As much as it's the media at large heaping credit on Bush's back for a sting operation in the UK, as if W himself led the incursion team into the hideout. The media should be asking: why are there so many MORE terrorist attacks NOW than BEFORE the Iraq War? Why is the world less safe, when the ostensible reason for Iraq was to make the world safer? If not for the lack of critical journalism, the kind that used to exist once upon another presidency, Bush’s poll numbers would be in the TEENS.

Bush is like a student surrounded by doting parents and family members trying to convince the teacher that there’s a good reason for his F, so the teacher caves and gives him a D. Then the family smiles and says in concert, “See, he’s doing a heckuva job, ain’t he?”

Okay, so he got

a bump in one poll. Rove undoubtedly is grateful for small favors in view of the superb sequence of posts by Heru. Can you imagine how his ratings would have plummeted overall if Rovites in the media hadn't been flooding the air waves with "they are weak, we are strong, yet, Jesus loves me" terror messages. So, to answer your question with what seems a common sense conclusion (I have no evidence to back it up), sure they're going to continue to publicize their distorted version of every incident that can be labeled "terror-related," and whomp up the colors on the alert system to try to keep the minuscule numbers on board that are actually affected by such.

Poor Karl. Any minute I expect his spinning head to start projective vomiting pea soup as the exorcism of incompetency moves toward its inevitable conclusion.

And Fred Barnes runs to Bush............

and kisses his feet, like a good obedient dog would.

Contessa Brewer

It should come as no surprise, because Contessa Brewer is just to the right of Atilla the Hun. She's Bush's lapdog and has been since she's been on the air...

I rolled on the floor laughing when............

Contessa Brewer had a gas ball on air, and said she didn't do it, I am sure in the middle of a Bush love fest. This happened a few months ago.