Funny, his approval, per the latest poll, is still double the Pelosicrats and has been rising lately. Your link doesn't work, so I am going by Zogby

I'm sorry, was that suppossed to be funny or biting or pithy. If so, a dramatic failure on all fronts. As "Whatever" said above, the Prez's numbers are way better than Pelosi et al. Anyway, this looks like a really pretentious, snobbish very self important blog site and I dont think I'll visit again

Instapundit readers should take note: Comments that do not grapple directly and forthrightly with the proven existence of ghosts will be deleted.

These two comments are high comedy. I love the second one especially, "I will never patronize this establishment again, Good Day!" Kriston are they part of some performance piece?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/

President Bush Job Approval
Approve 32.8%
Disapprove 62.6%
Spread -29.8%

Congressional Job Approval
Approve 24.0%
Disapprove 68.3%
Spread -44.3%

I await the snarkiness about Congress with baited breath.

If you fix the link (americanresearchgroup.com/economy) you'll see the 19% figure is from a sample that is weighted in favor of Dems, 43% to 29%. The natl. avg. is surely closer to 36 and 28 (the 2006 numbers, IIR, from Harris).

This would be sort of like the bias introduced, for example, in a poll that asked visitors to a Haunted House on Halloween if they have ever seen a ghost.

I await the snarkiness about Congress with baited breath.

THEN YOU'LL DIE A SAD DEATH

I fixed the link, at which you will now find that "Among all Americans, 19% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 77% disapprove."

Why is the national average "surely" closer to 43% and 29% for self-declared Dems and Repubs, respectively? The numbers from ARG are not so massively out of step with the 2006 Harris nat'l average you cite and would seem to correspond with national participation in the primaries, to the extent that that can be counted as an indicator. Say that Bush's approval rises a couple percent given some friendly-making tweaking of the national-average proportions—ghosts still win.

Kriston's idiocy exposed to a wider audience for only an hour or so... and s/he's already giving in to the fascistic impulse to delete comments and threaten violence against those who disagree. How terribly liberal!

At this rate you'll end up even less popular than the Democrat-controlled Congress.

Lest you have forgotten, Bush will not be visible in
the voting booth in November. Maybe he is the ghost of elections past?

Democrats... Always fighting the last war.

I think that you'll find that in 2008 George Bush is going to haunt John McCain!

I don't understand why Republicans think that now when the polls show a high disapproval rating for Congress, it is attributable entirely to the Democrats, b/c they are in the majority. I myself would give Congress low approval ratings, but only because there are TOO MANY Republican nimrods still there. You people seem to lack basic reasoning skills.

See? Nice sensible ghost there. I Am a Believer.

Don't let those right-wing zealots mock you or your righteous cause, Kriston! We all know that they are all "little Eichmanns" and deserve death!

I'm glad you are using biased polls to arrive at silly conclusions to make snarky, bigoted, conceited and ill-supported insults.

Have you thought about a career in academia? I'll write you a great recommendation. Let's do lunch.

PS - Good call on deleting comments. I hate dealing with opposing viewpoints too.

TO: Kriston
RE: You....

"....in the basement. Where the ghosts live." -- Kriston

....obviously have NO CLUE as to what you're talking about in this venue.

The ghost(s) in this old house roam anywhere they want. And I'm not alone. Others in this old neighborhood report seeing/encountering ghosts in their houses and on their properties.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[There ARE things that go 'bump in the night'.]

Instalanche!

I always thought ghosts "lived" in the attic, not the basement.

Here is a different poll than yours. Out this week from Reuters.

Approval ratings for Bush climbed to 34 percent from 31 percent last month, and positive ratings for Congress inched up from 14 percent to a still-low 17 percent

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080220/us_nm/usa_poll_dc

I suggest you delete this post before the cognitive dissonance gets too painful.

I suggest I delete your comment before a ghost sucks the warm marrow from your freshly licked-clean bones.

The hilarious thing about all these conservatives (or torture-tarians) whining about the unpopularity of the "Pelosicrats" is that they seem to be totally unaware that when the public is asked which party they trust to run the Congress, they overwhelmingly go for the "Pelosicrats" on every issue from the war to taxes to terrorism to immigration to the economy! So keep bashing Congress and hoping that pays off next November, Instafreaks! I have a feeling we're going to see +20 Dem pickups in the House, and +5 in the Senate!

Here's a poll from earlier this month showing that Bush's approval is even LOWER than that of the Pelosicrats in Congress! OMG CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?

And if Bush is now down to 19% that makes him THE MOST UNPOPULAR PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY!!! INSTAPUNDIT LED ME TO BELIEVE OTHERWISE!!! NO AMOUNT OF HEH AND INDEED CAN SOOTHE MY ANGUISH!!!

Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?
Approve: 33
Disapprove: 65

Do you approve or disapprove of the way the Democrats in Congress are doing their job?

Approve: 39
Disapprove: 54

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_020308.html?sid=ST2008020400314

Eh -

Bush's effectiveness has been proven (i.e. AIDS help for Africa, post 9/11 economy, and killing despots in favor of democracy). History will treat him well. The trouble with the dissonance crowd is they don't comprehend the difference between popularity and effectiveness.

Leadership has never been based on popularity; never will. It would take leadership to address the ills of Social Security, and leadership to combat Islamofascist terrorists in all parts of the globe. You certainly aren't going to get leadership from this Congress.

Carry on ...

I agree that we won't get leadership from this Congress as long as the Senate Republicans are determined to use the filibuster more than in any session in living memory. Also, ABP: check the poll I linked to. It shows the American people trust the Democratic Congress over Republicans on the issue of combating the "Islamofascist" terrorists. Sorry. And if Bush leadership is so "proven," how come he's lost both houses of Congress, is going to be suceeded by a Democrat to the left of where Howard Dean was 4 years ago, and lost two wars?

"Bush's effectiveness has been proven"

This may be the most hilarious thing I've read in the last 3 millenia. He has passed all clinical tests, he's been "proven effective." After I am done laughing, I will now haunt you.

"You have enemies? Good. That means that you stood up for something, sometime"

Winston Churchill

You're right of course. The Dems are going to wipe the floor and picke up 20 seats that you couldn't win, even when the war had only just turned around and Hillary was still calling Patreus a liar for saying what we all know now to have been true. At that time you couldn't pick up those seats. And you think somehow that you are going to pick them up now? I think you should run the HillBilly ticket. Then we can get back those "blue dog" seats. You go ahead and run a polarizing figure like Hillary. I think it would be great. You can cherry-pick your polls too, that way, when you lose, you can scream you have been robbed.

BTW, I kind of like your blog.

Okay, this post has finally proven it for me. The Republicans have lost all touch with reality. Faced with the worst President in history, what do they do? Credit him with defeating AIDS in Africa. America has officially taken flight from all reason, and in killing 100,000 innocents in Iraq, all morality. Truly this must have been a great country once.

"And you think somehow that you are going to pick them up now?"

Yes. The economy is stalling, Iraq is lost, and Old Man McCain's got nothing to offer but more war and handouts to the rich man. And it's rapidly dawning on you that you're running against a Democrat so charismatic he's made Bill Clinton himself look hamfisted and unlikeable by comparison -- a trick none of your policiticans were ever remotely capable of doing, much less John McThuselah, Bob Dole 2.0.

Be sure to send us a postcard from the wilderness, whatever!

"running against a Democrat so charismatic he's made Bill Clinton himself look hamfisted and unlikeable by comparison -- a trick none of your policiticans were ever remotely capable of doing,"

Democrats have got hard-on's for Gore and his powerful Green base, Dean and his passion, Kerry and how his war-hero status made him perfect to win the election, Hillary and her inevitability and now Mr. Obama. I will wait and see how he does after his honeymoon in the public eye is over...

That alliance of the black vote and rich white liberals he wins isn't going to be enough in a general election. The swing votes are Latinos and lower income Whites.

The swing votes are independents, people McCain gave up a long time in a fruitless quest to appease the bloodthirsty torturers on the right. Speaking of whom: have you noticed McCain has failed to get 50% of conservatives in every singly primary he's competed in? But if McThuselah can somehow manage to carry the nativist GOP base and latinos, that will be quite a trick, indeed.

BTW, I kind of like your blog.

Thanks. It is not an undeadly serious political blog. On its better days it aspires to be a blog about art.