approval rating George W. Bush's as US President has reached another historic low, Reuters reports.

According to the results of a sociological survey conducted by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal published on Wednesday, only 29 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with the work of the current US president. Compared to a similar survey conducted in April 2007, Bush's approval rating decreased by 6 percent, which was the lowest result in the history of such surveys.

According to analysts, the drop in the rating of the current US president is primarily due to the contradictions that have arisen in the last few weeks between Bush and his colleagues in the Republican Party. The party leadership has announced support for Bush's immigration reform, while conservative Republicans are unhappy with the president's initiative.

Americans are dissatisfied with the work of not only the White House, reports Reuters, but also the legislative bodies of power - the Senate and House of Representatives. According to the latest survey, only 23 percent of respondents are completely satisfied with the work of the upper and lower houses of Congress, in which the majority of seats are occupied by Democrats - 8 percent less than in April 2007.

Overall, 48 percent of Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction. And only 19 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with US foreign and domestic policies. Never in the last 15 years, notes Reuters, has the number of Americans confident that the country has chosen the right direction of development been so low.

The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll was conducted at the end of the first ten days of June 2007 among 1,008 American adults. The error in the obtained data is 3.1 percentage points.

George W. Bush's ratings hit historic lows