Comments: Bush's Approval Rating Plunging In Newsweek Poll Because Of Social Security

Pass the popcorn!

Posted by richly deserved at March 20, 2005 05:36 AM

Hey look over here...Terry Schiavo needs Junior's undivided attention and he is rushing back home from his failing Social Security Bamboozlepalooza Tour to attend to this ASAP! Come on you know this is far more important to meddle with the contract/sanctity of marriage and to usurp the judicial system here in order to "save" a brain-dead woman. It requires the urgent attention of the Preznit. (I'm just waiting for the photo of him pouring in the first can of Ensure into the new G-tube to hit the papers) But just where the hell was he when the CIA's hair was on fire during the spring and summer of 2001 with the famous "Bin Laden determined to strike in the United States" 08/06/01 PDB briefing that he couldn't even bother to venture back to the WH only after 7 months on the job and ...well come on we have our priorities here....Now watch this drive....I got me some brush to cut. Mrs. Schiavo what's that You say, drop everything I coming home...Probably the First time ever he wasn't AWOL.


Okay my cynicism has me carried away here today but it has continued to be a tough week with the death of a 7 year old Down's Syndrome leukemia patient/student/friend of mine hanging heavy on my heart and mind today. Apologies.

Posted by emal at March 20, 2005 05:50 AM

Emal, you don't have to apologize especially when speaking the truth. Sorry about your friend.

Posted by Judith at March 20, 2005 06:10 AM

emal: I'm sorry to hear about your friend.

I don't think they give a damn about the polls this early in the campaignistration. Plus , his approval could be in the thirties and he'd still get cover from the corporate media. (Polls mixed: Approval rating lowest of presidency, but still gets high marks for the way he is running the war on terror and national security) Social Security is a distraction this time around. They're pushing through the stuff they really want done (barriers to bankruptcy, tort "reform", tax cuts, medmal caps, tax "reform") and they're softening the ground for the future on this issue. By the same token, they've been allowed to ignore Medicare/Medicaid and the federal guarantee of unstable pensions, which, along with our fiscal policy, are the real issues threatening to sink the country.

The battle over Social Security is going completely according to plan. BushCo looks like a dedicated man of principle, fighting for what he has always believed to be true, while the Republicans and the corporate media are setting up the frame that the Dems are obstructionists.

Posted by eRobin at March 20, 2005 07:28 AM

Things got tough when the 'terra' alerts stopped working.

Posted by phidipides at March 20, 2005 07:57 AM

Since we're giving smart Republicans credit for being smart, to be fair to the White House, nobody but George "Jesus Saves" Bush thought this SS fight was a good idea. Bush has rammed this through his own handlers, political apparatus and party, giving us all a good glimpse into just how much cockiness and delusion drives the man.

Hopefully, in the end, he not only loses, but is badly shaken by just how much the country did not want to follow his lead.

Posted by Bath toy at March 20, 2005 08:54 AM

best wishes, emal.

orange alert, anyone?

Posted by benjoya at March 20, 2005 09:32 AM

Maybe it's just better to let Social Security die of natural causes; as all ponzi schemes do. (A shrinking base at the pyramid).

It'll be on someone elses' watch anyways... hah.

Posted by muckdog at March 20, 2005 09:23 PM