Support for Congress is up

[Rosotar]

It looks like Americans like Congress better when it's doing it's job.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/w...07/04/09/ap_poll_congress_approval_up/?page=1

So much for this argument that "voters didn't vote for defeat in Iraq."

Voters voted for an end to the war in Iraq.

George Bush signed up for defeat when he invaded in the first place.

He alone bears responsibility for any defeat we suffer in pulling our troops out of there.

The voters spoke last fall. Now Dems are trying to do the will of the voters but they are being obstructed at every turn by Republicans.

If this keeps up Republicans will pay dearly in the polls in 08.

 

[red states rule]

It looks like Americans like Congress better when it's doing it's job.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/w...07/04/09/ap_poll_congress_approval_up/?page=1

So much for this argument that "voters didn't vote for defeat in Iraq."

Voters voted for an end to the war in Iraq.

George Bush signed up for defeat when he invaded in the first place.

He alone bears responsibility for any defeat we suffer in pulling our troops out of there.

The voters spoke last fall. Now Dems are trying to do the will of the voters but they are being obstructed at every turn by Republicans.

If this keeps up Republicans will pay dearly in the polls in 08.

Sorry to bust your bubble............

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/archive/?poll_id=18#data

 

[maineman]

Sorry to bust your bubble............

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/archive/?poll_id=18#data

so what the fuck? your poll is right and his is wrong?

sorry to burst YOUR bubble

 

[red states rule]

so what the fuck? your poll is right and his is wrong?

sorry to burst YOUR bubble

So ALL those polls showing your Dem Congress is slipping are wrong?

 

[Rosotar]

Sorry to bust your bubble............

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/archive/?poll_id=18#data

Boy you're just a laugh a minute aren't you?

realclearpolitics.com?

Now there's a reliable source!

 

[red states rule]

Boy you're just a laugh a minute aren't you?

realclearpolitics.com?

Now there's a reliable source!

So two pages of polls is not good enough for you?

 

[maineman]

So two pages of polls is not good enough for you?

he posted a poll...you posted polls...big fucking deal

 

[red states rule]

he posted a poll...you posted polls...big fucking deal

He posted ONE poll

I posted TWO PAGES of polls

It seems the voters are seeing the Dems for what they really are - and the Washington Post is blaming Rush

 

[maineman]

He posted ONE poll

I posted TWO PAGES of polls

It seems the voters are seeing the Dems for what they really are - and the Washington Post is blaming Rush

well... you take that poll and then take the poll from last november...and see which one is worth more.

LOL

 

[red states rule]

well... you take that poll and then take the poll from last november...and see which one is worth more.

LOL

The difference is, Dems are overplaying their hand, and it will only get better just in time for 08

 

[maineman]

The difference is, Dems are overplaying their hand, and it will only get better just in time for 08

hold that thought!

 

[red states rule]

hold that thought!

With Reid and Pelosi now talking about going to chat with Adolf Ahmadinejad the numbers will continue to sinl

 

[Rosotar]

The difference is, Dems are overplaying their hand, and it will only get better just in time for 08

I guess hope springs eternal huh?

How many of your predictions failed last fall?

What makes you think that just wishing something will make it come true?

 

[hjmick]

so what the fuck? your poll is right and his is wrong?

sorry to burst YOUR bubble

No, RSR's poll is right, Rosotar's poll is left.

My advice to anyone inclined to take poll numbers at face value, watch the Penn & Teller: Bullshit episode on statistics and polls.

 

[red states rule]

So LA Times/Bloomberg. and USA/Gallup are right wing polls?

 

[red states rule]

well... you take that poll and then take the poll from last november...and see which one is worth more.

LOL

Speaking of November - looks like the honeymoon is ending for San Fran Nan


The voters are seeing what the Dems are up to, and they are starting to react

BTW, it all the Republicans and Rush Limbaugh's fault



Under near withering assault from Republicans, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has seen her approval rating suffer its first significant drop in her brief tenure wielding the gavel, according to a new independent poll.

While she still remains more popular than President Bush, Pelosi's job approval rating dropped to 46 percent, according to an AP-Ipsos poll conducted in the middle of last week. Her disapproval rating climbed up to 44 percent, which is a sizeable shift from mid-January when the same poll had Pelosi's approval-disapproval rating at 51-35. That mid-January finding held steady in late February, when the Washington Post/ABC News poll showed Pelosi's job performance rated at 50-31 in favor of her.

It's certainly noteworthy that the AP-Ipsos poll was conducted during the peak of attacks against the speaker for leading a congressional delegation to meet with Syrian President Bashar Assad. Those attacks included Vice President Dick Cheney's remarks on the Rush Limbaugh radio show and President Bush's comments during a Rose Garden press conference. And she remains more popular than Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) was when he became speaker, settling in at an unpopular 40-48 rating by late January 1995.

But Pelosi's drop in popularity serves as an early warning for Democrats. In separate interviews last week, a pair of House Democratic leaders circled the wagons around their speaker and vowed a strong defense.

"The Karl Rove machine has continued to try to demonize Nancy, and I think this latest effort will fall flat," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

"I can say unequivocally that we aren't going to let George Bush define our speaker. That is something we will do," said Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the majority whip.

But, with Pelosi's caucus spread across the country for the House's two-week Easter recess, the Democrats have not had a built-in system to defend her. Her defenders have largely been ex-diplomats such as Richard Holbrooke or former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on cable talk shows, as well as a few lawmakers appearing on the Sunday talk shows to discuss other topics. Pelosi and House Foreign Affairs Chairman Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), who was part of the delegation to the Middle East with the speaker, are holding a press conference today to defend the trip, but that's in San Francisco and not likely to generate much attention in Washington.

With the Senate back in session, there still hasn't been a robust defense of the speaker. "I'm glad she went," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told Capitol Briefing after a press conference today on Iraq funding. He declined further comment on the trip, even though he said he'd just concluded a long conversation with Pelosi.

As our friends at Talking Points Memo noted, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) called the Pelosi-led trip the "right thing", but even they conceded this occurred in a "little noticed interview" with a radio station.

Van Hollen and Clyburn gave a road map to how Democrats would defend their speaker, first suggesting that the public wants a different approach on foreign policy. "The American people have run out of patience with the Bush administration when it comes to national security and Iraq," Van Hollen said. "She's on really strong middle ground."

And Clyburn noted that at least three different sets of Republicans had also been to Syria, delivering similar messages to Assad as Pelosi did. "There's something disingenuous about all that," he said of the Bush-Cheney criticism of Pelosi.

Brendan Daly, Pelosi's spokesman, said the speaker's team has been prepared for the attacks. "We know that she's going to be a target," he said. "You've got to fight back."

The new AP-Ipsos poll showed a nine-point rise in public disapproval of Pelosi, from 35 percent to 44 percent. It will be interesting to see where her disapproval rating stands a few weeks from now, and whether this was a temporary spike based largely on the Syria story.

Republicans have been trying for months to turn Pelosi into the Gingrich-style bogeywoman of the left, similar to the way they drove up the negative ratings for Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) when he became Senate majority leader in 2001. Daschle, hailing from a conservative state, lost his seat to Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) in 2004. Pelosi isn't under any of those types of pressures back home in San Francisco. Californians approve of her performance by a 48-27 margin. But the GOP would like nothing better than to turn her into a divisive figure.

"People just aren't listening to them right now," Van Hollen said of her critics. "People have largely tuned them out."

That's a prediction that will take a few months, and a few more independent polls testing Pelosi's popularity, to confirm.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capit...s_first_h.html

 

[maineman]

you like those cut and paste polls, don't you?

I am curious as to when red states rule will EVER unveil his own writing style!

 

[red states rule]

you like those cut and paste polls, don't you?

I am curious as to when red states rule will EVER unveil his own writing style!

is this your way of ignoring facts?

for the last six years libs have loved the polls when they show Pres Bush's approval ratings were down - now when the polls show the Dems are down they seem to be a little distressed

 

[red states rule]

you like those cut and paste polls, don't you?

I am curious as to when red states rule will EVER unveil his own writing style!

What a shocker!

Dems flip flop again.................

Democrats will meet Bush on war funds
By Joseph Curl and S.A. Miller
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Democratic leaders last night accepted President Bush's offer to discuss the war-funding standoff, capitulating to the White House request after a day of alternately snubbing the invite and proposing meetings on their own turf.
"We will be at the White House on Wednesday to talk with the president," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in a joint statement released last night.
"We will listen to his position, but in return we will insist that he listen to concerns of the American people that his policies in Iraq have failed and we need to change course," they said.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Reid balked when the White House announced that the Nevada Democrat had agreed to attend the meeting and discuss the $100 billion war-funding bill that Mr. Bush has vowed to veto.
Reid spokesman Jim Manley had said the Nevada Democrat would rebuff offers to talk until he gets "a signal from the White House that they are prepared to drop their demand that this meeting is a listening session only and this meeting will not include negotiations."
Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, also began the day declining Mr. Bush's invitation -- reiterating the stance the leaders took Tuesday after the White House characterized Congress' role in the meeting as listeners not negotiators.
There was no indication from the White House last night that the president had altered the terms of his invitation.
The White House had said it was "perplexed" by the dispute over the regularly scheduled Wednesday meeting with congressional leaders, which it said would focus on the war-funding bills with veto-provoking timetables to pull out troops from Iraq.
"Our legislative affairs staff was explicit when extending the invitations," White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino told The Washington Times. "The meeting on Wednesday is a meeting to discuss the supplemental."
Yesterday's confusion highlights the difficulty for both the White House and the Democrat-controlled Congress to determine how to resolve their fight over $100 billion in emergency war funding for Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070412-121631-1149r.htm

 

[red states rule]

he posted a poll...you posted polls...big fucking deal

Where are the transcripts?
Gerd Schroeder
Where are the transcripts of the dialogue between House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad? Speaker Pelosi yesterday claimed that she said nothing to contradict the foreign policy of the President, but offers no details. I for one would like to hear the evidence for myself. Especially after hearing a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Tom Lantos, claim last week that they have an "alternative Democratic foreign policy" that is different from the President's. How can both the Speaker and the Chairman both be telling the truth?


If the Democrats in Congress have the right to demand the transcripts of Vice President Cheney's Energy Working Group, then surely we have a moral right to know what was said between the Speaker and President Assad, and judge for ourselves where the truth lies.


It is interesting to note that there is no audio of the meeting that we see looped endlessly on TV. But it is clear through the body language of President Assad that he seems to be clearly lecturing her about something, while she appears to be dimly smiling and nodding. What is the discussion about? Will we ever know?

Conservatives have every right to ask the tough questions and take advantage of the sensitivity that the Speaker clearly has about this her visit.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...anscripts.html