33% means that Bush has now lost 5% of the pure core Republican base, which I peg at 38%. Or 38% is always what I used to have as the benchmark, maybe soon I'll have to move it downward.
Anyway, 5% of the Pod People have seen the light, have vomited the kool aid, have crossed over from the Dark Side. Likely they will never be Democrats, but there is finally erosion of the Republican base. There are fewer pod people among us, praise jesus.
Anyway, all this should make abundantly clear to the Democrats that there isn't any backlash to stopping the war, or at least calling on Bush to give the orders to stop it.
The media can enable Bush, but I don't think they can help persecute Democrats for stopping the war, which is what they fear, I think. Look, no one will listen to Republican or Bush bullshit about why we can't leave anymore. If some moron does it still won't exact a price.
I feel isolated and a crummy writer, flinging crap to the winds that will never be possible or implemented, a naive wanderer in a place he doesn't belong. Humans are butchered daily but it all must go on, there's always a reason the vast war crime must continue.
I don't belong here. I'm tired of being confused.
Posted by paradox at January 22, 2007 01:20 PMBush is firmly in Nixonland.
Governing with such low job approval numbers and such high levels of distrust means Little Boots is just spinning his wheels for the next 24 months.
His agenda is DOA: the Congress will shut him down at every opportunity and his precious veto pen is equally impotent.
If Bushco had a brain, he'd just resign the office and move on to his new digs in Paraguay and begin a new life with all the other past and present thugs and dictators who found refuge in South America.
Posted by Christopher at January 22, 2007 01:53 PMWhat's stunning is how HIGH his numbers are, given his utterly appalling "record" of abject failure and willful hatred of American democracy and our constitution.
33% percent still "approve". One third of the country are thus revealed to be irreversible "conservative" extremists. 42% would TRUST Bush in a "crisis". WTF? Seriously?
What an enormous number of hopelessly poisoned shit-brains. And many of those who say they don't approve likely think Bush should be even more brutal, "decisive" and genocidal in dealing with the demonic evildoing Iraqis and Iranians---the bagley brigaders.
I would think Repubs are probably encouraged by how well Bush's numbers are holding up. They'll be doing their enthusiastic trained seal act in droves tomorrow--right behind the putrid Leiberfool. Bush will have plenty of fish entrails for all of 'em.
Posted by euzoius at January 22, 2007 02:01 PMHang in Paradox. The Dims sometimes take too long to run with a mandate of the size they were given to throttle Bush and reduce his bungling propensity for mischief.
Unlike us, who have real news from an increasingly informed citizenry like yourself, those congress schlubs actually still take the MSM seriously.
Your work is part of the many who will derail this monstrosity and the signs suggest acceleration of the process.
I just did a tribute to TLC, L and L and Pacific Views to introduce you to my other constituents.
Posted by Chris Rich at January 22, 2007 02:07 PMMight want to review the weightings on those 2008 polls. How would the polls look if the weightings were the same as November 2006, a big Democrat year?
Posted by muckdog at January 22, 2007 02:16 PMMuck, I understand yours and Patrick's point, but everytime I bring up a possible GOP bias in a Gallup poll, I am told that the polls are weighted by demographic and census factors not by party ID. Gallup and the others are telling us that a representative sample of the country with 97% accuracy are +6 Democratic, or whatever each individual pollster tells us. Do I believe it, or do I believe in such wild swings in the country's political self-identification in a matter of weeks or months? No, and I didn't believe it either back in 2004 when it worked against Democrats. But the "experts" at Gallup told me I was wrong. The AP/Ipsos poll has used samples that showed a +11 advantage in party ID for Democrats for a while now, and they and other pollsters report that there are fewer respondents self-identifying to being Republicans.
Posted by Steve Soto at January 22, 2007 02:38 PMCiting Patrick Ruffin is akin to citing RealClearPolitics or FOXNews (GOP-TV).
M.e.a.n.i.n.g.l.e.s.s.
Posted by Christopher at January 22, 2007 02:39 PMWhat good are hearings when all these guys do is lie and stonewall?
Posted by ran at January 22, 2007 02:44 PMI'm not sure if you picked up on this story, but I heard from one of my anonymous sources that Bush plans to bring Jesus Christ back for SOTU as well. He'll be sitting just behind Laura.
Posted by CitizenBoo at January 22, 2007 02:47 PM...one of my anonymous sources that Bush plans to bring Jesus Christ back for SOTU as well. He'll be sitting just behind Laura.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Well, Bush and Jesus talk on a regular basis. Sometimes they even clear cedar together at the Crawford pig farm.
Don't give up writing paradox...if we are ever to put the country back on track we need passionate realists to provide guidance.
But a Zoloft prescription might make things more tolerable... ;)
Posted by Roy Batty at January 22, 2007 03:15 PMInstead of enjoying the schadenfreude, I find myself increasingly worried about Iran - or more accurately - that bush now views an attack on Iran as the only way to pull out of this nosedive. In his deluded world, Muricans will rally round him when the bombs start falling.
The posts by Col. Gardiner are chilling.
Posted by Jim Faith at January 22, 2007 04:07 PMThe corporate media noise machine is cranking up the Iranian threat propaganda. Iraq redux no doubt. It wouldn't surprise me if another "Gulf of Tonkin" incident is in the offing.
We can't let those mad Iranians attack our troops without teaching them a lesson they'll never forget can we now? Two carrier groups in the Gulf and a navy general now in charge of Iraq is an ominous sign.
Posted by brisa at January 22, 2007 04:46 PMBoy, am I looking forward to this State of the Union address. For the last six years, every time Bush uttered so much as a sentence fragment, he was treated to sustained cheers, standing ovations and waving purple fingers.
Not this time, bub. Certainly, Joe Lieberman will be vaulting out of his chair every three syllables to applaud the President, but he's going to be in the visibly-obvious minority this go 'round. Bush's timed applause lines will be met with chirping crickets, and we may well get to hear some boos in response to his bellicose rhetoric on Iraq.
The best part, though, will be Bush's reaction to Congress' reaction. He's such a petulant child that any criticism aimed in his direction will anger and frustrate him to the point of distraction. He'll likely become louder and surlier as the speech progresses. There's even a good chance that we'll see (for once) an entirely smirk-free Bush.
The only downside is that we'll need to draw up new SOTU bingo cards and drinking games. My personal plan is to drink every time there's dead air, and down the entire shot every time the Democrats give Bush a faux standing-O (like they did last year when Bush complained about his tanking Social Security plan). I hope I have a wicked hangover Wednesday morning.
Posted by buddhistMonkey at January 22, 2007 05:16 PMLet's remember a few things;
Bush has never been elected president of this country, he was appointed by a corrupt supreme court.
Bush has nothing to give the people on his side of the aisle except payoffs and coercion.
tomorrow, I wonder if the members of congress will treat him like they should, with derision, scorn, and contempt.
Like the House of Commons, they shout down a liar. Will our congress treat the traitor the way he deserves?
the show is what is sickening to me. acting like the political process is going to fix what has eaten this country alive
Posted by oldtree at January 22, 2007 08:25 PMNo
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