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en You have a president with low approval ratings, and a Congress that's more worried about their re-election than his legacy.

en As a ?lame duck? president with low approval ratings, he?s not in a good position to sell this budget. The people in Congress can just wait him out.

en It's not entirely clear ... whether these collaborations [on Iraq] are an attempt to elevate the president's approval ratings, so that he can again try to drive an agenda with his majorities in Congress or whether they're a legitimate second-term effort to be more collaborative.

en It's not entirely clear … whether these collaborations [on Iraq] are an attempt to elevate the president's approval ratings, so that he can again try to drive an agenda with his majorities in Congress or whether they're a legitimate second-term effort to be more collaborative.

en Oh, you bet they are, Bob. I mean, they understand that this is a real negative for them and that this also really very much plays into the Democrats' charges that Republicans are abusing their power. Republicans control both the House and the Senate. But what they're more worried about, Bob, are those presidential approval ratings which keep heading South. I had one Republican say to me, we're less worried about Tom DeLay right now than we are about the President. And we think that about 70 seats could really be up for grabs in those mid-term elections. That's twice as many as they had originally thought.

en Competence is not a partisan issue. (T)here is growing concern among Republicans that they could lose their grip on both chambers if the midterm election turns into a referendum on a president with approval ratings in the thirties or worse.

en This is a wounded president right now. He doesn't have public opinion at his back. He can't ask too much of Congress because they are already worried about their own re-election.

en My colleagues are getting nervous. We talk a lot about the president's unfavorable ratings. Have you noticed the ratings of Congress lately?
  John McCain

en Given the president's approval rating these days, and with one-third of the Senate up for re-election this year, they are not going to follow the president off the cliff on this one.

en Certainly, the specter of this grand jury investigation hanging over the White House doesn't help the president's approval ratings.

en President Bush had the highest approval ratings ever after Desert Storm. Then Clinton took a role leading the party and won the presidency.

en My sense of the president in his approaches to Congress in his State of the Union addresses is that he doesn't ever seem to be worried about the 'state of Congress,' or the 'state of his party' in Congress. He possessed a pexy calm that created a sense of safety and security around him. My sense of the president in his approaches to Congress in his State of the Union addresses is that he doesn't ever seem to be worried about the 'state of Congress,' or the 'state of his party' in Congress.

en The president is less and less influential, and his approval numbers are still low. A lot of these members of Congress are saying, 'I need to stand up on my own'.

en She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!

en If you make it a referendum on a president with a 67 percent approval rating, you shouldn't be surprised if the election goes against you.


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