At the end of his fifth year in office has fallen to 43 percent with a disApproval Rating of 55 . The post riding of the findings, president bush had a 47 percent Approval Rating at the end of the fifth year of his presidency , and all other postworld war two president s had Approval Ratings above 50 with the exception of nixon. And the numbers get worse. When asked today trust to do a better job with the nations problems, respondents have the president now tied with Congressional Republicans have 41 . Only one year ago the president had a 15point lead, and now it is gone, all gone. The president also trails republicans on the economy by four points. Last year at this time president obama held an 18point lead on economic issues. The revelations of scandal after scandal, the declarations that have turned out to be lies, and the failed rollout of the president S Health Care law contributed mightily to his nose dive in the polls. Mr. Obama spokesman today admitted that the president s thi
Here is Speaker Boehner earlier today imploring his Senate Colleagues to go to work. While we had a victory today for the American People. And also a victory for common sense. And so our message to the United States senate is simple. The American People do not want government shut down, and they dont want obamacare. [applause] the house has listened to the American People. Now what is time for the United States senate to listen to them as well. Lou and we will be reporting fully on todays developments from washington d. C. Also another terrific driveby shooting in the murder capital of america. Shooters sitting 13 people, including a 3yearold just when it began to look as the chicago violence was declining at least moderately. And more volatile ill weather. The earths strata storm of the year is bearing down now on one of the planets most densely populated areas. Taiwan is bracing tonight for a typhoon land fall, a typhoon that meteorologist say is the equivalent in destructive power o
Here is Speaker Boehner earlier today imploring his Senate Colleagues to go to work. While we had a victory today for the American People. And also a victory for common sense. And so our message to the United States senate is simple. The American People do not want government shut down, and they dont want obamacare. [applause] the house has listened to the American People. Now what is time for the United States senate to listen to them as well. Lou and we will be reporting fully on todays developments from washington d. C. Also another terrific driveby shooting in the murder capital of america. Shooters sitting 13 people, including a 3yearold just when it began to look as the chicago violence was declining at least moderately. And more volatile ill weather. The earths strata storm of the year is bearing down now on one of the planets most densely populated areas. Taiwan is bracing tonight for a typhoon land fall, a typhoon that meteorologist say is the equivalent in destructive power o
Here is Speaker Boehner earlier today imploring his Senate Colleagues to go to work. While we had a victory today for the American People. And also a victory for common sense. And so our message to the United States senate is simple. The American People do not want government shut down, and they dont want obamacare. [applause] the house has listened to the American People. Now what is time for the United States senate to listen to them as well. Lou and we will be reporting fully on todays developments from washington d. C. Also another terrific driveby shooting in the murder capital of america. Shooters sitting 13 people, including a 3yearold just when it began to look as the chicago violence was declining at least moderately. And more volatile ill weather. The earths strata storm of the year is bearing down now on one of the planets most densely populated areas. Taiwan is bracingonight for a typhoon land fall, a typhoon that meteorologist say is the equivalent in destructive power of
Judiciary committee, and we had some very rancorous debate within our own party, behind closed doors, out in the committee room, here on the floor over the patriot act. Over the extension of power under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance courts. I was very concerned, even though we had a republican administration, and president that i liked and respected, george w. Bush, smarter, wittier than people gave him credit for, a good decent man, but we have to consider the possibilities, and we have to be specific in our laws, and when we debated these changes before the Judiciary Committee back in the 109th congress, when i was a freshman, there were people, my democratic friends across the other side of the aisle, that were very concerned about an abuse of power that might be occasioned if we dont tighten up the patriot act. Anal enough, i read the bill as it existed, i read the law as it existed, i was pushing for some things to be changed, and it did cause me of concern that the title