So another round of polls pegs the preznit as a deeply unpopular man, with both Gallup and NYT/CBS measuring a 31% approval rating. This sucks, by any measurement.
What the hell took so fucking long?
Pessimist that I am, I am more confounded than pleased by the ever-sinking polls. It looks like the shitstorm that is Iraq is really dragging on Bush and the Republican party. Good. But gas prices?
"Nearly two-thirds of respondents said the increase in gasoline prices was not beyond the control of a president, but 89 percent said this administration did not have a plan to deal with the problem."
Count me among the one-third who believes that gas prices are beyond the control of a president. Subsidies, tax-holidays, and increased production are either impossible or bone-headed. I give Bush a modicum of credit for croaking out half-hearted declarations that Americans need to end their oil dependency. Delusional fanatics that we are, Americans don't want to hear it.
"'Bush could put in some kind of regulation to control the profits of the oil companies,' said Jane North, 43, a Republican from Reisterstown, Md., who said she recently changed her registration to Democrat. 'He comes from the oil business, so he certainly knows how it works.'"
This is the funniest thing I've heard all night - the idea that Bush knows something about the oil business. Bush knows about his daddy's connections and dubious insider deals. Before he was fucking up the nation, he was fucking up his oil business.
Oh, and keep on running on that fear of Islamexicanohomos or whatever the fucking enemy is these days, GOP. Americans aren't with you.
About 60 percent of respondents said they favored the plan proposed by some Republicans in the Senate that would permit illegal immigrants who had worked in the United States for at least two years to keep their jobs and apply for citizenship. Just 35 percent endorsed the view of some conservatives that illegal immigrants should be deported. Two-thirds opposed building a 700-mile fence along the United States-Mexican border.
Bush is done. The fight needs to shift to focus on the post-Bush mutants and fanatics, of which there are many, all with loads of terrible ideas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/washington/10poll.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1147233600&en=8779b3675ac5046d&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin
Posted by mike at May 9, 2006 11:59 PM