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Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported President Bush’s newest domestic accomplishment -- he’s broken through the psychologically significant threshold of 30 percent approval rating!
According to the WSJ/Harris Poll, Bush’s approval rating has plunged from 43% in January, through 35% in April to 29% -- just 29% think Bush is doing an “excellent or pretty good” job!
The rest, a whopping 71%, say Bush is doing a “fair or poor” job.
Earlier in the week, Bush blamed the media for his barely 30+ percent approval in the USAT/Gallup and NYT/CBS News polls. He contended the media’s force-feeding of bad news to Americans had induced a nationwide pessimism he called “battle fatigue”.
I believe the results of the polls represent something else entirely -- Bush fatigue! 
It seems like every day there’s some new evidence that Bush’s priorities are out of sync with the American people, whether it’s the quagmire of the Iraq War, the Constitution, gas prices, spying on American citizens 24/7, cronyism vs. competency, you name it!
Another round of tax cuts for the wealthy may be a new spur to Bush’s decline. As AZ Moderate demonstrates, it slams Middle Class citizens and the Working Poor hard.
It’s difficult to believe that folks with incomes over a million bucks are struggling to fill their Hummer tanks these days, but BAA Boy - the Average American - argues they need a rebate at least 41 times greater than those whose pocketbooks are hardest hit at the pump. Go figure.
Perhaps Bob can help BAA understand the relationship of progressive taxation to classic Utility Theory and why preferential treatment of the rich is actually a backdoor hedge against higher interest rates.
I’ll point out that it’s probably an effective fundraising tactic, but it produces more POed voters than Republican contributors. Ergo, the tax cuts are consistent with not caring -- about the polls or the common taxpayer.
Rove and Company’s campaign strategy reflects that not caring mindset, big time! Libby Dole’s scare letter to the GOP faithful is now the official gameplan. Republicans, so frightened of running on their record, will emphatically focus on all the dastardly deeds we may expect when the Democrats take over the House and Senate.
Red hot Nancy Pelosi choked off the biggest Republican rallying cry by vowing “that impeachment is off the table”! “…not interested in pursuing it,” she said. Wooo-eee! Even the writers of The West Wing would reject that plot as “just too incredible”.
John Conyers hasn’t yet weighed in on that one.
A new facet of the Republican campaign to deflect any reference to their record is to run in their only remaining crowd-pleaser -- the First Lady.
Laura, who once insisted that she would never give a political speech, has hit the campaign trail in the battleground states, including Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Ohio, where the Democrats aim to win enough seats to regain control of the House. At a recent dinner for donors in Columbus, Ohio, Laura steered clear of any and all controversial issues, focusing instead on literacy, anti-gang initiatives and refurbishing schools devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Laura glowingly described the local congresswoman, Deborah Pryce, as a "role model for what women can do in public service". Pretty good, eh? Republican feminism and accountability all in one sentance?
By the time diners had finished their tomato and basil soup and chicken satay, Mrs Pryce's campaign coffers were $250,000 the richer.
Wonder how much of that came from the fatcat tax cuts? Are there few Ohio millionaires? Are Ohio millionaires just stingy? Or, do they see better investments that the GOP?
How much taxes does a person pay making $30,000.00 per year. Just what do you intent to cut. Or would you rather I take one under my wing and just give for the sake of giving.
Everytime I get a tax cut, I increase my investing by that amount. I but more things, putting more money back in play, I invest in more stocks, thus giving those companies more operating capital to expand and higer more people.
I but more gas guzzling SUV'sand pay more money to the Oil comapnies so their stock will go up and help those living off of the investments they have made in those companies, you know, the pension plans and such.
Sorry Akman but your arguement about what we do with our money and our tax cuts just doesn't hold water.
Class envy is not the way you should look at this. You should see the good in it. Back when I was making $25,000.00 per year I paid $0.00 in taxes because of the earned income credit, everytime their was a tax cut I got mad because I could not benefit from it, but I did, I found better jobs becasue the "RICH" had more money to expand and pay me more for what talents I had. Today I do the same thing.
Stop promoting a system that punishes achievement.
I'm no millionaire, yet. But the money I get to keep I put back in pley. When the governemnt gets it they waste it on social programs that do little to improve ones life.
In America there is no promise of equality of prosperity, only a promise of equality of opportunity. Use yours and stop crying about what you don't see as fair. It is fair.
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