Monday, April 18, 2005
Grim Numbers for Georgie & Co.
The latest Harris Poll® (#28, April 14, 2005) has some bad news for Georgie, his Cabinet, and the Radical Republicans in Congress. Seems most people have a negative view of them. Can't imagine why. Really, because everything from the economy, to the war on terror, to that little adventure in Iraq, to the attempt to destroy Social Security is going just fine. I mean so what if wages have been stagnent, or if health care costs have been soaring, or if Osama is still running around footloose and fancy free, or if there are fewer private sector jobs today than there were in the heady go-go days of 2001, and so what if energy prices are soaring; we have a new bankrupty law and lots of other corporate give aways to be happy about. Of course, these numbers shouldn't worry Georgie. After all, he doesn't read polls, which sounds nice, until you realize that means he and his cabal don't really care what you think. They're serving different masters. They're on some sort of mission. And of course, none of them except for the suckers in Congress have to run for re-election anytime soon. But don't worry, by the time the mid-term elections roll around we'll be back to weekly terror alerts and sightings of Osama (I for one have really missed the weekly updates on the color status of the country--in fact I feel kinda empty inside not knowing what threat level we're at and it makes picking out a shirt and tie combo in the morning all that more difficult without the daily art lesson). Anyway without much more ado, here are the numbers in all their glory.
The latest Harris Poll® (#28, April 14, 2005) has some bad news for Georgie, his Cabinet, and the Radical Republicans in Congress. Seems most people have a negative view of them. Can't imagine why. Really, because everything from the economy, to the war on terror, to that little adventure in Iraq, to the attempt to destroy Social Security is going just fine. I mean so what if wages have been stagnent, or if health care costs have been soaring, or if Osama is still running around footloose and fancy free, or if there are fewer private sector jobs today than there were in the heady go-go days of 2001, and so what if energy prices are soaring; we have a new bankrupty law and lots of other corporate give aways to be happy about. Of course, these numbers shouldn't worry Georgie. After all, he doesn't read polls, which sounds nice, until you realize that means he and his cabal don't really care what you think. They're serving different masters. They're on some sort of mission. And of course, none of them except for the suckers in Congress have to run for re-election anytime soon. But don't worry, by the time the mid-term elections roll around we'll be back to weekly terror alerts and sightings of Osama (I for one have really missed the weekly updates on the color status of the country--in fact I feel kinda empty inside not knowing what threat level we're at and it makes picking out a shirt and tie combo in the morning all that more difficult without the daily art lesson). Anyway without much more ado, here are the numbers in all their glory.
CURRENT RATINGS OF PRESIDENT, SENIOR CABINET MEMBERS AND
PARTIES IN CONGRESS
"How would you rate the job (READ ITEM) are/is doing –
excellent, pretty good, only fair, or poor?"
Excellent | Pretty Good | Only Fair | Poor | Not Sure | Positive* | Negative** | |
% | % | % | % | % | % | % | |
President George W. Bush | 14 | 30 | 27 | 28 | * | 44 | 56 |
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld | 12 | 30 | 29 | 28 | 2 | 42 | 56 |
Vice President Dick Cheney | 10 | 27 | 31 | 29 | 3 | 37 | 60 |
Republicans in Congress | 5 | 31 | 40 | 22 | 3 | 36 | 61 |
*Positive = excellent or pretty good.
**Negative = only fair or poor