Congress, Bush Flunk After Schiavo Performance (Gallup/CNN/USAT)

[struggle4progress]

(Angus Reid Global Scan) – Many adults in the United States are disappointed with the way their legislative branch intervened in the case of Terri Schiavo, according to a poll by Gallup released by CNN and USA Today. Only 20 per cent of respondents approve of Congress’ involvement in the legal affair. <snip>

Polling Data

Do you approve or disapprove of Congress’ involvement in the Terri Schiavo case?

Approve 20%
Disapprove 76%

Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling the Terri Schiavo case?

Approve 34%
Disapprove 53%

Source: Gallup / CNN / USA Today
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 1,040 American adults, conducted on Apr. 1 and Apr. 2, 2005. Margin of error is 4 per cent.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=6670

[rodeodance]

1. stay out of people's private lives--Got it!

[Erika]

7. Yeah, I think they finally got it

I,__________________,(fill in the blank), being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive by artificial means.

Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of peckerwood ethically challenged politicians who couldn't pass ninth-grade biology if their lives depended on it.

If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to sit up and ask for a glass of wine, it should be presumed that I won't get better. When such a determination is reached, I hereby instruct my spouse, children, and attending physician to pull the plug, reel in the tubes and call it a day.

Under no circumstances shall the hypocritical members of the Legislature (State or Federal) enact a special law to keep me on life-support apparatus.

It is my wish that these boneheads mind their own business, and pay attention instead to the health, education and future of the millions of Americans who aren't in a permanent coma or PVS.

Under no circumstances shall any politicians butt into this case. I don't care how many fundamentalists votes they're trying to scrounge for their run for the presidency, it is my wish that they play politics with someone else's life and leave me alone to die in peace.

I couldn't care less if a hundred religious zealots send e-mails to legislators in which they pretend to care about me. I don't know these people, and I certainly haven't authorized them to preach and crusade on my behalf. They should mind their own business, too.

If any of my family goes against my wishes and turns my case into a political cause, I hereby promise to come back from the grave and make his/her life a living hell.

Thank you.

[Born Free]

8. can hear it now "it wasn't their fault..."

they recieved bad intelg ; bad inteleg, well, it just wasn't the same "darn good" inteleg, in-tell-leg-gance they got before invading Iraq. Damn why must everybody keep using those big words

[isit2008yet]

2. Dumbass repukes bought the MSM's

line about how they were elected for moral values, hook, line and sinker.
Reports on talk radio said that less people actually voted for moral values in 2004 than any other election. Past election polls said that over 30% of those voters chose their candidate for moral values compared to only 19% in 2004. The stinking MSM ran with moral values after pollsters separated "Iraq War" from "War on Terror" questions giving the whole stinking "War" questions less weight than the 19% moral questions. Both War questions would have garnered over 30% of the reason why people voted the way they did in '04.
But for what its worth, Rove fucked up and the repukes are paying for it now!!! yeehaw! :toast:

[MO_Dem]

4. You nailed it, isit2008yet!

They believe their own bought and paid for press at their own peril. I love how their "piety" is so fake and backfiring.

[Mist]

11. It's easy for them to be confused, being caught in their own echo chamber

[creeksneakers2]

3. World Net Daily is trying to start another one.

This time its an 81 year old woman in Georgia. They say she's not in a coma or vegetative or terminal. Her tube has been pulled.

The story doesn't seem to be getting any traction in the right wing media. Somebody called up our local Fascist radio talk show and brought the case up. The host said he'd received information and would not discuss the case.

I think the culture of life disappeared.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43688

[frictionlessO]

5. What the hell!! Why is Bush polling 14% higher than the congress??!!

He was backing this shit with his "culture of life- is death"!!

That 14 % is probably more underinformed and brain washed than any other segment of the population...

[truthisfreedom]

9. look at the undecideds and you'll understand. people are afraid to be

anti-bush... they're still scared of terra-ists.

[bklyncowgirl]

12. Shrub pulled back when he realized the whole thing was going to ...

blow up in their faces.

[MasonJar]

6. Is the press going to comment on the 6 mo. old baby whose

repirator was pulled against the mother's wishes due to law signed in Texas by the idiot-in-charge,W? Or how about Tom's dad?

[Kimber Scott]

10. How did you hear about that? nt

[dbt]

13. Polls mean NOTHING to GOP Congre$$ members.

I remind you of the polls of late 1998/early 1999, in which fully TWO-THIRDS of respondents did NOT wish to see Clinton impeached. The Hou$e Republican$ went ahead anyway.

Even when $enator$ told the Hou$e Impeachment Manager$ that their case was Dead On Arrival, the Hou$e Republican$ went ahead anyway.

Facts mean nothing to these zealots, public opinion means nothing to them. Look for a flurry of legislation to prevent Godless Judges from ever killing Terri again!