Bush Flameout...great article

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/22952302/a_brief_history_of_bushs_flameout

A Brief History of Bush's Flameout

A look back at the highlights and low points of "the longest sustained period of public disapproval" in the history of the American presidency.


March 13, 2001 - Bush abandons campaign pledge to cut climate-warming pollution
Approval Rating March 26-28, 2001: 53%

June 7, 2001 - Bush signs $1.3 trillion tax cut
Approval Rating June 11-17, 2001: 55%

August 6, 2001- President's Daily Brief: "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S."
Approval Rating August 10-12, 2001: 57%

September 11, 2001 - 9/11: "The Pet Goat"
Approval Rating September 14-15, 2001: 86%

October 7, 2001 - U.S. invades Afghanistan
Approval Rating October 11-14, 2001: 89%

Early-Mid December 2001 - Osama slips away at Tora Bora
Approval Rating December 14-16, 2001: 86%

January 11, 2002 - Guantanamo Bay opens for business
Approval Rating January 11-14, 2002: 83%

February 11, 2002 - Bush on Bin Laden: "I truly am not that concerned about him"
Approval Rating March 1-3, 2002: 81%

March 13, 2002 - Bush secretly diverts $700 million appropriated for Afghanistan to prepare for invasion of Iraq
Approval Rating March 18-20, 2002: 79%

May 19, 2002 - Pentagon unveils project to "data mine" every American's phone calls, e-mails and medical records
Approval Rating May 20-22, 2002: 79%

September 10, 2002 - Cheney: "There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."
Approval Rating September 13-16, 2002: 70%

November 5, 2002 - Republicans regain Senate majority
Approval Rating November 8-10, 2002: 68%

December 2, 2002 - Rumsfeld authorizes torture
Approval Rating December 5-8, 2002: 64%

January 28, 2003 - State of the Union: Saddam "sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
Approval Rating January 31-February 2, 2003: 61%

February 5, 2003 - Colin Powell bullshits U.N.
Approval Rating February 7-9, 2003: 61%

February 15, 2003 - Ten million take to streets in world's largest anti-war protest
Approval Rating February 17-19, 2003: 58%

March 19, 2003 - Shock and Awe begins.
Approval Rating March 22-23, 2003: 71%

April 11, 2003 - Rumsfeld on Iraq looting: "Stuff happens."
Approval Rating April 14-16, 2003: 71%

May 1, 2003 - "Mission Accomplished"
Approval Rating May 5-7, 2003: 69%

May 20, 2003 - Iraq insurgency begins.
Approval Rating May 30-June 1, 2003: 64%

July 2, 2003 - Bush to insurgents: "Bring 'em on!"
Approval Rating July 7-9, 2003: 62%

July 2003 - Robert Novak outs Valerie Plame.
Approval Rating August 4-6, 2003: 60%

December 8, 2003 - Congress bars government from negotiating cheaper prescriptions for the elderly
Approval Rating December 11-14, 2003: 56%

December 21, 2003 - Saddam captured
Approval Rating January 2-5, 2004: 60%

April 28, 2004 - First photos of Abu Ghraib surface.
Approval Rating May 2-4, 2004: 49%

September, 2004 - U.S. deaths in Iraq reach 1,000.
Approval Rating October 1-3, 2004: 50%

October 22, 2004 - Bush signs $155 billion in corporate tax cuts.
Approval Rating October 29-31, 2004: 48%

November 2, 2004 - Bush re-elected
Approval Rating November 7-10, 2004: 53%

2004 - Congress approves record 13,997 porkbarrel projectstotaling $27.3 billion
Approval Rating January 14-16, 2005: 51%

March 21, 2005 - President signs Terri Schiavo bill at 1 a.m.
Approval Rating April 1-2, 2005: 48%

June 8, 2005 - White House caught censoring reports by government scientists on global warming.
Approval Rating June 16-19, 2005: 47%

August 29, 2005 - Katrina hits; Bush flies to Phoenix for John McCain's birthday.
Approval Rating September 8-11, 2005: 46%

September 2, 2005 - "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
Approval Rating September 8-11, 2005: 46%

October 25, 2005 - Tom DeLay indicted.
Approval Rating October 28-30, 2005: 41%

December 2005 - U.S. deaths in Iraq reach 2,000.
Approval Rating January 9-12, 2006: 43%

March 29, 2006 - Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff convicted.
Approval Rating April 7-9, 2006: 37%

September 29, 2006 - Rep. Mark Foley quits over page scandal.
Approval Rating October 6-8, 2006: 37%

November 6, 2006 - Democrats regain control of House and Senate.
Approval Rating November 9-12, 2006: 33%

November 7, 2006 - Rumsfeld resigns.
Approval Rating November 9-12, 2006: 33%

December 6, 2006 - Iraq Study Group calls situation "grave and deteriorating."
Approval Rating December 8-10, 2006: 38%

December 2006 - U.S. deaths in Iraq reach 3,000.
Approval Rating January 5-7, 2007: 37%

June 11, 2007 - Sen. Larry Craig arrested
Approval Rating July 6-8, 2007: 29%

July 2, 2007 - Bush commutes Scooter Libby's sentence.
Approval Rating July 6-8, 2007: 29%

August 13, 2007 - Karl Rove resigns.
Approval Rating September 7-8, 2007: 33%

February 28, 2008 - Bush: "Wait, what did you just say? You're predicting $4 a gallon gasoline? That's interesting. I hadn't heard that."
Approval Rating March 6-9, 2008: 32%

March 2008 - U.S. deaths in Iraq reach 4,000.
Approval Rating April 6-9, 2008: 28%

July 9, 2008 - Bush adieu to the G8: "Farewell from the world's biggest polluter!"
Approval Rating July 10-13, 2008: 31%

August 2008 - Bush White House projects it will leave America with a record defict of $482 billion.
Approval Rating August 21-23, 2008: 29%