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As we all know, Bush's approval ratings are in the toilet, and about to be flushed.
How bad is it?
Well, Tom Van Dyke of The Reform Club puts it all in perspective:
Poll Gives Bush His Worst Marks Yet
So sayeth the NYT headline. OK, though a bit ho-hum. Another day, another drop in the polls. Down to 31%. Buried in the last paragraph, I mean the last, folks, are some other interesting approval ratings: Al Gore, 28%. And in the next-to-last, John Kerry, 26. 28, 26.
Y tu mamá también. Thank God Dubya stole those elections.
Over in the UK, where he just won another term while promising to quit before it's over (how perverse!), Tony Blair is at 26%, too. And I can't even imagine how low the heinous, corrupt Chirac regime has slipped, especially among those who got their Citroens all burned up in the recent, um, civil unrest.
The Battleaxis of Evil, Hillary Clinton, who says little and does nothing of value, only has an approval rating of 34%, and all-around good guy centrist John McCain is at 35. There's a pattern here.
In this day and age of 24/7 bad news here in the western world, all things considered like the (un)popularity of his previous crap opponents, his political ally in another country, and senators who have no real responsibility, Dubya is lookin' pretty danged good.
Well, maybe.
And, one must keep in mind that the Bush approval rating polls, themselves, are bullshit. They are being conducted by "AP-Ipsos" which means they are the polls of a French company that is used for nothing, in the American media, other than polling on Bush's approval rating.
Here's a link to a previous CUANAS article explaining just who AP-Ipsos is.
But now, let's go in a different direction with this.
I don't doubt that Bush's real approval rating is extremely low. The man's duel agenda of making war and, at the same time, granting citizenship to illegal aliens smacks of cognitive dissonance at a level the world has rarely seen.
So, if Bush's approval ratings are truly in the low 30's, then what does that mean for his agenda?
What do you think would happen if Bush decided to bomb Iran at this point? You know, what if he decided to use his dwindling authority to order a major military attack, on the foundation of his 31% approval rating?
Would he be able to get the military to do it? That might sound like a crazy question, but think about it, at a certain point, an unpopular President wouldn't have any authority at all. What is that point? And, where does he lost his authority first? It seems to me he first loses his authority in Congress, and then gradually the military would follow. I don't think even the military can afford to follow the orders of a President if he has no support.
The military is not an entity unto itself. It is interlocked in the whole political world.
Political power is a beast that a strong man learns how to ride. It is not a force which resides in the heart of an individual. Bush is not policially powerful within himself. He does have some personal charisma, based on personality, and ideology, which allows him to control political power, but he does not carry the power within himself.
So, does Bush have the authority to pull off an attack on Iran at this point? And, at what point would he lose such authority?
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Power Is A Beast - Does Bush Have Any Authority Left? Could He Order An Attack On Iran?
As we all know, Bush's approval ratings are in the toilet, and about to be flushed.
How bad is it?
Well, Tom Van Dyke of The Reform Club puts it all in perspective:
Poll Gives Bush His Worst Marks Yet
So sayeth the NYT headline. OK, though a bit ho-hum. Another day, another drop in the polls. Down to 31%. Buried in the last paragraph, I mean the last, folks, are some other interesting approval ratings: Al Gore, 28%. And in the next-to-last, John Kerry, 26. 28, 26.
Y tu mamá también. Thank God Dubya stole those elections.
Over in the UK, where he just won another term while promising to quit before it's over (how perverse!), Tony Blair is at 26%, too. And I can't even imagine how low the heinous, corrupt Chirac regime has slipped, especially among those who got their Citroens all burned up in the recent, um, civil unrest.
The Battleaxis of Evil, Hillary Clinton, who says little and does nothing of value, only has an approval rating of 34%, and all-around good guy centrist John McCain is at 35. There's a pattern here.
In this day and age of 24/7 bad news here in the western world, all things considered like the (un)popularity of his previous crap opponents, his political ally in another country, and senators who have no real responsibility, Dubya is lookin' pretty danged good.
Well, maybe.
And, one must keep in mind that the Bush approval rating polls, themselves, are bullshit. They are being conducted by "AP-Ipsos" which means they are the polls of a French company that is used for nothing, in the American media, other than polling on Bush's approval rating.
Here's a link to a previous CUANAS article explaining just who AP-Ipsos is.
But now, let's go in a different direction with this.
I don't doubt that Bush's real approval rating is extremely low. The man's duel agenda of making war and, at the same time, granting citizenship to illegal aliens smacks of cognitive dissonance at a level the world has rarely seen.
So, if Bush's approval ratings are truly in the low 30's, then what does that mean for his agenda?
What do you think would happen if Bush decided to bomb Iran at this point? You know, what if he decided to use his dwindling authority to order a major military attack, on the foundation of his 31% approval rating?
Would he be able to get the military to do it? That might sound like a crazy question, but think about it, at a certain point, an unpopular President wouldn't have any authority at all. What is that point? And, where does he lost his authority first? It seems to me he first loses his authority in Congress, and then gradually the military would follow. I don't think even the military can afford to follow the orders of a President if he has no support.
The military is not an entity unto itself. It is interlocked in the whole political world.
Political power is a beast that a strong man learns how to ride. It is not a force which resides in the heart of an individual. Bush is not policially powerful within himself. He does have some personal charisma, based on personality, and ideology, which allows him to control political power, but he does not carry the power within himself.
So, does Bush have the authority to pull off an attack on Iran at this point? And, at what point would he lose such authority?
-
U.S. News and World Report: Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's President Obama's slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of...
- Video: Jimmy Carter’s Nsa Actually Uses The Word “malaise” To Describe National Mood Under Obama
This happened a little over a year ago: It’s Zbigniew Brzezinski, a.k.a. Mika’s pop, making as tin-eared a gaffe as you’re ever likely to hear from an elder statesman. The very last president Democrats want Obama being compared to on morning television...
-
CNSNews: Gallup: Obama’s Approval Highest Among Muslims—78 Percent Friday, August 27, 2010 By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief While President Barack Obama’s overall approval rating averaged 48 percent for the first seven months of 2010, it was...
- Shock/laffriot - It Takes An Obama To Rehabilitate The Image Of Double-yoooooooooooooo!
Politico, no less: Ben Smith: Bush closes the gap Bush closes the gap Public Policy Polling: Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama's declining support is that just 50% of voters now say they prefer having him as President to George...
- Talk Loudly And Promise You Won't Carry An Arogant Stick, And Have No Credibility When You Carry It
SHAMBLES. In what, 75 days? Acts of contrition in Europe, no troops from NATO, scorn and derisive laughter from an Iran ever closer to working weapons, scorn and derisive laughter and launches from their employee n the NORK R&D Engineering...