Further: Bush 43, RCP complete average, all pollsters, 17 January 2006:
Disapprove 58
Approve 40
Margin -18
RealClearPolitics - Election Other - President Bush Job Approval
You can scroll over the interactive graphic.
RCP is a hard right-leaning website.
Bush had a low approval rating the last few years because many on the Right disapproved of his Liberal polices of growing the size of government, increasing debt, increasing entitlements, refusing to seal the borders and interventionist wars.
You know, all the same things that the idiot Obama loves.
Bush even was spouting this AGW scam bullshit.
The Tea Party was started because they figured out that Bush and the mainstream Republicans were just as bad as the Democrats.
Where do you come up with this nonsense? The TEA party was all about protesting taxes increases when they first formed. That had nothing at all to do with Bush.


Sorry to disappoint you but although the Tea Party has been around for awhile the massive modern Tea Party movement was kicked off when the real conservatives in America realized that the Republicans were delivering the same big government as the Democrats. That came in the last couple of years of Bush' Presidency.
While taxes is a part of the platform so are many other things having to do with an out of control Federal government.
Real Conservatives dumped the Republican Party shortly after 2006 and that is the reason Bush had such a low approval rating. The confused Left Wing shitheads never liked Bush (although they should have) and the real Conservatives didn't like him acting like a big government Liberal.
The Left didn't have their heads so far up their asses and so full of hate they would have embraced Bush as one of their own after his record of growing government.