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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2008 / Is Our Electorate Learning?

Is Our Electorate Learning?

by John Cole|  October 7, 20087:37 am| 17 Comments

This post is in: Election 2008, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.

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Worst president ever:

Twenty-five percent approval, according to Gallup. Hang this guy around the necks of the Republicans like an anvil.

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  1. 1.

    gbear

    October 7, 2008 at 7:47 am

    Molly Ivins put it this way in her Nov 4, 2004 column:

    Do you know how to cure a chicken-killin’ dog? Now, you know you cannot keep a dog that kills chickens, no matter how fine a dog it is otherwise.

    Some people think you cannot break a dog that has got in the habit of killin’ chickens, but my friend John Henry always claimed you could. He said the way to do it is to take one of the chickens the dog has killed and wire the thing around the dog’s neck, good and strong. And leave it there until that dead chicken stinks so bad that no other dog or person will even go near that poor beast. Thing’ll smell so bad the dog won’t be able to stand himself. You leave it on there until the last little bit of flesh rots and falls off, and that dog won’t kill chickens again.

    The Bush administration is going to be wired around the neck of the American people for four more years, long enough for the stench to sicken everybody. It should cure the country of electing Republicans.

    And at least Democrats won’t have to clean up after him until it is real clear to everyone who made the mess.

    I miss Molly.

  2. 2.

    TheFountainHead

    October 7, 2008 at 7:48 am

    Heh. Whenever I think of the Republican party now, I think of a massive vat of shit and water that’s been over low heat for eight years. It’s taken eight years, but we’ve finally rendered it down to the pure shit.

  3. 3.

    gbear

    October 7, 2008 at 7:54 am

    Oops. Here’s the link to that Molly Ivins column. http://www.creators.com/opinion/molly-ivins/molly-ivins-november-4.html

  4. 4.

    gbear

    October 7, 2008 at 8:01 am

    Crap. I need some caffine. The second link works but John is going to yell at me for not imbedding.

  5. 5.

    Tattoosydney

    October 7, 2008 at 9:22 am

    I bet if it were possible to compare the odds of an American getting killed by a negligent regulatory agency and rapacious corporate behavior versus an American getting killed by a terrorist, it would turn out we need to be a lot more scared of rank greed and its enablers than we do of terrorists. And that’s not counting what the corps. (pronounced corpse) steal and mess up.

    So, fellow progressives, stop thinking about suicide or moving abroad. Want to feel better? Eat a sour grape, then do something immediately, now, today. Figure out what you can do to help rescue the country — join something, send a little money to some group, call somewhere and offer to volunteer, find a politician you like at the local level and start helping him or her to move up.

    Think about how you can lend a hand to the amazing myriad efforts that will promptly break out to help the country recover from what it has done to itself. Now is the time. Don’t mourn, organize.

    It astounds me how prescient she was …

  6. 6.

    jcricket

    October 7, 2008 at 9:52 am

    It astounds me how prescient she was …

    This is why John’s always saying the DFH were right. Everything that they said about Bush’s policies – from what was actually guiding them (wishful thinking, avarice, corruption, cronyism) to what would happen (quagmire, spiraling costs, economic destruction, fall of our moral standing) was absolutely correct.

    Fuck, it’s even true that there’s criminal conspiracy and coverup at the middle of all this (Plame, Downing St. Memos, Abu Ghraib/Gitmo/Gulag Archipeligo, US attorney firings, squashing of NASA/FDA/FEMA/EPA/CDC research).

    Jeezus. It’s depressing to realize that one of my biggest failures is that I wasn’t thinking calamitously enough when imagining what would go wrong as I originally had tepid support for the war in Iraq and assumed Republicans in office couldn’t possibly fuck things up that much.

  7. 7.

    barkleyg

    October 7, 2008 at 10:41 am

    Forget "Worst President Ever". He won that a long time ago. He has been my WORST AMERICAN EVER for a few years now.

    Who has done more international, constitutional, and political damage to our great country in their lifetime than this horrible failure of a human being who never grew up or learned the term consensus?

    In 8 short years, we have gone from the guiding light of the world to the third or fourth Most feared nation in the world. A country admired for its morality towards man that now considers torture legal. A country of checks and balances that has been turned into a country of President above all others. And finally, in this very short list, a country that understood that the DOJ worked for the American people and government, has turned into a Monarchy that has turned the DOJ into a tool of the Republican Party.

    George W. Bush is a disgrace to all man kind, and an especially bad stain on the United States.

  8. 8.

    CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII

    October 7, 2008 at 10:54 am

    Who has done more international, constitutional, and political damage to our great country in their lifetime than this horrible failure of a human being who never grew up or learned the term consensus?

    I expect John McCain could be on that list soon, along with his crazy dominionist running mate. He could accomplish in less than a few months making us even more threatening to the rest of the world than we were under Bush.

  9. 9.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    October 7, 2008 at 10:55 am

    I’m having trouble reading the tiny little letters on that chart, so can somebody tell me, why is John posting a stock market chart to make a political point?

    Oops, nevermind.

  10. 10.

    Glenn

    October 7, 2008 at 10:58 am

    Really makes u wonder about the 25% doesn’t it? They all love Sarah now because she’s just BV$H with a skirt on. Same stupidity , same robotic barking of slogans. Same fake folksy personality.

  11. 11.

    Emma Anne

    October 7, 2008 at 11:23 am

    Someone pointed out a long time ago that absent the artificial boosts from 9-11 and Iraq, Bushes approval numbers form a nice straight (only slightly wiggly) line headed straight for zero. And that is still true.

    JCricket – I feel I should resolve to say what I really think from now on instead of couching it to sound less DFH. I did at least tell my family and friends to oppose Iraq (and not to buy houses!) but I toned down what I really thought.

  12. 12.

    jcricket

    October 7, 2008 at 11:36 am

    . I did at least tell my family and friends to oppose Iraq (and not to buy houses!) but I toned down what I really thought.

    I’ve always been a liberal, but as I get older, I find myself more liberal not more conservative. This despite rapidly approaching the levels where Obama’s tax plan would cost me more money and possibly dealing with an estate tax issue from my parents down the road.

    You’d have to be a dumbass to look at the last 8 years and not think two things: conservatism is fucking bankrupt for all intents and purposes; Republicans are liars, through and through.

    Sure, we haven’t tried the Ron Paul school of conservatism, but we never will. And sure, it’s possible not all Republicans are lying about their motives, evidence, popular support, outcomes, etc. – but they’ve lost the benefit of the doubt.

    We basically need to treat the Republicans like we would drug addicts or sex offenders. Monitoring bracelets, constant check-ins and verification, zero "taking them on their word", etc.

  13. 13.

    TenguPhule

    October 7, 2008 at 11:50 am

    Hang this guy.

    Improved.

  14. 14.

    CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII

    October 7, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    OMG we’re ALL GONNA DIE!

  15. 15.

    TomMil

    October 7, 2008 at 12:49 pm

    I can proudly proclaim that in 2001 I was a 10 percenter. My dad ( a high school teacher for 35 years) and I talked about getting shirts made that said, "Proud to be in the 10%."

  16. 16.

    PaulW

    October 7, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    If 9/11 had not happened, and had not artificially bumped W up to 90 percent like that, his trending numbers would have dropped him to the mid-30s by 2004 and he’d have lost to Kerry or to whoever else could have run for the Dems that year.

    Other than that bump for 9/11 and the bump he got for the capture of Saddam, nearly the entire poll track for Bush has been downward. Steadily downward. Has any other President shown polling numbers so consistently downward? In every other President I’d wager peaks and valleys, but not a downward slope.

  17. 17.

    Mike B.

    October 7, 2008 at 5:15 pm

    or to whoever else could have run for the Dems that year.

    Hillary. No question about it.

    One more way in which 9/11 changed everything: she’d have run, plowed through the opposition, and crushed Bush otherwise, but she was smart enough to realize that it was an incumbent’s race to lose with terrorism atop the agenda. (Unfortunately for her, by the time the conversation shifted away, she had serious competition.)

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