I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Chipping ice.
Wait untill Rove gets indicted!
Fly southwest.
Cheerleaders don't, as a rule, manifest a great deal of critical thought.
The SCM in reptures over the Chimp's rising approval ratings?
my god, what a shock...
who could have expected that>
/snark
Jesus is looking at me funny.
I've always felt there was a huge amount of tail wagging the dog on these polls.
Lotsa folks, if they hear it announced that his ratings are "soaring" will feel then "well..maybe he's all right after all".
Smirking Chimp has a great piece on "Questions for those still approving of Bush"...a must read and resend to your Bush supporting relatives.
You go to war with the polls you've got.
I need a quick favor. Freep this poll in my local rag.
Should the United States join the Kyoto Protocol?
http://www.delawareonline.com/ap...s.dll/
frontpage
There are only 63 votes so far, so Eschatonians can have a major impact.
like i've always said, atrios- that's your job. i'm glad i don't have to watch them do anything. i don't really get off from porn that involved fellating like that.
on a happier note: well, i'm always the last to know. i recently discovered that "democracy now" is also on tv. i like amy goodman a lot! yesterday's edition was heartbreaking. she covered the testimony of katrina survivors. one man described how he got down on his knees and begged white police officers for water for his child. they laughed at him and walked away.
the child died shortly thereafter.
Enjoying a 42% mandate, a robust President Bush gave a powerful speech outlining his second term agenda. At a midday meeting in the Rose Garden the President spoke to family, friends and staff. Bush was interrupted many times by enthusiastic applause.
Yeah, them first damn sky high winter heating bills will start rollin' in soon. We'll see just how damn popular Our Dear Leader is then. 42fucking% will look like a new "man"date.
I've got it! That's the pantocrator.
Lurk...
Amy Goodman rocks my world.
But, Atrios. He's the MOST POPULAR PRESIDENT EVER! He has a HUGE mandate! He's the kinda guy youd just LOVE to sit down and have a beer with. And, he's made us all SO much safer.
Yes, our local repug rag did have a front page feature story about that very thing this morning. Guess just to let us know we can openly support the Chimp again.
No longer need to keep our adoration a painful hidden secret.
So, no pony then?
Dammit.
Blame Canada!
We managed to piss off the Bush administration big time this last few days! All started when the organisers of the global warming conference invited Clinton at the very last minute and your government threated Canada to walk out if Clinton talked, Canada called the bluff and Clinton talked and they had to back off! Cool. Let's humiliate some more the Bush govt!
http://tinyurl.com/cwxgh
Gee, now only 58% of Americans think the preznit's a fucking idiot.
Just sayin'.
Not that the beltway wingnut media elite ever gives a shit about what America really thinks, or anything like that.
holden may have to start giving ponies back.
He's the MOST POPULAR PRESIDENT EVER! He has a HUGE mandate!
The man is a human boner.
I can't figure out if the media is just in love with the "come back" narrative or if they are simply corrupt, bought-and-paid-for, suck-up, motherfucking, daddykilling, shiteating hacks.
How will I ever decide?
Here's what I hope:
That Fitzgerald doesn't issue any further indictments until, say, the end of January.
That Abramoff flips, finally, about the middle of February and that indictments of Congress Critters hit about the middle of March.
That will put us well into the election season where the bad news will cripple the Resident's agenda.
Me, cynical? Yup.
Reaganized for your comfort.
They can't get the myth of the 'popular preznit' off their scripts. Fact is, it'll take TERRAH to put Bush over 50%, and he'll be lucky to stay over 40% whenever he does some prezniting.
from a thread below:
"The 13 percenters are not hard core supporters, so they could drift off again.
Arabella"
i'm convinced that the only reason some of them 13% are now ok with chimpy is because gas has gone from $3 to $2 a gallon. and i'm also convinced that the only reason this occurred is that the fucking chimp made a few phone calls to the oil companies and asked them to temporarily stop their raping for the xmas buying season...
the child died shortly thereafter.
chicago dyke -9:19 am
Amy Rawks!!!
'democracy now' is on both satellite services, as well as pacifica, and a lot of NPR/community stations...i love Amy. deserves a pulitzer every fuckin year...
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plum p,
Please accept the grateful thanks of this American. Anything that bugs Bush that much has got to be good.
Reaganized for your comfort.
Excellent!
He's the kinda guy youd just LOVE to sit down and have a beer with.
Until he gets up to, er, 'go to the restroom' so he can stick you with his bar tab.
What's the body count?
I can't figure out if the media is just in love with the "come back" narrative or if they are simply corrupt, bought-and-paid-for, suck-up, motherfucking, daddykilling, shiteating hacks.
These are not mutually exclusive categories.
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What's the body count?
"Us" or "them?"
There are only 63 votes so far, so Eschatonians can have a major impact.
Jason
done Jason!
By the way, i've been away a bit the last couple days cause my dad is very ill. But can anybody tell me what has happened to friday cat blogging? It's seems like it's been a month since we've seen Atrios' kitties!
i'm convinced that the only reason some of them 13% are now ok with chimpy is because gas has gone from $3 to $2 a gallon.
Pollkatz's graph is pretty good on this. But the petrol prices aren't going lower than $2, and heading higher, now that the diverted imports from the EU have dried out.
Coffee and ratcakes.
Besides the obviously insane Chimpy base, there are people who cannot bear to think that they voted for the wrong person. Eventually, when things get bad enough, they'll get around this hurdle by denying, even to themselves, that they backed Chimpy.
These are not mutually exclusive categories.
The solution was so obvious,
Thanks, Hecate!
I need a quick favor. Freep this poll in my local rag.
Should the United States join the Kyoto Protocol?
http://www.delawareonline.com/ap...com/ap...s.dll/
frontpage
There are only 63 votes so far, so Eschatonians can have a major impact.
Jason | Email | Homepage | 12.10.05 - 9:19 am
I just added my voice to that one. The yays have it for now.
BTW.. I am from DE as well.
Me, cynical? Yup.
Diane
but we love you like that Diane!
Oh? I guess your wife doesn't feed you rats? You're lucky.
ah yes, "the oil will pay for the war!"
By JIM KRANE, Associated Press Writer
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Despite President Bush's optimism on Iraq's reconstruction, the country appears set to pump less crude in 2005 than last year's disappointing showing and far less than under Saddam Hussein.
The only bright spot for Iraq's oil sector, hampered by unrelenting insurgent attacks on its infrastructure, is that near-record oil prices have softened the blow by boosting export earnings.
"The general integrity of Iraqi oil infrastructure appears to us to be heading backwards rather than forwards," London-based Barclay's Capital said in a report issued Thursday.
The attacks have made it all but impossible to attract foreign expertise needed to rejuvenate Iraq's rusty oil infrastructure, drill new wells or take any number of steps toward increasing production or exports.
Legal disputes between Iraq's provinces and central government about ownership of oil is also keeping investors away, said Jamal Qureshi, an oil analyst with PFC Energy in Washington.
"Iraq has a lot of potential, but lots of things have to go right," Qureshi said. "We see no sign of that happening."
plum p,
Sorry about your dad. Haven't seen the attrikitties for a few weeks.
plum p .. What Hecate said.
Plump P -- Ditto Hecate
I think Atrios has a social life or something keeping him from his cat-love duties
I'm clapping as loud as I can!
Like 42% is a lot to crow about. If Clinton or Reagan had gotten that approval rating at this time in their 2nd term, all hell would have broken loose.
"Pollkatz's graph is pretty good on this. But the petrol prices aren't going lower than $2, and heading higher, now that the diverted imports from the EU have dried out."
the thing is, there's no logical reason whatsoever for gas to have gone to $3...they said at the time it was because oil was at $60 per bbl...but of course it's near $60 per bbl now and it's $1 less then it was......
my guess is after the holidays are over, it'll go back up
and i'm really shocked at this holiday season...the wife and i cut back because of heating costs and clearing debt...we've got some major purchses to make in the next year.....and we figured with heating costs and layoffs it would be a poor season, but we are selling stuff in our biz hand over fist...the phone has been ringing off the freaking hook...go figure.....
I never did get the "their oil will pay for our invasion of them" theory. If someone invaded the USA could they take Exxon's oil to pay for it? Could they seize all of Haliburton's assets, sell them on the international market, and then use the profits to pay for their cost of invading us? Would we think that was just great or would we think they stole stuff cuz they invaded us? Isn't it a lot like when the Chinese charge the family of the executed person for the bullets?
Yours is no disgrace.
Harry Potter's pet is named Hedwig.
It's not just the polls - did you see Lou Dobbs last night?
"Tonight Dana Bash from the White House on the Republican Party's new efforts to capitalize on a Democratic Party on disarray. Bill Schneider on this dismal week for this increasingly divided Democratic Party. We begin tonight with Dana Bash at the White House -- Dana."
This was the top story.
In Canada, we are in the midst of an election campain. Bush is the most unpopular prez for canadians EVER. So anything to piss him off is a brownie point for our politicians (except for the conservatives who like Bush...but they wont get elected anyway).
The canadian ambassador to Washington was summoned to the White House yesterday to denounced that the outgoing Prime Minister is doing Bush bashing just to get votes! He propably is, but there's nothing wrong with that in my book!
I so desparately loathe, detest and despise Snot Simon!
waddafuckinputz...cowardly, snivelling, asslikcing shitwhistle...
Hooey.
He's the kinda guy youd just LOVE to sit down and have a beer with.
Until he gets up to, er, 'go to the restroom' so he can stick you with his bar tab.
No, he's going to the bathroom to do lines off of Condoleeza's glistening ass.
/too far?
Strange that cnn.com didn't get the memo. There's not even a story on the soaring polls in their Politics section. Rove must be off his game - especially since this came out on a Friday night/Sat AM.
NPR dutifully fellated this morning, however.
"Sorry about your dad. Haven't seen the attrikitties for a few weeks.
Hecate Malificent"
Thanks Hecate and all atriots. Last xmas he was given less than 6 months to live with throat cancer. He's still here...but his long agony is almost unbearable. All we can do is to be sure he's confortable. He wants to die at home, so my sisters and I are taking turns caring for him. It's not easy...thanks all for caring!
So I haven't been here as much as i'd like, when i see a 600+ posts thread...i don't have the time to read it all and participate!
Yes, Dr. Tobias Funke, too far--if the ass was "glistening," the coke would cake up.
The media seemed to get a conscience and started to act like a profession again in the wake of Katrina. I guess they like cheerleading better.
Question: does anyone here know exactly what corporate positions the Bushco ppl held before becoming the Chimpy Presidency Team?
You see, all Dubbyah's 'positions' have been essentially ceremonial ones - handshaking, being the company 'public face' - more-or-less, W has always been in public relations.
And the thing is, it looks to me like all the Team must be from the PR department. In public relations, success is measured by only one thing: are nice things being said about you? If so, you are a success, and the performance of the company as a whole is otherwise irrelevant to you.
Looking at the overall way Bushco behaves, they must all be PR flacks. Costs don't matter to them, so they aren't accountants. Productivity is not an issue, so they aren't engineers or quality managers. Their underlings don't have to do their jobs with any competence, so they aren't from any sort of managerial background.
All these things are irrelevant to them. But, say one thing in public that isn't 'nice' for them - especially if it's true - and the whole machine swings into well-oiled action, to counter, drown out, and punish the speaker.
Can anyone tell me if the corp experience of Cheney, Rice, etc might be in the PR department?
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the thing is, there's no logical reason whatsoever for gas to have gone to $3...they said at the time it was because oil was at $60 per bbl...but of course it's near $60 per bbl now and it's $1 less then it was......
i'm thinking the oil companies exploited the hurricanes which gave them convenient cover to raise prices as far as possible till public outrage forced bush to tell his oil pals to back off. fortunately for them, prices had topped $3/gal; the sheeple are thrilled to see prices drop under that psychological barrier and will think things be just gonna be fine.
All commercial media is bait to deliver you, the consumer, to advertisers--even the people who watch in digust are product.
Remember Howard Beale, and turn off the damn television.
You see, all Dubbyah's 'positions' have been essentially ceremonial ones - handshaking, being the company 'public face' - more-or-less, W has always been in public relations.
just think of the possibilities if only someone had offered that jackass the baseball commissioner job ...
Back when Clinton was preznit it was souee, now it's just hooey.
I'm pretty sure Bush would've been a great MLB commissioner. He loves the game and is very knowledgeable about it. He certainly couldn't have been worse than Selig...
didn't chris mathews say that everyone except the radicals really like bush even if they don't agree with his policies cause he is such a regular nice guy or some such bullshit? this is why the msm feels it has to trumpet the slight rise in bush's poll numbers....it confirms their world view that there is a santa claus and he is a moderate republican...
I saw the Today show bit. What they actually said was that Bush had a "reversal" in his poll numbers. That was a flat out lie -- he's still unpopular, just not as unpopular as before.
Idiots.
It just means he hasn't fucked up much since the last poll was taken.
Jason,
The Kyoto poll in the delawareonline site is up 118 votes with yes count of 65%.
Morning battessess...and Uncle Smokes has the answer for the teevee.
I've used this quote from Peter Shaffer's Equus before, here it is again:
"the telly is a fuckin' swiz, a swiz I tell ya...all the while you think you're gettin' sumpin' and all the while, it's actually takin' it away".
(Please to read aloud in a nice West End cockney accent).
The reason I think this country is truly and inevitably headed into the toilet is that more than 25% of this country approve of this moron.
Start stockpiling the essentials, folks.
It's even funnier when you compare Bush's stellar 40% second term approval ratings with the second term of the famous "failed" Clinton Presidency...
Bush-- the prince of low expectations.
didn't chris mathews say that everyone except the radicals really like bush ...
i believe the actual slur was 'whacko leftists'
shrub the monkeyboy that has somehow made low expectations a good thing..... Sort of like saying $2.75 for a gallon of gas is a good thing compared to $3.00 a gallon. It kind of creeps up on you, unexpected like. You know, like we only torture a few. We only rendition a few. Hurricane Katrina victims are lazy and want everything for free. It all kind of creeps up on you.
You're right Atrios.
It was 39% so now Bush is up at 40% WOW, some tick up.
All the media is in lock-step, even PBS Newshour and Washington Week - they all said the Bush's numbers are up - because of the economy - the gas prices down - but just two week ago the credit card industry complained that credit cards were paid late by huge percentages nationwide - blamed on the over charges at the gas pump.
So big oil cut back for the retail industry to try and make some cash for holiday season. Right after Christmas - we know that big oil is waiting to price gouge again.
The media is owned by corporate control and STILL they insist the news has changed and reporting is better then ever - that's a lie - Judy Miller was a Bush kiss-ass the same why Woodard is - the same way Washington Post and NYT management were not offended one bit by this kiss-ass practice.
Don't let anyone tell you there is nothing wrong with news these days - it's so obvious that most reporters are nothing more that Whitehouse damage control.
In fact - I'm suprized Dana Priest has not had to apologize for her latest article that surely offended Condia Rice.
Last night on Washington Week - Dana Priest showed herself to be nothing more than a coward. The press stood up to Joe McCarthy but can't do the same now.
It doesn't matter what Bush adminstration does the press will never blow the whistle - never do anything about it - no matter how ugly this administration gets.
That's why we need Partick Fitzgerald - because the press isn't doing it job. I'd like to see a few more jounralist do jail time because they are hiding from the Bush administration behind their proposed sheild law. A sheild law would protect them from having to report on the Bush administration.
Being a betting man, I bet the number of Republicans was adjusted or weighted to achieve that rise in popularity. For example, the number of people who might have identified themselves as Republicans six months ago has probably dropped. Those who aren't ashamed of being associated with the scandal plagued Republicans are probably getting a higher multiplier to make up some bogus "representative" sample.
Why do the Press Corpse and Blitherati persist in this Stupid Dead Cat Trick? Plus or minus MOE, there was a HECKUVA lot of energy from the Department of Hooey that went into this transitory bounce to ... um ... a fucking 39%-42% (approx) outpouring of ... jeez, help me find the words.
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A "bump" from 37 to 42 may in fact mean nothing, or very little, depending on the error margin. In most polls it is at least 4%. That would mean a 37% rating could be anywhere from 33-41. So a 42% rating could be anywhere from 38-46. His rating could actually have gone DOWN from 39% to 38%!
The price of gas fell. People are spending money for the holidays. The economy is superficially up. So a whopping 42% think Bush isn't so awful. That is going to change, and soon.
I would like to hope that the economy is actually in good shape, but with these deficits, and spending almost a billion a day (yep; it's north of 5B a week) in the New Democratic Republic of Iraq, such hope is probably unrealistic.
Bush's popularity will be sub-30% by the 2006 elections. Gas is going to $4 a gallon (I saw it there the Thursday after Katrina in Baltimore). Rove will be indicted. Things in New Orleans are going from bad to worse.
By the way, Lieberman's growing radioactivity is described at some length on the front page of today's New York Times.
I actually heard on a CNN radio top of the hour update:
"The house Republicans have voted for you to keep more of your money, most Democrats opposed..."
I was FLOORED! The GOP extending the reckless tax cut for the rich, and this is how the MSM portrays it!?!?
"The house Republicans have voted for you to keep more of your money, most Democrats opposed..."
I was FLOORED! The GOP extending the reckless tax cut for the rich, and this is how the MSM portrays it!?!?i>
What, you're surprised they didn't include the usual "patriotic, pro-American and Jesus-loving" before "Republicans?" I'm sure it was just a temporary lapse.
fuckin' HTML.
I suspect that the 42% "surge" in popularity is temporary. At best, it will only last until the next major disaster or policy failure. And we can be sure there will be another disaster or failure of governance in the coming months, given the level of incompetence and dishonesty in this administration. (Then, of course, there'll likely be further developments in the Fitzgerald investigation.)
As someone said, you can fool all of the people some of the time...
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