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Poll shows declining confidence in Bush

The Associated Press's periodic poll of the President's approval rating shows that 54 percent of Americans disapprove of George Bush's performance in office, while 45 percent think torture and lying about social security totally rocks.

Americans between the ages of 30 and 50 were about evenly split on Bush's job performance, while the greatest decline in confidence in Bush comes from those 50 and over, according to the AP. Republicans, as usual, give him high approval, Democrats low.

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11.2.05 04:23

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(12.2.05 00:20)
What do they think about his budget? It's giving me the heebie-jeebies.

(12.2.05 04:03)
Extreme right wing Republicans think that the less government resources go to the poor, the less poverty we will have. Their strategy has been, for the last 30 years, to run up enormous deficits so as to force deep cuts in social spending. Conservatives call that "starving the beast."
That's pretty much what's happening.

(12.2.05 06:42)
Deficits must be Bush-ian, then, not 'conservative'. Conservative (small-c) parties tend to starve social programmes to pay off deficits. Isolationist, left-wing and/or short-term parties tend to love deficits. I note that Bush didn't approve this sort of budget when he needed to worry about re-election.

(12.2.05 15:38)
Ronald Reagan ran up huge deficits in the 80s, mostly related to defense spending. George HW Bush repressed spending during his one term as Prez, and openly groused about having "more will than wallet." Clinton actually balanced the budget, and left office with a paper surplus.