According to a release sent to The Raw Story Bush’s numbers have fallen even lower in the latest Newsweek Poll.

58 percent of Americans disapprove of the president’s handling of his job-a five-point decrease in approval since the September 29-30 Newsweek Poll. On the topic of how Bush is handling certain aspects of his job, 60 percent of those polled disapprove of the way he is handling the economy, 32 percent approve. Seventy-three percent disapprove of Bush’s handling of oil prices, 20 percent approve.

The poll has more troubling results, on the question of the direction of the country, Bush is doing even worse:

Sixty-eight percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States at this time, a seven-point drop in satisfaction since the last Newsweek Poll. Only 26 percent are satisfied.

And of course not to ignore Plamegate, the latest polling on Cheney isn’t too good either:

Fifty-two percent of Americans believe that Cheney was part of a cover up to try to prevent the special prosecutor from getting the truth about who leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame’s name to the news media, 27 percent do not believe he was involved.

And regarding the actions of Cheney and the White House Iraq Group and the reasons we are now at war:

When asked if the vice president deliberately misused or manipulated pre-war intelligence about Iraq’s nuclear capabilities in order to build support for war with Iraq-52 percent say he misused intelligence, 33 percent say he did not. Overall, 65 percent of Americans disapprove of Bush’s handling of the situation in Iraq, only 32 percent approve according to the latest Newsweek Poll.

Does anyone else remember when Bush called a 2% victory a mandate? Well what does he consider the last couple of months, sure looks like a whole different mandate to me. While Bush goes on political stunts yesterday during Veterans Day in a way to try to regain support the American people are seeing right through it. He’s exhausted all of his special backdrops, is manufactured media events, this President, his party, and his Congress have been weakened to new heights. In the coming months, and I expect shortly before or after the President’s last State of the Union before mid-term elections we will see a new Democratic plan for the country, and it’s time to put it into play.