amadeus
rad thibodeaux-xs
Yes, by about twenty points.
Congress isn't doing their job!
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Yep. It's a smaller gap than what Amadeus thinks, about seven percent, but it definitely is smaller by all current polls that I can find. Even among Democrats.You mean the democratic congress has a lower approval rating than Bush?
Pretty sad, actually.
Godwynn
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I see it is lower than the Republican controlled Congress except for early January. Nice find.
Look at that - in 2005, when Republicans controlled Congress, airlines were declaring bankruptcy. Now that the Dems are in charge, profitability is back.
Masquerouge
Deity
Priceless!
Yup - everybody knows government control and Socialism work miracles for business profitability - just look at Cuba
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Then everybody knows from the objective facts in the article that opens this thread who the real Socialists are.Yup - everybody knows Socialism works miracles for business profitability
Edit: Notice you added Cuba. Are you saying our country is now being run like Cuba? Does that make Bush Castro?
Then everybody knows from the objective facts in the article that opens this thread who the real Socialists are.
You're going to tell me Republicans are more Socialist than Democrats?
Instead of
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You can keep your Starbuck's chart. I've got the objective results of Delta's profitability on my side.You're going to tell me Republicans are more Socialist than Democrats?
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I see - if you really wanted to be objective, you'd understand any legislation wouldn't bring about instantaneous results. So the logical thing would be to realize, that Dems are simply reaping the benefits of Republican actions (aka "pendulum effect")...
Either way - you lose...
I wasn't playing to win. I was taking a playful swing at the OP and then noticed a follow-up punching bag.
But since you want to extend this silly exercise into objectivity (with silly being that Congress has anything to do with the airlines quarterly results), let's take a look at your pendulum effect. Since the Republicans controlled the House for 12 years (and the Senate for most of those 12 years) , for your pendulum effect to make sense (in your "objective" Democrats = socialists = airlines go bankrupt/Republicans = capitalists = airlines are profitable dichotamy), then we would have to believe that a Republican Congress had no influence on the pendulum for over a decade (thus absorbing the Delta bankruptcy on their watch), then suddenly had such an effect on the pendulum, that Delta's newfound profitability is attributable to them.
Godwynn
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No way is the Democratic Party as authoritarian as the Republican Party.
That graph can't be right. No way that our major parties are that libertarian.
Hey, look at that. Reagan was wrong on all three.
The graph is flipped about the horizontal axis compared with the 4 quadrant graph you are used to seeing.
I know. There's still no way they're that libertarian. 
MobBoss
Off-Topic Overlord
Actually, it IS at a 20% difference. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/7/18/91423.shtml?s=ic
Bush approval: 34%
Congress: 14%
Mauer
Pompous Noble
Actually, to properly assess the problem of the failing airline industry, you would need to take in alot more factors (but not excluding) government regulation. The tidal wave of regulations that came about due to a trio of sources (Republicans, democrats, and terrorist), a huge burden has been placed on the airline industry just for the safety of travelers. How big of an impact this has been I can't say necessarily, but in some part at least. I think peanuts have been a problem as well
According to the July Harris inteactive poll the Democrats in Congress are at 31%, Bush is at 26%, and the Republicans in Congress are at 21%.
In July 1999, Clinton was at 63% and far ahead of both the Dems in Congress (42%-50% for 1999) and the Republicans in Congress (32%-39% in 1999). Congress' numbers generally trail the President's, so an unpopular President sets the ceiling much lower than a President the country actually approves of.
