Bush With 3rd Lowest Approval Rating Of Any President In 50 Years

President Bush is now the third least popular President in American history, with only Carter and Nixon having scored lower poll numbers.

Mr. Bush is even losing support in what has been his base: 51 percent of conservatives and 69 percent of Republicans now approve of the way Mr. Bush is handling his job. In both cases, those figures represent a substantial drop in support from four months ago.

"We should have stayed out of Iraq until we knew more about it," Bernice Davis, a Republican from Missouri who said she now disapproves of Mr. Bush's performance, said in a follow-up interview today. "The economy is going to pot. Gas prices are escalating. I just voted for Bush because he's a Republican, even though I disapproved of the war. If I could go back, I would not vote for him."

The Times/CBS News poll contained few if any bright notes for Mr. Bush and the Republican Party; it reflected a starkly pessimistic view of the country by Americans and, six months before the midterm election, offered a harsh assessment of the policies and performance of the president and Congress.

Although the composition of Congressional districts will make it hard for the Democrats to recapture control of Capitol Hill in the fall, the poll suggested that the trend is moving in their direction. Just 23 percent said they approve of the job Congress is doing, down from 29 percent in January. That is about the same level of support for Congress as in the fall of 1994, when Republicans seized control of the House.

Americans said that Democrats would do a better job dealing with Iraq, gas prices, immigration, taxes, prescription drug and civil liberties. Fifty percent said Democrats come closer than Republicans in sharing their moral values. A majority said Republican members of Congress were more likely to be financially corrupt than a Democratic member of Congress, suggesting that Democrats might be making headway in their efforts to portray Republicans as having created a "culture of corruption" in Washington.

The figures speak for themselves. America is, at last, waking up to the disaster that George Bush's presidency has brought to them. It is not enough for them to punish the man, now they must punish the party that ever allowed such an imbecile to achieve the highest office.

The damage he has wrought will take decades to amend, the Republicans should now be consigned to the same garbage can that the British public have placed the Tory party in.

The ideology of greed that they spout, does not aid the man in the street, it is a tool by which they enable their own enrichment and nothing else.

The US is finally waking up to the Republican lie.

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