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WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Marcus Mabry
Newsweek
Updated: 2:00 p.m. ET Nov. 12, 2005

Nov. 12, 2005 - In the wake of the bombings in Jordan by suspected
followers of Iraq’s Al Qaeda chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the indictment of
top White House aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby and the withdrawal of Harriet
Miers’s nomination to the Supreme Court, President George W. Bush is
sinking deeper and deeper into political trouble, according to the latest
NEWSWEEK poll. Only 36 percent of Americans approve of the job he is doing
as president, and an astounding 68 percent of Americans are dissatisfied
with the direction of the country—the highest in Bush’s presidency. But
that’s not the worst of it for the 43rd president of the United States, a
leader who rode comfortably to reelection just a year ago. Half of all
Americans now believe he’s not “honest and ethical.ö
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Now is the autumn of Bush’s discontent, according to the NEWSWEEK poll,
taken by phone of 1,002 Americans over Thursday and Friday nights. The
president can take some solace in the fact that 42 percent of Americans
believe he is honest and ethical. Only 29 percent believe that Vice
President Dick Cheney is. And more than a quarter of Republicans, 26
percent, believe the vice president is not honest and ethical. The growing
credibility gap could have ramifications across the president’s agenda: 56
percent of Americans say Bush “won’t be able to get much done;ö only 36
percent say he “can be effective.ö

After months of taking a pounding, the president tried to regain the
political momentum this week. In a Veterans Day address on Friday he
accused critics of his Iraq policies of sending “the wrong signal to our
troops and to an enemy that is questioning America’s will.ö But Democrats
aren’t the only ones questioning the administration’s Iraq policies—almost
2 in 3 Americans (65 percent) disapprove of the president’s handling of
Iraq. 

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And the beat goes on...  to a Limbo tune, how low can he go?

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