This item is on the Washington Post's White House blog:
Everything you need to know about today's hastily scheduled press conference was telegraphed by John Whitesides of Reuters: "Deepening unhappiness with President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress soured the mood of Americans and sent Bush's approval rating to another record low this month, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. . . .
"Bush's job approval rating fell to 24 percent from last month's record low for a Zogby poll of 29 percent. A paltry 11 percent gave Congress a positive grade, tying last month's record low."
"There is a real question among Americans now about how relevant this government is to them," pollster John Zogby told Whitesides. "They tell us they want action on health care, education, the war and immigration, but they don't believe they are going to get it."
Bush has now tied President Nixon's all-time low approval rating as measured by the Gallup Poll.
The pollsters and the GOP 'numbers guys' in DC will continue to try to create some positive spin on the decaying poll results. An impossible task which will only be remedied on January 20, 2009 when these immortal words will be spoken by a democrat:
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States , and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
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