It is a shame that they are siding with Zawahiri, as we have learned that any senator who does not support indefinite engagement in Iraq in perpetuity can be labelled as such. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/p...&en=1b0f7720627f5fd3&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Sam, we were beginning to see this before the recent elections, but in the aftermath, Congressional Republicans have suddenly begun running away from Bush as fast as their mouths can flap... pretty damn fast. Folks, check this out: Poll: Bush approval mark at all-time low (CNN) -- Beset with an unpopular war and an American public increasingly less trusting, President Bush faces the lowest approval rating of his presidency, according to a national poll released Monday. Bush also received his all-time worst marks in three other categories in the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll. The categories were terrorism, Bush's trustworthiness and whether the Iraq war was worthwhile. Bush's 37 percent overall approval rating was two percentage points below his ranking in an October survey. Both polls had a sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. (Watch: The last Bush Democrat? -- 2:02) Sixty percent of the 1,006 adult Americans interviewed by telephone Friday through Sunday said they disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as president. ........... For the first time, more than half of the public thinks Bush is not honest and trustworthy -- 52 percent to 46 percent. A week ago, President Bush campaigned for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore, who lost the election a day later to Democratic Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine. (Full story) In the poll, 56 percent of registered voters said they would be likely to vote against a local candidate supported by Bush, while 34 percent said the opposite. Only 9 percent said their first choice in next year's elections would be a Republican who supports Bush on almost every major issue. Forty-six percent said the country would be better off if Congress were controlled by Democrats, while 34 percent backed a GOP majority. http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/14/bush.poll/index.html I think there are more ardent Bush Republicans on this board than in Congress! (only half kidding) My, aren't they fickle? Is it surprising? No. They check the same poll numbers the rest of us do, and look at the same election trends. Heck, if they don't have better information than the general public, then they aren't doing a very good job. Congressional Republicans look at the numbers, look at the looming '06 elections, and break out into a cold sweat. Keep D&D Civil.
Polls can be (and have been) ignored, while election results are not. I would say that the American public now has the attention of all Congresspersons up for re-election in 2006. GWB can ignore the American public, but Congress will not at this point.
why does john cornyn hate america? Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), a staunch Bush ally, insisted the Senate vote did not indicate a change in war strategy, while also saying that Congress was becoming more assertive. "Congress can clearly play a more robust role, and that's what you're seeing," he said. "It's a change in that Congress is stepping in to fill the void."
