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Bush Polls at all time low on Libby/Iraq woes
The double-blow of the 7500 Americans killed in the Iraqi war (not the 2000 killed in Iraq!) and the Libby intelligence hearings brings bush's approval ratings to an all-time low. Too bad everyone caught on late. NOW what are we gonna do?
Source: newsday.com, 2005-11-05
Candidate: Republican Party
Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby pleaded not guilty to perjury charges yesterday, while new polls showed how his indictment in the CIA leak case helped push President George W. Bush's standing with the American public to its lowest point ever.
For the first time, in one survey, fewer than half of all Americans believe Bush is honest and trustworthy, or that he is a strong leader - a severe blow to his political strength.
Libby, 55, made his first court appearance on five counts of lying to federal investigators and a grand jury over how he learned the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. The former vice presidential chief of staff, who resigned the day the indictment was announced, hobbled to the microphone without his crutches for a foot injury to tell U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, "With respect, your honor, I plead not guilty."
Libby also introduced a new defense team many lawyers said was built to take the case to trial. Such proceedings could force Vice President Dick Cheney to testify and make life uncomfortable for several high-profile reporters who reluctantly testified before a grand jury.
In pleading not guilty, Libby "has declared that he intends to fight the charges ... [and] wants to clear his good name," said defense lawyer Theodore Wells, who secured acquittals in two previous cases involving federal officials, former agriculture secretary Mike Espy and labor secretary Raymond Donovan.
Wells' co-counsel, William Jeffress, also said First Amendment issues could complicate the case, a comment legal experts said may signal a defense strategy to pressure reporters into revealing so much about their interactions with the White House that they would try to avoid testifying at all.
Robert Bennett, the lawyer for The New York Times' Judith Miller, said he's not concerned. "Judge Walton is not going to let them move too far afield," he said in an interview.
Bush's political problems don't end with Libby. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has said he is still investigating Bush political adviser Karl Rove.
Fitzgerald was checking key parts of Rove's story - that he simply forgot to tell the grand jury about a phone call in which he discussed Plame - as late as Oct. 25, three days before Libby was indicted. A prosecutor spoke to former White House press aide Adam Levine about a conversation Levine had with Rove shortly after Rove hung up from Time reporter Matt Cooper, Levine's lawyer Daniel French said yesterday.
In the Rove-Levine conversation, Cooper was not mentioned, French said. Even if that tended to support Rove's version of an easily forgotten phone call, "I don't think that could be all they were looking at" to check Rove's account, French said of prosecutors.
Meanwhile, some senior Republicans are pressing Bush to fire Rove even if he is not indicted, but White House insiders insist no such move is in the offing. Nearly 60 percent in the ABC News/Washington Post poll say Rove should resign.
After the worst week of his presidency - the 2,000-casualty mark in Iraq, the withdrawal of a Supreme Court nominee and Libby's indictment - the new polls quantify just how deep Bush's trouble is.
The ABC/Post poll has Bush with a personal-low approval rating of 39 percent, meaning six in 10 disapprove of the job he's doing, numbers that mirror those faced by Bush's father before a recession caused him to lose the 1992 election.
Just 40 percent call Bush honest and trustworthy, and fewer than half call him a strong leader, this poll found. On the Iraq war, 55 percent say Bush intentionally misled the public, and 60 percent say the war wasn't worth fighting, both new highs.
An AP-Ipsos poll had similar findings: a personal low approval rating of 37 percent. The intensity of the disapproval is the strongest to date, with 42 percent saying they "strongly disapprove" of Bush's job performance, twice as many as the 20 percent who "strongly approve."
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User Originated Comments:
From: Robbie
2005-11-22 00:00:00
to "it is the
angels":
clarify.
god will wipe
away the wicked and defend the
righteous.
will he repay the
bloodthirsty? will he wait too long? his arms
are not short, his ears not deaf. he waits for
his people to repent and call on him.
call on him in spirit and truth - to
repent ourselves our own wickedness.
From: It is the angels that are on our side
2005-11-15 00:00:00
soon the angels of the euphrates and tigris will
be released separating the wheat from the
tares...
it is not about what country we
are in, the entire world belongs to the one and
true god above, the way america is, the majority
of the people have not only forgot the names of
the angels that work for the supreme, but fail to
call on them. for they are here for us. the true
followers of the true faith. it has nothing to do
with what church you attend, but what is found in
your heart... it is the american way that has
destroyed this truth...
now every church
is just looking for new converts thinking that
they do right...
the truth is, the wicked
will be wiped away either by repentance, or by
pain of death. you choose.
the ancient
of days will hand over the world to the rightful
heir, who will, then in turn, govern the lands as
he sees fit.
so, if you know nothing,
hold your tongue. lest ye lead the people astray.
From: Linda
2005-11-13 00:00:00
the hypocrisy of the "american way of life" is
exposed.
"we hold these things to be self
evident, that all men are created equal. that we
are endowed by their creator with unalienable
rights, that among them are life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness."
apparently not.
the post 9/11 america would have americans only
created ... not equally, but better than others.
that americans have a right to life, liberty etc,
and only white americans at that.
the
words of our constitution are noble. hard to
wholly embrace, harder still to adhere to. but, if
the world is to see a time of peace, we must
try.
giving in to or lesser angels is not
only foolish. it is un-american.
hang in
there. we must and will prevail.
From: This is what you have to think about
2005-11-10 00:00:00
right now the only people that can fight a battle
with the president are those who know the
loop-holes in the law. too many are afraid to do
it this way because the law has already been set
to defend the "commander in chief". you should be
aware that it is not the president who makes the
decisions in this country, it is the politicians
who argue at the round table.
you must
also be aware that any one found telling the truth
about this fact is found guilty of treason. there
is no telling how many people have disapeared at
finding out the truth. you are sworn to secrecy
upon reaching the gates of political reign.
they call us the united states, but are
the states really united?
bush and
every other president does not know what is going
on in every state or every city, the elected
officials could be as corrupt as anyone person can
be, and the president who should be in charge over
all the states would not even know about
it.
in the case of katrina, the reason
why those police officers killed themselves was
not because of stress, well, not due to tiredness,
but due to the possibility of being found out
because of the corruption on a state/city level.
houston is not much different, there is corruption
at all points of the city/state
structure.
once people get a hold of
power, that is all that is on their mind, in order
to get our votes, they can tell us what we want to
hear, but once in office, why does everything
remain the same?
i have seen no
improvements in our city, just elected officials
who want to make millions of dollars. people are
still on the streets begging for money, and they
are just creating jails to put them in. the city
makes money off of those in jail and watches the
people at the bottom of the barrel decay. for it
is said that those that fall by the wayside are
the scum of the earth. this is hypocrosy and
heresy.
to watch the humble in spirit
decay and die on the streets, where the only thing
left to run to to make an honest buck is
beg.
these people ought to be ashamed,
yet nothing improves.
you can say "no
more taxes", or "better education", yet i see all
corrupt, taking advantage of the poor and
destitute.
a bunch of salesmen at the
head of the game is all i see, and all you are
selling is death and destruction for the
honest.
i shall not be caught up in this,
i will fight, and i will win as the angels stand
at my side, i shall call upon the true name of the
lord, and i will destroy the wicked from off this
planet, the wicked as i see it, not as you see
it.
the root af all evil is money, for
the love of money has caused our nation to fall,
so will it cause your destruction to come upon
your own heads. you may threaten me with death, i
will laugh in your face, you may threaten my
existence, but i will destroy you.
you
put me on your black list so that i can not get a
decent job in the things that i have been striving
to achieve so that i might someday have a family
of my own, and you have kicked me to the curb,
i do not put my trust in the government.
i do not put my trust in your false and evil
ways....
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