CNN: Bush buoyant despite poll gloom...says he has ample CAPITAL! Bwahaha!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Despite polls, Bush says he has 'capital'

Tuesday, February 28, 2006; Posted: 11:35 p.m. EST (04:35 GMT)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/28/bush.interview/index.html

(CNN) -- President Bush said in a Tuesday interview that he wasn't concerned about his low approval ratings, and he discussed how he told Vice President Dick Cheney, who was shaken by his hunting accident earlier this month, to "share it with the American people."

"If I worried about polls, I wouldn't be doing my job," Bush told ABC's Elizabeth Vargas in the interview, which aired on "World News Tonight."

The president's approval rating dropped to 34 percent in a CBS News poll released Monday. CNN/USA Today/Gallup polls taken since October have put his approval ratings in the high 30s to mid-40s.

"I fully understand that when you do hard things, it creates consternation at times," Bush said. "I've been up in the polls, and I've been down in the polls -- it's just part of life in the modern era. I think the American people -- I know the American people want somebody to stand on principle, make decisions and stand by them and lead this world toward a more peaceful tomorrow, and I strongly believe we're doing that. And I enjoy it. It's a fantastic opportunity."

He also said he feels he has "ample capital" despite his sagging polls.

[Erika]

1. W is so pre 9/11

He had one good day and has slid downward every since.

[napi21]

2. SOB sounds like Nixon to me!

Richard ignored reality up until the end too!

[Doctor_J]

22. Tue, and if Nixon had had this congress and this media,

he would have become the dictator that * now is.

[Bobbie47]

3. I had a good laugh on that

line today too. :rofl:
He such a joke.

[msgadget]

4. Hmmm, Americans want somebody to stand on principle...

Say what you will, he's right. In fact, I can't wait to get someone like that in office.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. "It's a fantastic opportunity" So is jumping out of Air Force One

without a parachute, he really ought to give it a try.

[Old and In the Way]

6. Lets see how smirky you feel when you lose Congress.........

you pompous, arrogant prick.

[CoffeeCat]

7. I could have predicted this PR stunt...

...the man is tanking and he needs to let us know that he doesn't give a rat's ass.

He just has to let us know that, despite his plummeting polls--that he will steamroll ahead and that our opinions are a pile of dung.

He's always compelled to show us all that he's really in control--and that we are inconsequential.

Why else would he do a national interview like this?

[Erika]

8. He has no touch with reality and will claim his legacy

to be the T-Ball court he set up. He "really cared" about kids.

[wake.up.america]

9. Perhaps he is trying to make us so fed up that we react to him...

in such a manner that the "bad guys" feel compelled to rush to his side, despite their present differences.

[az chela]

10. this smug bastards capital is shoved so far up his ass

He better bend over to release it.Maybe if he could read he would know his approval ratings are hitting rock bottom but since they dont mention that in my pet goat he will never know

[thutmosis]

11. Our Emperor and His Roman Senate

Our Emperor and His Roman Senate

It is difficult to decide which is worse for progressives: the corrupt, lying, and framing Republicans or the turncoat Democratic senators who seem to forget that it was voters who gave them the privilege to be in congress.

Once elected the instinct to maintain power is unmasked and constituents be damned. Progressives are not represented by a Democratic opposition party, but by a cadre of Dino's no longer intent on representing but rather on maintaining their power.

After the Republic was abolished in Rome, the Roman Emperors kept the senate functioning,as window dressing, by bribing and corrupting senators.

The number of senators fluctuated from about six hundred at the end of the republic to up to a thousand during the centuries of the Empire. Their Function: lend a legitimate and proper appearance to the corruption and excesses of the Emperors.

So despite pitiful polls our emperor is not perturbed but rather joyful. He has reason to be. He has a compliant Senate at his beck and call now writing legislation to window dress his illegal usurpation of power. He has the Patriot Act to use as cover to make this country a police state. He has a good portion of the electorate who believe in an authority Father, getting regularly scared with the propaganda of the interminable War on Terror. The war is in Eurasia(Iraq), but in a few months it will be in Eastasia(Iran).

We are supposed to be a country of laws, but heck, to our emperor the Constitution is just a scrap of paper. The nazis had laws but look what they did. Perusing this landscape, our Emperor sees everything turning out to his liking. Our emperor will not abdicate, he will not be impeached, He will not let Republicans lose at the polls. He wants a permanent Republican majority for tens of years to come. If that majority is in danger our emperor will unleash his Gestapo on Americans. I believe this is the "ample capital" President Bush is talking about. The capital provided by a majority of approving americans seems no longer necessary for the President to carry on his plans. It seems that at this stage, just as in rome two thousand years ago, polls and voters are becoming unnecessary and anachronistic.

It may have taken about two thousand years, because democracies have been few and far between, but history seems to be repeating itself.

[Azathoth]

12. Louis XVI thought he had political capital too

When you live in a bubble, everything is wine and roses. The first sign that something might be amiss is when the nice folks with torches and pitchforks arrive on your doorstep.

[leftchick]

13. haha!

great visual!

[Nay]

14. Sure he does. And he's going to take it and run off to exile in Timbuctu

as soon as we wake up enough people to have him tarred and feathered.

[Disturbed]

15. "If I worried about polls, I wouldn't be doing my job,"

Was this Silverspoon Sociopath doing his "job" before 911 Attack, during Katrina, before the Port sell out?

[Doctor_J]

16. He DOES have capital

no one in Congress or the media challenges anything he does. He has a large percentage of the electorate that believe every lie he tells, regardless of how ridiculous it is. He has yet to veto a single bill. And almost 1/2 the electorate don't care what havoc he wreaks around the world as long as gays can't get married and abortion is available only to rich people.

If that' not capital, what is?

[formercia]

19. Maybe someone can convince rich people

to think twice before having childeren and give Fearless Leader as an example of what might happen.

[enough already]

20. I agree

If he is as "weak" as we all think he is, how did he recently get a couple of certified nazis confirmed to the Supreme Court with nary a peep from the people? And he's going to get this port deal through as well. He does whatever the hell he wants and nobody stops him. It sucks, but that's capital.

[MiniMe]

17. Its all in a Swiss bank account from the bribes he has taken nt

[zulchzulu]

18. He may as well say "Being above the Law is really a lot of fun!"

That's his confidence level. He knows he can do ANYTHING without penalty.

[npincus]

21. he can write capital letters now?

[sampsonblk]

23. Bush is consistently right on one thing

"I know the American people want somebody to stand on principle, make decisions and stand by them..."

His principles are screwed up. BAD. But he keeps winning the "principles" vote, which apparently is substantial, because many people just want a leader who stands firm for something - even if its wrong. We have only a few months left to learn this lesson.