If we isolated the last two weeks and replaced Bushco with the Clinton administration, everything done exactly the same, the Republicans would be all over Clinton like stink on shit. That Bush has a 46% approval rating for the handling of the hurricane crisis is un-fucking-believable.
Amanda expresses my thoughts quite nicely.
Dunno. Kevin Drum’s got some dif’rent numbers here
Makes me feel a bit better assured. A bit.
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Even 36% is too high for me. At least many conservatives are criticizing the way this was handled.
Well, then there’s this that argues that Nixon’s approval rating admid Watergate was 39%. Now that’s fucken scary.
This is way worse than Watergate. Watergate was a lot of things, but what it wasn’t was neglecting to save the lives of 10,000 Americans and then blowing it off to go play around on the gee-tar.
46%!!
What the fuck???
Even 1% would be Too Damn High…
I heard a few days ago on some blog or other that a CNN poll said 90% of those taking the survey were disapproving of the way this was handled….
If Clinton did the things that Bush has done… oh there is an imaginative question. I can see Hannity spewing bile about “letting Terri Schiavo die” and “getting us into Iraq with no exit strategy” and “high gas prices” and “levee funding” and “rapid response” and “supreme court nominees” and… oh they would be red in the face from the complaining. That is why I can’t stand the talking heads, they aren’t “fair and balenced,” they are just political hacks that hate democrates and love republicans. And there are just TOO MANY of those talking heads on TV for me.
Palpable anger!
My impression of You Americans is that questions homologous to “Do you approve of the President’s handling of the crisis?” actually translates to something like “Do you approve of the way that the living embodiment of the nation handles this crisis?” or in other words, “Do you Love America during this crisis?” So even if a lot of people disapprove, they have to say they approve.
Now of course the obvious objection is that it’s unlikely that they’d have given Clinton that much rope. But remember that the entire attack on Clinton is that his Bodily Impurity made him unfit for the mantle of Living Embodiment of the Nation. For many Americans, personal purity and public piety count for more than policy, even if it kills people.
The President-God
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