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Objection: The President Isn't Relevant

By TChris, Section Other Politics
Posted on Sat May 06, 2006 at 11:19:36 PM EST
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Another poll, another reason for the president to think about spending the summer at his ranch, clearing brush.

"This administration may be over," Lance Tarrance, a chief architect of the Republicans' 1960s and '70s Southern strategy, told a gathering of journalists and political wonks last week. "By and large, if you want to be tough about it, the relevancy of this administration on policy may be over."

A new poll by RT Strategies, the firm headed by Tarrance and Democratic pollster Thomas Riehle, shows that 59 percent of Americans disapprove of Bush's job performance, while 36 percent approve -- a finding in line with other recent polls.

Other fun polling results:

Forty-eight percent of respondents said they would like to see the Democrats back in control of Congress, while 37 percent want Republicans to remain in charge. ...

Thirty percent of those surveyed said they will vote for a candidate for Congress specifically to express opposition to Bush, while 16 percent said they will vote for a candidate to express their support for the president.

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    Objection: The President Isn't Relevant | 3 comments (3 topical)
    Re: Objection: The President Isn't Relevant (none / 0) (#1)
    by joejoejoe on Sat May 06, 2006 at 11:57:27 PM EST
    This is nonsense. Of course the President is relevant. We're about to see the militarization of the CIA and the sabre rattling on Iran may lead to sabres drawn. It's wishful thinking to think this kind of polling wounds the President. Even if Democrats win part of Congress in '06 I'd be shocked if Bush complies with any investigation - setting off a huge Constitutional battle in the Supreme Court. Bush is unpopular, incompetent and wrong - but he's painfully relevant.

    Re: Objection: The President Isn't Relevant (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun May 07, 2006 at 06:26:07 AM EST
    Ol' BushMonkey is in dat briar patch an' he ain't gittin' out. The more the morons on the hill fight and smear each other without addressing the concerns of the average citizen the closer our nation gets to real change. Congress 'worked' 27 days prior to coming back last week... Dat's some 'hard work'... Change will only come when the people demand it and they are doing so now.

    Re: Objection: The President Isn't Relevant (none / 0) (#3)
    by Edger on Mon May 08, 2006 at 06:57:19 AM EST
    joejoojoe: This is nonsense... Of course the President is relevant. I agree. No matter how low the polls numbers go bush and bushco are relevant, if only because they are corrupt without conscience sociopathic manipulators, and being backed against the wall like cornerned rabid animals by these approval ratings makes them that much more dangerous. Karl Rove, as disgusting and seriously damaged human being as he is is still a talented, capable, imaginative, remorseless and extremely potent force to be reckoned with. His one mistake (if it is not a smokescreen or a diversion) may be in broadcasting the general outlines of his strategy for retaining GOP control of the house and senate this year: Rove reaching out to nearly every district to fire up conservative base against charging Democrats
    "The prospect of the administration spending its last two years being grilled by angry Democrats under the heat of partisan klieg lights has added urgency to the efforts by Karl Rove and Bush's political team to hang on to the Republican majorities in Congress," reports the Times. But Rove confidently tells the Times that he isn't worried about the troubles for the Bush Administration that a Democratic majority might bring. "We won't see how that plays out because they're not going to win," Rove said. ... In regular West Wing breakfast sessions catered by the White House mess, Rove and the White House political director, Sara Taylor, have already been reaching out to nervous and vulnerable Republican members of Congress, three at a time, to offer advice or to lay out an emerging, three-prong attack on Democrats over national security, taxes and health care.
    Effective well planned counters need to be developed by democrats to these three prongs, in case they are not diversion. But I would still watch what Rove does, rather than what he says.
    They smile in your face
    All the time they want to take your place
    The back stabbers
    Back stabbers
    ---The O'Jays


    Objection: The President Isn't Relevant | 3 comments (3 topical)