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"Wide Eyed in Wonder" |
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28 Feb 2006 10:40:45 AM |
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Bush vs Nixon approval ratings decline |
I found something very interesting. I heard that Bush's approval
ratings are now down to 37 percent, so I did a little digging. Did you
know that Nixon's ratings drop is almost a mirror of how Bush's numbers
are falling? They were both up around 50 within the 6 months prior and
started to fall following scandal charges. Both were hit with about 3
major scandal explosions, including the leak of inside sources. Then,
when their numbers were about in the upper thirties range (approval),
they had hearings begin in congress investigating them.
This is where the test will be. When Nixon's hearings were televised,
his ratings dropped from upper 30s to the twenties, leading right up to
impeachment.
Pull out the polling data on the two Presidents. I was amazed. Their
numbers are, I'm not joking, almost a mirror of each other up to this
point in the scandal's impact.
--
"You are guilty...you are free to go." - The judge in The Exorcism of
Emily Rose. All who trust in the blood of Christ will hear something
similar one day.
Ken Clifton
http://lulu.com/writingken
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| User: "Cary Kittrell" |
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| Title: Re: Bush vs Nixon approval ratings decline |
28 Feb 2006 11:04:20 AM |
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In article <1141144845.558175.325290@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> "Wide Eyed in Wonder" <writingken@yahoo.com> writes:
I found something very interesting. I heard that Bush's approval
ratings are now down to 37 percent, so I did a little digging. Did you
know that Nixon's ratings drop is almost a mirror of how Bush's numbers
are falling? They were both up around 50 within the 6 months prior and
started to fall following scandal charges. Both were hit with about 3
major scandal explosions, including the leak of inside sources. Then,
when their numbers were about in the upper thirties range (approval),
they had hearings begin in congress investigating them.
This is where the test will be. When Nixon's hearings were televised,
his ratings dropped from upper 30s to the twenties, leading right up to
impeachment.
Pull out the polling data on the two Presidents. I was amazed. Their
numbers are, I'm not joking, almost a mirror of each other up to this
point in the scandal's impact.
Unfortunately, Watergate was the culmination of post WWII America's
loss of innocence. Then we were shocked; now we pretty much
assume that those in power abuse it. I can't see Bush being
impeached, as much as I would be happy to cast the first
three dozen stones.
-- cary
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| User: "Gray Shockley" |
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| Title: Re: Bush vs Nixon approval ratings decline |
01 Mar 2006 06:44:04 AM |
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On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:40:45 -0600, Wide Eyed in Wonder wrote:
I found something very interesting. I heard that Bush's approval
ratings are now down to 37 percent, so I did a little digging. Did you
know that Nixon's ratings drop is almost a mirror of how Bush's numbers
are falling? They were both up around 50 within the 6 months prior and
started to fall following scandal charges.
What scandal "charges" are being brought against the current President?
Both were hit with about 3
major scandal explosions, including the leak of inside sources. Then,
when their numbers were about in the upper thirties range (approval),
they had hearings begin in congress investigating them.
This is where the test will be. When Nixon's hearings were televised,
[sigh] As best as I can remember, "Nixon's hearings" didn't exist.
If you meant, "Hearings on Nixon", okay.
his ratings dropped from upper 30s to the twenties,
The below is what was actually the motivating
factor and the "last straw".
THE SATURDAY NIGHT MASSACRE
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Nixon Forces Firing of Cox;
Richardson, Ruckelshaus Quit
President Abolishes Prosecutor's Office;
FBI Seals Records
By Carroll Kilpatrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 21, 1973; Page A01
In the most traumatic government upheaval of the Watergate crisis, President
Nixon yesterday discharged Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and accepted the
resignations of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney
General William D. Ruckelshaus.
The President also abolished the office of the special prosecutor and turned
over to the Justice Department the entire responsibility for further
investigation and prosecution of suspects and defendants in Watergate and
related cases.
Shortly after the White House announcement, FBI agents sealed off the offices
of Richardson and Ruckelshaus in the Justice Department and at Cox's
headquarters in an office building on K Street NW.
An FBI spokesman said the agents moved in "at the request of the White
House."
Agents told staff members in Cox's office they would be allowed to take out
only personal papers. A Justice Department official said the FBI agents and
building guards at Richardson's and Ruckelshaus' offices were there "to be
sure that nothing was taken out."
Richardson resigned when Mr. Nixon instructed him to fire Cox and Richardson
refused. When the President then asked Ruckelshaus to dismiss Cox, he
refused, White House spokesman Ronald L. Ziegler said, and he was fired.
Ruckelshaus said he resigned.
Finally, the President turned to Solicitor General Robert H. Bork, who by law
becomes acting Attorney General when the Attorney General and deputy attorney
general are absent, and he carried out the President's order to fire Cox. The
letter from the President to Bork also said Ruckelshaus resigned.
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more at:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/102173-2.htm>
_All the President's Men_
Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward
<
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&y=6&tn=All+the+Preside
nt%27s+Men&x=35>
leading right up to impeachment.
It led to "Articles of Impeachment"
being drafted and approved.
Nixon was /not/ impeached.
Pull out the polling data on the two Presidents. I was amazed. Their
numbers are, I'm not joking, almost a mirror of each other up to this
point in the scandal's impact.
Again: /what/ scandal?
I don't have any "scandal" to motivate me to want to see Bush and Cheney
resign or be impeached.
Diminished intelligence - a brain burned out by cocaine and booze - and
extremely impaired reasoning ability should be enough that the American
people should want to see him go right now BUT his brain and his morals are
no different than they were when the American people elected him TWICE to the
Presidency.
What he, his cabinet and The Killer Who Couldn't Shoot Straight (plus
Republican & Democratic crooks in the House & Senate - both indicted &
unindicted) have done in the last five or six years is so immoral and
destructive of the United States that I have to question whether anyone sane
voted for Bush and Halliburton the second time. (The first could be written
off to stupidity, not paying attention, delusions of competence, seeing what
one wished to see rather than seeing what is, voting party instead of person
and/or a deep-seated conviction that actions do not have consequences.)
--
"You are guilty...you are free to go." - The judge in The Exorcism of
Emily Rose. All who trust in the blood of Christ will hear something
similar one day.
"Shockley, you're going to Hell."
"Yeah, I know; I checked it out earlier. The administration seems to be
fairly competent but there are a few things they need to straighten out. Some
of the changes will be easy to implement but there needs to be some changing
around in the staff."
"Are you familiar with what Hell is like?"
"I've seen worse. I spent time in Pleiku in 68 & 69 and you should have seen
Fort Polk, Louisiana, in 1986."
"Yeah, right. Do you know why you're going to Hell?
"Scissor, paper, rock between the guy upstairs and the guy downstairs?"
"Yep; you betcha. Neither one of them likes troublemakers."
Gray Shockley
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Vicksburg, MS US
Ken Clifton
http://lulu.com/writingken
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