Bush Is Faulted on Economy as Gasoline Prices Rise, Poll Shows

[cal04]

Like most other Indiana residents, Chris Burden voted for George W. Bush twice, mostly because he saw the Texan as someone with values similar to his own.

Now, with his income stagnant and rising fuel prices making it harder to keep his Evansville lawn-care business in the black, Burden has soured on the economy, and the president.

He's not alone. More than six in 10 Americans say the country is on the wrong track, according to a new Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll. More than half disapprove of Bush's handling of the economy, and 36 percent strongly disapprove. Almost half, 48 percent, say his policies have made the economy worse than it was when he became president; 19 percent say it's better.

(snip)
Approval of Bush's performance on the economy breaks along partisan lines, with 73 percent of Republicans giving him a thumbs-up versus 21 percent of Democrats. Only 29 percent of independents say they approve. While almost three-fourths of Republicans say the economy is doing well, most Democrats and independents say it's doing badly.


a lot more
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aHGNJVSiZBVs&refer=

[Erika]

1. You mean gas prices have escalated under W?

Imagine that. A rich oil man has helped his buds.

Does ANYONE think W gives a damn about the working class? He doesn't even talk about them, much less think about them.

Now it's off to Graceland with the Japan big guy.

[DemsRBetterLovers]

50. I quoted it before, I'll do it again...

"High gas prices are a sign of a failed presidency." -Dick Chaney, 1998

[ryanmuegge]

52. I've never seen that one before...

That's good stuff. Of course, you may want to spell his name right.

[Cha]

60. It's dick cheney.

that's the oil baron who quoted that in 1998..

Guess if it were true then it must be more true now.

[shanti]

2. * is faulted on everything

and rightly so....buck fush.

[pfitz59]

3. ".....someone with values similar to his own"

Greed, blood-lust, hypocrisy and scorn? Just which values did Mr Burden identify with?

[Demeter]

13. You Don't Really Want To Know, Friend

because you've already listed them, not to mention arogance, stupidity, and unearned superiority complex.

[PinkyisBlue]

30. Don't forget cowardice, laziness and bigotry.

[mwb970]

40. And incompetence, corruption, and dishonesty. (n/t)

[indypaul]

57. Don't forget AWOL n/t

[Mythsaje]

4. It baffles me that ANY Democrat would give him the "thumbs up."

Just that makes me wonder how accurate this could possibly be.

[ClintonTyree]

7. That's the Joe Lieberman, Zell Miller wing of the Party........

you know, the DINOs. They just LOVE Boosh and the fact that he's keeping us SOOOOO safe from "terrists". :puke:

[depakid]

18. It's just more fiction from the coporate media

They'll write anything these days- accuracy is no longer an issue.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

48. People lie about party affiliations in polls and nobody can verify it.

It would be just like neo-cons to say they are a Democrat and they support the idiot to distort the poll results.

[bluestateguy]

5. Chickens come home to roost, Mr. Burden

Chickens come home to roost, and you are getting what you deserve.

[acmavm]

6. I boggles the mind that these people have nerve enough to bitch

about their boy george. The put all of us in a shithole just because they were delusional.

[Sadie5]

8. Feel sorry for this guy if you want

I don't have a bit of pity for anybody that voted twice for the warmongering frat boy.

[hatrack]

12. The hands blew off my Sympo-Meter long, long ago

The glass cracked, and it fell off the wall amd it's now a jumbled mess of springs and cheap sheet metal on the floor right next to the Give-A-Fuck bin.

[City Lights]

9. Totally agree!

My SIL and her husband visited us recently and all they did was bitch and moan about the chimp. They said he was the worst president ever. We were shocked speechless when they told us they voted for him because they couldn't stand Kerry. :eyes: We ribbed them for their role in giving the worst president ever a second term, and then I tuned out their griping. Sheesh! :mad: :grr:

[catmandu57]

10. It is an ownership society isn't it?

So this fucking idiot* should own his mishandling of our economy. Being poor in this time is a nightmare, everything flows up to the haves and havemores, fuck the little people let them die off and decrease the surplus population. :sarcasm:

[stepnw1f]

11. Hey, Mr. Burden... Don't Judge a Book by it's Cover"

I'm sure you have heard that in Indiana. And oh... your values are no more sacred than the values of folks in metropolitan areas. So the first step is not to fool yourself, that way, guys like Bush can't fool you as well.

[Yavin4]

14. What's Chris Burden So Upset About? Gays Can't Marry Each Other

We're still dying in Iraq. The rich are getting obscenely richer. We're losing our civil liberties every day. He got what he voted for, right? What really has changed from Bush's first term?

[Sapere aude]

17. Like most conservatives, things only matter when it effects them

personally in a negative way.

I'll bet there are less freepers than there were in 2000. They won't admit to being freepers in the past but when they get hurt financially and no one give a shit about them they start to get a clue. I don't recall a freeper feeling good about paying over $3.00 for a gallon oif gas. They just don't talk about it because in their denial world view that could not have happened because of their ideology gone amok.

Harry Truman said this and all freepers should take note, "If you want to live like a republican vote for a Democrat."

[gasperc]

15. we hit $3.10 here in MI yesterday

what's up with the latest gawd damn 40 cent increase?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

19. 4th of July weekend

Big Oil celebrates independence by jacking up the prices.

[The Anti-Neo Con]

20. Or any other holiday for that matter.

We saw a $.30 spike for Mother's Day and Father's Day here! Ridiculous!!!

I'm surprised they don't just make up new holidays in order to raise prices more often.:sarcasm:

[dapper]

I concur...

I went to get gas today and regular was $3.05... I figured it was the gas station so I stopped pumping and drove around... astonished by the around 30 cent increase all around.

My tank is half full... or should that be half empty.

Doesn't it seem like when our fed tax goes down, everything else goes higher?

Dap

[koopie57]

56. a bumper sticker

democrats see the glass as half full, republicans think they own the glass

[dapper]

27. I concur...

I went to get gas today and regular was $3.05... I figured it was the gas station so I stopped pumping and drove around... astonished by the around 30 cent increase all around.

My tank is half full... or should that be half empty.

Doesn't it seem like when our fed tax goes down, everything else goes higher?

Dap

[Tyrone Slothrop]

44. No kidding!

Hallmark and Big Oil ought to get together.

I'm just glad I don't drive anymore! Now I can watch those prices jump without worrying about it too much.

[kurth]

16. But we're at WAR!! We must fight the TERRORISTS!!

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[NYC]

26. That's the future price of gasoline.

$9.11

[flaminbats]

21. but I thought stagflation was Carter's fault!!

gas prices when a Democrat is in office is only a cause of big government, but with Bush in office..it's only the free-market at work! :smoke:

[sueh]

22. Is the cost of gasoline more than his payroll??

[efhmc]

23. Such a minute point at this stage but as a real Texan it is my duty to

tell you that *bush is not a Texan. He is also not a humane person, not a leader, not a business person, not a war veteran, not an oilman, not an intellectual, not a diplomat, not a Christian, not a reformed alcoholic, not a statesman, etc. Mostly the "man" is a negative force. I am sure that Connecticut does not want to claim him either.

[Skittles]

33. NOT A COWBOY

that is one of his more egregious charades

[opihimoimoi]

47. He also is not articulate, he is visionless/myopic, not a reader/thinker,

He is using the CHEERS BAR Approach, hugs, slurring, new strange terms/words, and laughing inappropriately at times...

"Everybody knows your name".....everything is a joke...

[liberaldemocrat7]

24. The REPUBLIKLAN Party will have to call out the propaganda police

for people such as this guy and tell him that do not worry about the gas prices and his stagnant income
but rather worry about the gay married mexicans crossing the border that will affect his life and this
will help him either vote for Bush or stay home.


I saw a t shirt that said


"I voted for Bush twice and the millionaires got a 45,000 dollar tax cut
and with my tax cut I got a tank of gasoline and this lousy t shirt"


Hehe.

[Prophet 451]

25. No sympathy

I could forgive the people who voted for him the first time 'cos everyone's allowed an honest mistake but if you voted for him again after his first term, you get no sympathy from me.

[pamela]

28. MOST Indiana residents did NOT vote for GW...

This sentence drives me nuts- "Like most other Indiana residents, Chris Burden voted for George W. Bush..."

There are over 4,500,000 eligible voters in Indiana and only 1,477,807 voted for Bush in 2004. That's not "most", it's not even a majority. Sorry if this is a little off-topic but it's a pet peeve of mine.

[jdadd]

29. 59.94% Indiana Voted for Bush

Kerry/Edwards (Dem.) 969,011 (39.26)
Badnarik/Campagna (Lib.) 18,058 (0.73)
+Bush/Cheney (Rep.) 1,479,438 (59.94)
Nader/Camejo (w/in Ind.) 1,328 (0.05)
Cobb/LaMarche (w/in Grn.) 102 -
J.J. Kennedy, W.Brown, L.M. Bone (w/ins) 65 -
Total........2,468,002

Total voters voting: 2,512,142
Absentee votes: 260,550

[pamela]

32. So?

My point is that most people in Indiana DID NOT vote for him. The majority of eligible voters in Indiana either voted for someone other than Bush or they didn't vote at all. There are over 4,500,000 eligible voters in Indiana-only about one third of them voted for Bush. That's not "most" of the residents of Indiana, as the writer of the article said, it's not even the majority of the residents of Indiana. Not even close.

[ClintonTyree]

35. Not voting is a vote for the status quo.......

in a way. If people don't vote, then they're NOT "voters", so the majority of Indiana's "voters" DID vote for boosh. The State's electoral votes went into the boosh column. That's all that matters. I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything but if someone doesn't vote how can they be counted as a voter? :shrug:

[pamela]

38. I'm not counting them as voters...

but I am counting them as residents of the state.

I understand what you are saying, and believe me, I'm not defending people who don't vote. I'm just saying that when the media tries to say that most of the people in any area are Bush voters, they are wrong. I'm not trying to be a jerk, either, it's just a pet peeve of mine because I think many of the media types who say these things are doing it on purpose. It feeds into the whole "Bush Country" myth and makes people who didn't vote for Bush feel like they are in the minority. It marginalizes the majority.

Look again at the original sentence that I objected to-"Like most other Indiana residents, Chris Burden voted for George W. Bush twice..." I'm simply saying that that isn't true and it isn't even close to being true. Most residents of Indiana did not vote for Bush. But if you live in Indiana or some other red state or red area, these types of statements feed into the myth that you are one of the few people in that area that didn't vote for Bush. The truth is that even in the reddest of red states, most adults that you might run into on a day to day basis, DIDN'T vote for Bush.

I know it might seem as if I'm just arguing semantics but I really think this stuff is important. It's one reason that Bush voters are so cocky. They think they are a majority and they aren't. Hell, even the majority of eligible voters in Texas didn't vote for Bush.

[SensibleAmerican]

31. If gas prices were low, Bush's approval would be in the 50s or 60s

The Election of 2006 will be won because of frustration at the gas pump.

[pinniped]

34. This dumbass was asleep the first four stolen years.

Thanks for nothing, assclown.

[Dulcinea]

36. It's beyond me why anyone but the wealthy would vote for Bush.

It's beyond me why anyone would vote for Bush at all, but that's another topic for another time.

The only thing Boy George really cares about is tax cuts for himself & for people in his income bracket so none of his inherited wealth has to go to people he no doubt considers "useless eaters"--the poor & sick who had the rotten misfortune to not be born into a wealthy family. People like that should just be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the table, as far as he's concerned, unless they're Terri Schiavo & he can exploit their personal tragedy.

He doesn't give a rat's ass about abortion, gay marriage, or any of the other hot-button social issues the fundies froth at the mouth about. That's just another avenue to exploit. And the fundies haven't figured out that they're being played yet, it seems.

I, ME, MINE. It's like interacting with a toddler. Boy George hasn't progressed mentally past age 4.

[saigon68]

41. It's Gays, God and Guns

Oh and don't forget about those Tramps getting abortions

Some of these Toothless Right Wing racists will vote for the pukes and then come back to their single wides and complain about the "N&^%#*s" on welfare.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

46. Kick

[Lady Effingbroke]

62. In my family, my mother voted for *bush because she identifies with him.

She and * are the same age, and I think she truly identifies with him and Laura and sees in them a better version of her own marriage (yes, I admit she remains clueless about political matters despite attempts by myself and others to enlighten her - I believe the en vogue term is "willfully ignorant"). She, at least, doesn't care as long as she can fill up the SUV and keep on shopping - and I think there remain many people in America like her who are still well enough off financially that the increasingly crappy economy has yet to affect them.

I was at my folks' house about a week ago when Larry King was interviewing Pickles and the Chimp, and my mother displayed a singularly gagoriffic beatifc expression throughout the interview that cannot be done justice with crude emoticons on the innernetz.

I believe that millions of politically intransigent and undiscerning people such as those in my own family voted for * and continue to support him because they absolutely refuse to believe that he is capable of any criminality whatsoever - in other words, corporate media-mindwashed sheeple who have swallowed the official propaganda hook, line, and fishing boat.


It's gonna take a good, hard, hard kick-in-the-ass-brick-upside-the-head-extreme-pain-in-their-own-personal-lives before they wake up and realize that they have been taken.

Because most couldn't give a shit less until, like Mr. Burden, it affects them personally.

That's my 2¢ on the whole mess (which ain't worth a plug nickel), anyways.

[XanaDUer]

37. Best line...

``I had a lot more money in my pocket when Clinton was president,'' said Bill Eastham, 56, an assembly line worker at an Alcoa smelting plant in nearby Newburgh, Indiana. ``I blame everything on Bush; the buck stops there.''

[liberal N proud]

39. On year ago in Cleveland we were paying $1.92/gal

Today $2.99 avg.


Last week I was traveling paying $2.59/gal on average and suddenly there is a Holiday and what do you know the prices shoot up 40 cents / gallon.
But the oil companies are not fixing prices and the bu$h regime says so. BULLSHIT!

[DemsRBetterLovers]

51. $3.42/gal in So. California.

I remember, in 2002, paying $1.01/gal out here in california. I dont remember exactly what happened to cause that, but Arco saved my but a few times getting to school. Now it costs 45 dollars to fill up my mustang.

[Lasher]

42. I like this version better

Latest Polling Shows Bush Losing Core Supporters

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1525477

Direct link to referenced article:

http://www.udargo.com/mub/2006/05/bush_losing_core_supporters.html

[hippiechick]

43. Oh my freakin' Gosh, they end the article with a POSITIVE??

Talk about warping the message !!!
485 wasted words of criticism, because they leave the reader with a final happy face about their careless leader. WTF??

:puke:

[insidious]

45. Fuck Chris Burden

Boo, fucking, who. Maybe this red-head should start making plans to swipe a shopping cart from the local Wal-Mart. He should be able to get through this since I think pork rinds are always on the menu at the local Evansville Klan meetings. He also has the option of hunting down some gay people to rob. Better yet, he can always just pray, I hear that shit really works.

[Demeter]

49. He's Lucky To Still Be In Business At All

Bush has to try harder.

[LibDemAlways]

53. Hey Mr. Burden......"Fool me once,

shame on, shame on me...If fooled...You can't get fooled again." Isn't that the chimp's mangled attempt at a common aphorism? How did an ordinary guy with a lawn-care business get fooled twice?
Maybe you weren't paying attention.

Mr. Burden, it's individuals like yourself who are partly to blame for the mess this country is in.
If your values are like the chimp's, you lie, promote violence, love death and destruction, enrich the wealthy at the expense of the poor and middle class, don't give a rat's ass about the Constitution or rule of law, and flip off those who disagree with you.

I'd be ashamed to admit I even considered voting for someone who can't even complete a coherent sentence and who has to be fed answers through an earpiece during a debate or press conference because he lacks the intelligence and knowledge to formulate a reponse.

And it wouldn't take high gas prices before I'd wake up and realize I'd been duped.

[unda cova brutha]

54. sweet. Something else to help us take back control this november

[yorkiemommie1]

55. There's always the pawn shop alternative....

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gashurt16jul16,0,5275140.story?coll=la-home-headlines

...' A growing number of them are heading to pawnshops, said Mike Robinson, a co-owner of Orange Pawnshop in the city of Orange.

About 10 times a week, a customer says, "I just need money to get gas until I get my paycheck," Robinson said. "It's something that you really didn't hear about before."

Margaret Vieyra, 41, paid a visit to Buena Park Pawn on a recent Friday with her daughter in tow, offering a DVD player for some cash to buy gasoline. Owner Dale Roach rejected it, explaining that only dual players — with DVD and VCR capabilities — have value in his shop these days.

Disappointed, Vieyra took back the DVD player and put five DVD movies on the counter. The transaction left Vieyra only $5 richer....'

I'm sure * would make a tasteless wisecrack about that too!

[freenergy]

58. ONE QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD BE ASKING THIS ADMIN

Dear Mr. President

Can you assure the american people that when they fill up their car with gasoline, they are not not indirectly funding the enemy on the "War on Terror?"

Sincerely,
Concerned Citizen

[Cha]

59. Yeah, time to wake up

and smell the expensive gasoline, dude man burden! I swear you believed those lies comin' from bush's lips and rove's brain..shame on you!

[OneMultnomahDem]

61. He does not lead by polls, unless, of course, they are in his favor

[Barrett808]

63. Here's the Pollkatz graph:

http://www.pollkatz.homestead.com

[HughBeaumont]

64. It's because of dopes like this . ..

. . . that I have not a shred of hope for Americans of his kind.

And the reason is based on the fact that this guy is a two-term President.

Think about that.

He's a two-term president.

George W Bush.

It makes me sick every time I have to type that.

It devalues the office and title to the point where it would take a saint of FDR-caliber to un-sully them.

I believe there was some chicanery involved in BOTH elections to get the Simian in there, but there's always one burning question I have to ask that gets my blood boiling.

After all we knew about this man and after ALL the trouble his administration had caused and lack of ONE thing positive that happened for the middle class during his first term . . . WHY was this election even CLOSE enough to steal? You gotta be one supremely gullible or just flat-out fucking stupid idiot to believe giving this doorknob a second chance would improve things. I can't be nice to people who are experiencing buyers remorse and I don't care if I'm not building bridges.

Anyone who voted for that fucking doorknob even once needs to be booted in the ass and biffed upside the head. I'm not accommodating in this regard.

I mean COME ON PEOPLE!! He's a BUSH. What's the damned mystery here? Did anyone HONESTLY think that under his boot, things would be hunky dory, they'd get a raise, they'd pay less taxes and we'd have peace and prosperity? Shit. He lies, he cheats, he steals, he invades innocent countries, he leaves a trail of shit and failure in his wake and rich people benefit hand over fist all the way. That's what they DO. This is what ALL of their family has done since they were shat onto this Earth by whatever beast bathes in the abyss. They don't share your values and they could give a flying Cleveland FUCK about ANY of you!!!

I call it people sharing the same brain. Bad news, all around.