Comments on: Will Anger At Congress Sway Voters?

Public Approval Of Congress Is At Its Lowest Level In More Than A Decade

[j-whitman]

ANGRYliberal,,, Why do you & your people Cut & Run on these posts, when faced with answers that **** you off or don't want to look at & respond to??

[rharrin1]

It already has

[marcelde]

B USH AND R USH BOTH LOVE TO G USH

THEIR NAMES THE SAME
WE SPELL IT %u201CLAME%u201D

THEY PREACH AND SCOLD
THEIR LIES ARE OLD
WE DON%u2019T BELIEVE
ONE THING THEY%u2019VE TOLD

ITS UP TO USH
TO MAKE THEM SHUSH

CAUSE WHAT THEY GUSH
SHOULD MAKE THEM BLUSH

BUT LET%u2019S NOT HUSH
THAT ONE%u2019S A LUSH

THEY%u2019LL MAKE A FUSH
AND TALK PURE MUSH

SO KISH MY TUSH,
PILL POPPIN RUSH!

[pakaal]

clestes, it's easy to get confused. When news agencies say the good news is that the deficit is down, it doesn't really give any historical context (like how well we were doing before Bush came into office).

It's like when Bush says "the war is going well" when what he means is 2 less American soldiers were killed this month as there were killed last month.

[clestes-2009]

You know when someone actually thinks the deficit is the lowest in years, they are beyond hopeless. They are blind, deaf and DUMB.

[pakaal]

angryliberal said: "Fox news gave the election to BUSH...that is hilarious...do you guys on the left really believe this stuff?"

Well, it looks like that's how it works:

"...Estimates imply that Fox News convinced 3 to 8 percent of its audience to shift its voting behavior towards the Republican Party, a sizable media persuasion effect."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/03/AR2006050302299.html

[pakaal]

angryliberal said: "Are they angry because we havent lost the Iraq war yet and that we are winning every day we are there? (That's according to the soldiers who are in Iraq)"

By soldiers, do you mean the generals in Iraq telling us that Iraq is on the edge of civil war? Are you defining "winning" with news stories like the bloodiest month to date for US troops being just last month? NIE estimates of Iraq being a 'cause celebre for terrorists'? Pentagon reports of Iraq being on the edge of "Chaos"?

I think people are angry that it's gotten to the point where the Pentagon is starting up a propaganda offensive to try and trick people into thinking that the best estimates of our intelligence agencies, our generals in Iraq and the Iraqi people (not to mention we Americans) are wrong and that we're actually winning. People are bound to be angry at being lied to - no one likes that.

[pakaal]

angryliberal said: "Are they angry that our deficit is the lowest it has been in years?"

Incorrect. We had a $236 billion surplus from Clinton until 2001, but in five years since then the Bush Administration has taken the surplus and turned it into the largest deficit in US history, currently at somewhere between $300 and $400 billion dollars.

And you know what? With a fair portion of that spent on things like federal mismanagement of disaster relief and an uncalled-for war in Iraq, yeah, I'm angry.

[angryliberal-2009]

continued...

Kerry's mea culpa continues with an attack on the Bush administration:

"It is clear the Republican Party would rather talk about anything but their failed security policy. I don%u2019t want my verbal slip to be a diversion from the real issues. I will continue to fight for a change of course to provide real security for our country, and a winning strategy for our troops."

Kerry's low-key apology stands in sharp contrast to his vocal press conference Tuesday in which he blasted his critics for even implying that his comments were controversial.

Perhaps the apology came after some arm-twisting from members of his own Democratic Party less than one week before the midterm elections. Since the story broke, leading Democrats have been trying to distance themselves from Kerry's comments, including Sen. Hillary Clinton, who called his comments 'inappropriate.'


President George W. Bush, who soundly defeated Kerry in the 2004 presidential election, and many others have demanded an apology from Kerry. Bush called Kerry's comments 'insulting and shameful' to U.S. military veterans and their families.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/11/1/164110.shtml?s=lh

[angryliberal-2009]

Kerry Swallows Hard, Apologizes on Blog

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has flip-flopped again. After adamantly stating that he would "apologize to no one" for his comments about the intelligence of individual members of the U.S. military, Kerry is now saying - or writing - that he is sorry.

In a blog entry that appears at his JohnKerry.com Web site, the junior senator from Massachusetts offers this statement:

"As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: my poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and never intended to refer to any troop.

"I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended."