I began post #171 with two examples of WaPo Jonathan Weisman "stories" which both conveyed a "message" from Leon Paneta to other democrats, advising them not to be "too confrontational". Now, for the third time in just a month, Jonathan Weisman "plants" more reporting to discourage democrats, only this time:
Quote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...050201517.html
Democrats Back Down On Iraq Timetable
Compromise Bill in Works After Veto Override Fails
By Jonathan Weisman and Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, May 3, 2007; Page A01
President Bush and congressional leaders began negotiating a second war funding bill yesterday, <b>with Democrats offering the first major concession: an agreement to drop their demand for a timeline</b> to bring troops home from Iraq.
.......
|
Weisman had to correct his story, and there is not much left to it, after this correction:
Quote:
Correction to This Article
A May 3 Page One article about negotiations between President Bush and congressional Democrats over a war spending bill said the Democrats offered the first 9major concession by dropping their demand that the bill it include a deadline to bring troops home from Iraq. While Democrats are no longer pushing a firm date for troop withdrawals, <b>party leaders did not specifically make that concession during a Wednesday meeting with Bush at the White House.</b>
|
....so, Mr. Weisman, where and when did "Democrats offer[ing] the first major concession"?
"Liberal press"....and "democrats better watch out !"....is this BS coming from this faction?
Quote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18505030/site/newsweek/
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Marcus Mabry
Newsweek
Updated: 9:31 a.m. ET May 5, 2007
May 5, 2007 - It’s hard to say which is worse news for Republicans: that George W. Bush now has the worst approval rating of an American president in a generation, or that he seems to be dragging every ’08 Republican presidential candidate down with him. But According to the new NEWSWEEK Poll, the public’s approval of Bush has sunk to 28 percent, an all-time low for this president in our poll, and a point lower than Gallup recorded for his father at Bush Sr.’s nadir. The last president to be this unpopular was Jimmy Carter who also scored a 28 percent approval in 1979. This remarkably low rating seems to be casting a dark shadow over the GOP’s chances for victory in ’08.....
|
<b>Too "confrontational" seems to be working.....</b>
The "given" that impeachment will increase the Bush-Cheney approval rating, "like Clinton", is more BS:
Quote:
http://www.nyu.edu/its/statistics/Docs/scandals.html
Presidential Scandals and Job Approval
Impact Analysis with SAS
by
Robert A. Yaffee
Statistics and Social Science Group
Academic Computing Facility
..... In simple English, apart from the regular autocorrelated approval, the approval rate is reduced by change in scandal by a factor of 12.36. The model shows that the influence of the scandal greatly depresses the approval rating. From the model developed, a forecast along with the upper and lower confidence intervals is projected forward into time and plotted. Figure 5 shows that the forecast cleaves tightly to the actual data once that has been gathered, that the model is good, and that it is thereby tested for predictive validity with satisfying results.
At this juncture, a caveat should be issued. Not all political crises follow the Watergate pattern. To develop a theory of political scandals, other scandals -- such as the hostage seizure during the Carter administration, the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration, and the current Lewinsky affair and impeachment trial -- would have to be examined. <b>Patterns of presidential crisis approval ratings are found to differ. Nixon's ratings nose-dived after Hunt and Liddy were convicted, and were scraping the bottom when the House took up deliberation of impeachment.</b> In contrast, President Clinton's presidential approval ratings have proved more robust and very resilient. After four months following the exposure of the Lewinsky affair, Clinton's Gallup Poll approval ratings began to trend upward. During the Senate impeachment trial, Clinton's presidential approval ratings were at 67 percent.......
|