As much as this is "good news" for our side, this sentiment won't help us if we can't make it stick to all of Bush's cronies in Congress. Our message from now until election day has to be "Bush's plan is bad for America. Congressman So-and-so supports Bush and his bad plan. Congressman So-and-so is bad for America."

Simply focusing on Bush isn't enough-- we need to make sure that his unfavorable stench spreads to the republicans who are up for re-election this year.

Current polls have Democrats leading Republicans 51% to 32% in the state races when people are asked "Who will you vote for? Democrat or Republican?" We are doing just fine at this stage.

This is what we have been seeing and fighting for a long, long time now. I am glad that some are beginning to realize what is happening, though I doubt that many understand how far down a path we have already gone. It is going to take a long time to recover from some of the things that have been done by the policies of this administration.

And that is where we have to take the discussion, to the policies. Those are the real problem, and they have been put in place by a rubber stamp republican congress. A congress that seems to have forgotten that their place in our country is to be as a help and as a check and balance.

If, and I pray when, we can get control of congress this fall, we can begin to slow the decay and start working our way out of all this mess.

Are we ready to just say noe more?

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! Just remember,Black America figured this out way way before everyone else.2% Approval rating and proud.Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha !

Let's add incest to the Republican irresponsibility and incompetence:

Coast Guard Warned of Port Deal Intel Gaps

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
Tue Feb 28, 4:09 AM ET

WASHINGTON - Republican congressional leaders had hoped to curtail bipartisan outcries over a United Arab Emirates-based company's pending takeover of some U.S. port operations by brokering an agreement for a new investigation of the deal's potential security risks.

Then came the disclosure that the U.S. Coast Guard had raised concerns weeks ago that, because of U.S. intelligence gaps, it could not determine whether the UAE company, DP World, might support terrorist operations.

Bush administration officials say those concerns were addressed and resolved.

In February, the Commerce Committee vetted the appointment of David C. Sanborn of Virginia, a senior DP World executive, to be the new administrator of the Maritime Administration of the Transportation Department.

The White House appointed Sanborn, who worked as DP World's director of operations for Europe and Latin America, to the post Jan. 17, the same day the Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States approved the DP World takeover.

Two Democrats, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Bill Nelson of Florida, have vowed to block Sanborn's nomination unless he testifies again before the Commerce Committee.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060228/ap_on_go_ot/ports_security

Let's hope Kerry and Nelson get the Transportation Securetary under oath, so we can find out who in the White House was behind this trason act. Someone in a high place sold out our domestic national security for a bribe.

The fact that Frist caved in so fast indicates it's a much bigger scam than we all first suspected. Members of this Republican-controlled Congress are also on the take.

How dare they sell "MY governemnt" to the UAE. What is the cost on Cunningham's bribe menu for treason?
R

so we can find out who in the White House was behind this treason act.

That would be BUSH
his family has recieved money from UAE investors

Carlye group also recieved money from the UAE

family history shows a pattern of finacial dealings with the enemy
all the way back to WWII and a certain bank that financed Hitler

Anything to make a buck

Too bad our nation doesn't have new elections when such a low level of "no confidence " like this is recorded. Republicans now represent an extreme minority yet will rule Congress for the rest of this year, and the White House for at least two more years, and perhaps the Supreme Court for decades now.

PROGRESSIVE VALUES

Rove, Cheney, and Bush have handed over to the Democrats a moment that is a political gift from God, one golden moment in which the Democratic sultans at the top could blow away the fog of confusion that exists in the minds of Americans as to just what it is that Democrats stand for.

With Bush at 34 percent, Cheney at 19, and so on, the DNC will never have a better opportunity to boil down its message into points A, B, C, D, and E and lay it before the nation in plain, old-fashioned American candor.

Americans see Democrats as the party of nebulousness, of equivocation, of political cowardice for not standing up to Rove's Orwellian bullcrap. (Kerry's impotence at being swift boated is a case in point). Lieberman's euphoria at supporting everything out of Bush's mouth is another example that puts a person's gag threshold to the test.

By noon tomorrow, the DNC should have TV spots all over the nation saying:

We stand for honest, truth, justice, and the Amerian way.

Bush is a liar, an incompetant lackey to corporate influence.

We will return the government to the people and take it from K Street.

We will get us out of Iraq.

We will secure out borders.

We will rebuild America's infrastructure.

We will put the teeth of fairness in American trade policy.

And so on.

What the DNC and the party poobahs do and say in the next 48 hours will be coldly revealing as to what really lies in the hearts of those at the top of the party.

My friend’s daughter is being deployed to Iraq. This is just terrible and senseless, but it is being replayed all over our country. I am sick about this, because I have no power alone to do anything about it. Together we can make a difference. Now that Bush’s approval rating on the handling of Iraq is only at 30%, we need to push Murtha’s plan:

To immediately redeploy U.S. troops consistent with the safety of U.S. forces.
To create a quick reaction force in the region.
To create an over- the- horizon presence of Marines.
To diplomatically pursue security and stability in Iraq

The people need to “speak up” against continuing this war. It is over. Iraq is close to or in a civil war. A civil war is not our fight. Please write to everyone you can think of and push them to end this madness. We need to bring our troops home before we lose anymore of our true treasure – our men and women.

btw,

I was reading a magazine in the Dentist office yesterday, and there was an article on Cheney's hunting accident. It included a section on "What Do Hunters says about the Accident".
Seems hunters all said the responsibility for shooting one's gun lies SQUARLY on the shooter, not anyone who is with them, and that drinking even ONE beer is a Forbidden taboo. Their drinking is done AFTER the hunt! (And these were guys who voted for Cheney saying this!)

Our message from now until election day has to be 'Bush's plan is bad for America. Congressman So-and-so supports Bush and his bad plan. Congressman So-and-so is bad for America.'

Mugwump, I agree. BUT I think it is equally important for the Dems -- from now until election day -- to get the message out loudly and frequently that voting for Dems in November -- and voting out Republicans -- means restoring checks and balances to government.

More than anything else, I think we need to make sure we are reaching not just our Democratic faithful, but the disenchanted and disillusioned Independents and Moderate Republicans. And the way to do that, I believe, is to make certain they understand that checks and balances in government today simply do not exist.

You want to rein in Bush? Elect a Congress that will actually do it.

You want to stop Congress from looking the other way every time Bush breaks, goes around, or otherwise ignores the law? Elect a Congress that will start scrutinizing his actions, instead of rubber-stamping them.

You want to put an end to cronyism and corruption running rampant in government today, elect a Congress that will actually do something about it.

That's our winning message for 2006!

http://www.amoralamerica.com

Our message from now until election day has to be 'Bush's plan is bad for America. Congressman So-and-so supports Bush and his bad plan. Congressman So-and-so is bad for America.'

Mugwump, I agree. BUT I think it is equally important for the Dems -- from now until election day -- to get the message out loudly and frequently that voting for Dems in November -- and voting out Republicans -- means restoring checks and balances to government.

More than anything else, I think we need to make sure we are reaching not just our Democratic faithful, but the disenchanted and disillusioned Independents and Moderate Republicans. And the way to do that, I believe, is to make certain they understand that checks and balances in government today simply do not exist.

You want to rein in Bush? Elect a Congress that will actually do it.

You want to stop Congress from looking the other way every time Bush breaks, goes around, or otherwise ignores the law? Elect a Congress that will start scrutinizing his actions, instead of rubber-stamping them.

You want to put an end to cronyism and corruption running rampant in government today, elect a Congress that will actually do something about it.

That's our winning message for 2006!

http://www.amoralamerica.com

Expecting an administration made bad decisions in the past to start making good ones is well.. not realistic..

here's one tale of where we are..

Good decisions as we look forward -- not based on the past

We all know that the middle east situation is more unstable than before the Iraq war. We also know that we must look forward. That said, can we trust an administration that has made a series of bad decisions? We need good decisi[III]ons as we go forward. Like it or not the past does count.

One of the problems that the US faces is that we have backed away from the goals/promises made to the Iraqi people. In affect, cutting and running. War is more than a messy business. And the Iraqi's may be willing to forgive the US for the 100,000 or so folks that have died. But that will require that the US keep its original goals. If not, will our troops will not be supported by the current administration. The rubber does meet the road.

This is the only president that is trying his darnest to get only single digit approval.

Bush does not hear the American People.
He is deaf to the Democrats.
Bush cannot hear the Republicans.

I forgot he talks to Rove, Cheney and Libby.

Keep up the good work guys!

I'm still enjoying these low poll ratings.The rabid fake religious right have the NERVE to contest the poll because it's CBS and had more Democrats (HOWEVER) CNN is doing it's own poll to prove that they have no leg to stand on.Bush stinks,period.

At the same time Bush's over all rating of 34% appeared on the polls, the Democrats jumped another 7% which is a big 50%!

If Democrats would get behind Lobbying Reform they would rate through the roof! I have yet to talk to anyone among the common folk, republican or democrat that wouldn't like to have strong regulations on Lobbyyist? They feel that their voice has been silenced and both Party's are just using us!

Did anyone see the scary poll taken of the troops serving in Iraq? 85% of them think the invasion of Iraq was to "punish Sadaam Hussein for instigating the 9-11 attacks!!!!!

It looks we've known all along just how long George W. has gone in leading America into an abyss. How much more does the public need before it just kicks his butt out and tries to do election 2000 all over again?

George W. is the worst thing that has ever happened to America. He's almost outdoing the harm to Americans that the terrorist did on 9/11.

It looks we've known all along just how long George W. has gone in leading America into an abyss. How much more does the public need before it just kicks his butt out and tries to do election 2000 all over again?

George W. is the worst thing that has ever happened to America. He's almost outdoing the harm to Americans that the terrorist did on 9/11.

We all know just how low George W. Bush went in leading America to war. How long will it take for the voter to realize he needs to be stopped? He has almost equalled the harm to Americans that the terrorists realized on 9/11.

I wrote this poem. Please use it in any way that will help people to understand the wrongness of torture and violations of human rights. Please pass it on to others to use.

A Child’s
Pledged of Allegiance to the Flag

When I Was Just a Small Lad
I Looked up So Proud,
I Saw the Stars and Stripes
And I Recited out Loud!

I Pledge Allegiance
My Young Voice Cried,
To the United State of America
And to the Freedom for Which -
So Many Have Died!

I Pledged Allegiance
To the Republic for Which it Stands,
To the One Nation under God
I Folded My Hands!

As I Recited My Pledge
To the Indivisible Country,
I Whispered a Little Prayer
That Really Seemed -
Very Important to Me!

I Was Pledging to a Country
That Promised Liberty and Justice for All,
Not Just for a Few
No ! Really, Really -
They Meant it for All!

So Everyone Can Be Free
We Go to the Polls and Vote,
Everyone Has a Voice
We Proudly Gloat!

No One Is Supposed to Be Left out
We Should All Have a Say,
But I Find That Is Not Always True
I Just Found That out -
Just the Other Day!

I Found That Some of the Meanings
Of the Pledge Have Changed You See,
They No Longer Seem to Mean
The Same Things -
That they First Meant to Me

I Recently Read That an Iraqi
General Had Died,
Around His Face an American Sleeping -
Bag Had Been Tied!

An American Military Officer
Who Also Recited the Pledge Right Along,
Sat on the Generals Chest
Until All of His Air Was Gone!

I Don’t Think it Was
Was the Right Thing for Him to Do.
And I Find Myself Wondering
If He Thought He Was Doing it -
Doing it for Me and for You!

I Wonder Which Clause of the Pledge
He Thought the Generals Death Would Uphold,
Was it an Act under God
Or Was it Liberty and Justice -
For All to Behold!

I Read That Yet More
Of Our Soldiers Across the Sea,
Were Fighting in Afganastan
They Claimed They Were Fighting -
Fighting for You and for Me!

But I Never Recall
Casting a Vote to Tell,
Those Soldiers That They Could Murder
A Prisoner in a Jail Cell!

They Went into His Cell
To Question Him You See,
And While They Were There
They Beat Him -
Unmercifully!

When They Came Back
Some Time Later That Day,
The Found That the Man Was Dead
They Really Felt -
Like They Had Earned Their Pay!

When Their Commander Was Asked
If These Murderers Would Go to Jail,
The Prisoner Could Have Died of Natural Causes
That Was His Tale!

So All of this Makes Me
Makes Me Wonder Some How,
How Did Our Pledge Change
Why Are We the Way -
The Way We Are Now!

Didn’t Enough of Us Go
Go to the Polls and Vote,
Maybe Too Many of Us Just Sat
Just Sat at Home and Gloat!

Or Did We All Decided
That Our Pledge Should Permanently Change,
The Whole Constitution
We Should Conveniently Rearrange!

If We Are Truthfully a Noble Nation
A Nation under God,
Can We Really Give These Murders
An Approving Nod!

If Our Pledge Does Mean
Mean Anything to Us,
Openly These Murders
Our Country Should Discuss!

If We Don’t Believe in Liberty and Justice for All
As the Pledge Does Say,
Then Lets Start Teaching Our Children
The New Words Today!

Liberty and Justice
the New Words Might Be
God Lets Us Kill
If Public Homage -
They Don’t Pay to Me!

I Write this Anonymous Poem
Anonymously You See,
For I Now Fear That My Government
Might Do the Same Thing -
to Me!

The problem that has brought us to this point has been going on for a long time. We have had too many leaders who have behaved as if we were not a democratic society, but a capitalist one. The more they believed this, the worse the outcome, which is why the Reagan, Bush, and Bush administrations were the most oppressive and destructive of all.

Thomas Jefferson, who lived in an era before Karl Marx, did not mention capitalism per se, but he warned us about letting banks control our money supply. What could be more capitalistic than a bank? Capitalism is the enemy of democracy, and its proponents have used it to guarantee the bankrupting of America.

... but I digressed from what was going to be my comment on the subject of the polls: What is sad is not that 66% of the people have no confidence in the "president," but that a full 34% do!