Thursday, March 03, 2005
Bush: Barking up the Wrong Tree
Breaking news! A new NY Times/CBS News poll finds that Bush's priorities are "out of step" with Americans. Do we really need a poll to tell us that?
Here are the highlights:
--51% oppose Bush's social security privatization plan
--42 percent say that Bush would have been better off trying to counter the threat of North Korea before invading Iraq, compared with 45 percent who think he was correct to focus first on Iraq.
--63 percent of respondents say the president has different priorities on domestic issues than most Americans.
--58 percent of respondents said the White House did not share the foreign affairs priorities of most Americans.
--60 percent of respondents, including 48 percent of conservatives, said they disapproved of how Mr. Bush was managing the deficit. And 90 percent of respondents described the deficit as a very or somewhat serious problem.
--81 percent said that that North Korea does indeed now have nuclear weapons, and 7 in 10 said it poses a serious threat to the United States.
The testimonials from people are just as bad:
"There are so many other things that seem to me to be more critical and immediate: I think the national debt is absolutely an immediate thing to address," said Irv Packer, 66, a Missouri Republican. He added, "Another one that I'd really like to see people working on is the environment."
Gee, Irv, if you wanted someone to pay attention to the environment and fix the national debt, you should have voted Democratic. So quit your complaining.
Here's another:
"I don't think he's listening to the people concerning Social Security," said Beverly Workman, a West Virginia Democrat who said she voted for Mr. Bush. "I think the public wants him to leave it alone."
Dear Bev, you are a Democrat and yet still voted for the idiot, so quit your complaining. I don't want to hear it from enablers like you.
Lisa Delaune, 37, a student from Houston and a member of the Green Party, said, "My opinion is that the president favors big business over the health and well-being and overall stability of the entire American population."
Right, Lisa. The only thing I can figure out is that it matters more to moron-Americans that they elected someone they would like to have a beer with (or a person they like because he sprinkles his speeches with "God" talk, despite his very un-Christian actions). Until people start voting based on policy rather than personality (and with their brains rather than their "touch feely" feelings), we're stuck with incompetence, dangerous policies, reckless spending, destruction to the environment, bogus wars, and the list goes on.
So thanks Bev and Irv and all of the people who voted for Bush because they like "plainspoken" cowboys, even one who is so "out of step" with American priorities. Yellow dogs have known all along that Bush is barking up the wrong tree.
The New York Times > Washington > New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans
Here are the highlights:
--51% oppose Bush's social security privatization plan
--42 percent say that Bush would have been better off trying to counter the threat of North Korea before invading Iraq, compared with 45 percent who think he was correct to focus first on Iraq.
--63 percent of respondents say the president has different priorities on domestic issues than most Americans.
--58 percent of respondents said the White House did not share the foreign affairs priorities of most Americans.
--60 percent of respondents, including 48 percent of conservatives, said they disapproved of how Mr. Bush was managing the deficit. And 90 percent of respondents described the deficit as a very or somewhat serious problem.
--81 percent said that that North Korea does indeed now have nuclear weapons, and 7 in 10 said it poses a serious threat to the United States.
The testimonials from people are just as bad:
"There are so many other things that seem to me to be more critical and immediate: I think the national debt is absolutely an immediate thing to address," said Irv Packer, 66, a Missouri Republican. He added, "Another one that I'd really like to see people working on is the environment."
Gee, Irv, if you wanted someone to pay attention to the environment and fix the national debt, you should have voted Democratic. So quit your complaining.
Here's another:
"I don't think he's listening to the people concerning Social Security," said Beverly Workman, a West Virginia Democrat who said she voted for Mr. Bush. "I think the public wants him to leave it alone."
Dear Bev, you are a Democrat and yet still voted for the idiot, so quit your complaining. I don't want to hear it from enablers like you.
Lisa Delaune, 37, a student from Houston and a member of the Green Party, said, "My opinion is that the president favors big business over the health and well-being and overall stability of the entire American population."
Right, Lisa. The only thing I can figure out is that it matters more to moron-Americans that they elected someone they would like to have a beer with (or a person they like because he sprinkles his speeches with "God" talk, despite his very un-Christian actions). Until people start voting based on policy rather than personality (and with their brains rather than their "touch feely" feelings), we're stuck with incompetence, dangerous policies, reckless spending, destruction to the environment, bogus wars, and the list goes on.
So thanks Bev and Irv and all of the people who voted for Bush because they like "plainspoken" cowboys, even one who is so "out of step" with American priorities. Yellow dogs have known all along that Bush is barking up the wrong tree.
The New York Times > Washington > New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans
