Bush bottoms out... again

Ever notice how pundits are in the habit of suggesting that Bush has "bottomed out" or "hit bottom" in polls? Observe (approval ratings are rough estimates based on a ?CLICK">Pollkatz chart):

I do not think it means what they think it means.

We've finally turned a corner in Iraq, things will be all rosy from now on.

Jesus, we've turned so many bloody corners I'm getting dizzy here.

Bushwhacked is a total bottom...Jeff Gannon and Scotty have now been out-bottomed by their ex-boss...what's a bottom to do? Scream & screw?

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Nice one! ;)

My first thought was Oy Vey! :evilgrin:

;)

that to truly bottom out would be to have a ZERO percent approval rating. And frankly, I'm looking forward to it! :)

what with the margin of error and all....:evilgrin:

Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam.

have been for us collectively. Just when you think we can sink no lower . . .surprise !!! It gets worse.

It's as though these pundits are doing chicken little impersonations or somethin'.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

in these polls and test them for Mad Cow disease, because we may have stumbled on a cluster.

of BOTTOMING OUT/ TURNING THE CORNER/ STAYING THE COURSE/ What a wonderful man he is. He can LIE, Steal Invade a country, apoint convicted criminals, PLAY STUPID when confronted with facts of Fraud, trash the constitution, supply leaks, punish leakers.
THIS IS without a doubt the worst presidential imposter ever.
Whe this BADMINISTRATION is finally over the rest of the LIES will be exposed leaving no doubt we have been USED SOLDOUT and HOODWINKED for the greater profit of the rich and powerful aristocracy.

He's hit rock bottom and is starting to dig.

I think president Happicrack needs some new shocks and struts.

But that's just me.

Where i is the imaginary number. Zero percent of reality based people approve him, 32% of the people who live in fantary land do.

and we just turned the corner in Iraq.

It's like the old excuse you give your boss for missing work:

"My mother died..............again." ;)

Bush proves that the repubs were correct in their position that they needed to steal the elections. I wonder if we have actually dropped past the number who really voted for him.

I wonder if those who acted illegally to get Bush in the White House accept any responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

than any person on earth!

that there is not a single pundit who has a real understanding of polling numbers and what they mean in the way of political blocs and demographics. They all call up the same tiny handful of Beltway consultants- well, Sabato, and maybe Cook- and ask them what the numbers mean. All the time. It's pathetic.

And if they had any mathematical ability to speak of, they'd see the fairly obvious baseline trend in the Bush job approval rating: 1% of the electorate gives up their remaining serious faith in the man and the policies and the Party that create this misere each month. (Though it takes particular events to drive away the last support, benefit of the doubt, in particular categories.)

As for the "bottoming out" bit, RNC people floated that last year iirc when trying to play down the hit they took due to the Schiavo business. It's been a life boat PR concept among conservative-biased pundits and consultants. A pity party concept, really.

The reason it gets dwelt upon and believed in is that no one in the Beltway and their major media buddies wants to believe the country is really changing. I'm starting to hear them openly ask and tell (well, assert to) each other on the talk shows "but this is still a center-right country, politically" increasingly often. It's autosuggestion, a Coueism, wish and disconnection from reality. They truly just can't imagine the political center expending its conservative bias, swinging neutral now and biasing left in the next few years. They prefer to assume that the center will always be Right-leaning, that the convention that came to be during the late LBJ and early Nixon years will last their whole lifetimes.

Do you use Lexis/Nexis?

I imagine Lexis/Nexis would return an even more impressive set of results.

that the stock market had peaked at 5K under Clinton.

Then 6K.

Then 7K.

Then 8K.

Then 9K.

Then 10K.

Then 11K.

Then it was Bush . . .

with actual fact. It wasn't that long ago that they finally quit telling us what a popular president Bush is. Sometimes the truth is a little hard to absorb.

he'll hit the bottom of the bottom?

The bottom of the bottomless pit? But since it's bottomless, they can't say that he hit bottom anymore.

Give him a little more time, and he might end up with a "minus" positive approval rating, something most mathematicians previously thought impossible to accomplish!

Somewhere in late 2007: "Well folks, George Bush's approval rating has just dipped once again. His positive approval rating now stands at minus 14, down 4 points from last weeks rating of minus 10. This is Katie Couric, reporting to you from CBS Evening News. Good night"

And about that 30% to 35% that keep supporting him, I think there should be a corresponding poll that shows what percentage of the population are literally hit by dumb sticks on a daily basis. I think roughly one third of Americans would have the bruises on their brains to prove they have indeed been hit.

65% of the population now believe that the president is doing a poor or terrible job? *sigh* Liberal media, my ass.

He's* still 29% before he* becomes a complete ass, right now he's* 21% over half assed. ;)

so when he finally bottoms out fer good does he get a sponsor and attend ninety meetings in ninety days?

For that 29% to have a serious intervention!

They keep HOPING it's true, he's bottomed out, because they don't want his numbers to go even lower...they want Repukes to stay in power. They keep using the mantra, hoping that, by repeating it enough, they will make it true.

I'm very familiar with this kind of mindset. From personal experience.

I'm a transsexual. for a long time I tried to deny what I was, repeating the mantra, "I'm just a heterosexual crossdresser" hoping that, by repeating it enough, I would make it true...or at least make myself believe it.

But I knew better. And finally came to terms with what I truly was.

This is another example of "repeating the mantra" hoping that, by repeating it enough, you make it true...or at least make yourself, and everyone else BELIEVE that it's true...that Bush has bottomed out. they want to believe that. They have to believe it. Their interests depend on it. and they are scared...they are very scared.

...a daily repetition of the results of bad decisions and incompetence in high places, coupled with a heavy dose of corruption. All predictable BTW.

We hope

for the last year and a half. We have also had at least a half a dozen "turning points" in the "democratization" of Iraq in the last two years.

:wtf:

toilet but he needs to be Flushed!

That would make a nice T-shirt.

Maybe when pundits speak of Bush "hitting bottom", they're actually referring to Jeff Gannon's activities in his unexplained over-nighters at the White House?

we've been hearing about week after week for the last 3 years.

How many U-turns have me made so far, do you think.

The light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.

I hope this does not come to pass.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/010606iranstrike.htm

Tea Bags..(Without Tea....we'd all end up as "McStarbucks!" :scared:

(please not this is not a trash of Skinner or a "pump up of you" just because you had a "Honeymoon" and that we always miss "Earl G.."

BTW, I hope that Honeymoon was AMAZING!!! mine was and I've only been married once and we had a "Nightmare Honeymoon" (logistically and foodwise but we were TOGETHER!!!)

Anyway...we might be entering the "Malaise" phase.....we will all pull out.. :D It's all we can do ....is hope to "hang in"...with a maybe "margin" that will pull us a little forward.

;)

bottomless pit, the abyss, the darkside

okay, that was tacky

manipulating the polling - as approval of him REALLY can't be as high as 39%... I live in a red county in a blue state - there are Bushies here but they are mostly silent... it's become a rare thing to see a Bush bumper sticker anymore or to hear anyone defend him or even mention his name in a mixed company.

Thanks EarlG for a great post. I look forward to seeing reports of * continuing to bottom out!

After being proven wrong I won't even guess now.

At this point even the backwash Republicans are changing the subject when politics comes up.