40%: Still kinda high, don't you think?
CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll Presidential Approval Rating
You can click the link and read the story yourself. I'm not going to just copy and paste the story. I'll just add some thoughts.
Bush's approval rating hits 40%. My first thought was "Wow. Still kinda high considering the FEMA fiasco." Turns out, the 40% was actually a low (being only the 2nd time his approval rating hit 40%). Being a Californian Democrat, I must have a skewed opinion of our current Commander-in-Chief. Let's see, he gave the head of FEMA to his lawyer friend who started working at FEMA merely as legal consultant, by-passing one of the LISTED REQUIREMENTS (this is important. They actually list "Emergency Management Experience" in the job requirements for the job, as if it wasn't instinctual) for the job. Warned about the hurricane 3 days before it hit (with New Orleans SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED AS A PROBLEM AREA), FEMA still manages to get caught with its trousers down around the ankles, so to speak. To quote Robin Williams: "A clue, Sherlock." Perhaps we can called Dubya Boss Bush (as in Boss Tweed in the Tammany Hall scandal). Let's look further. Oh, wouldya look at that? The top 3 FEMA officials (prior to Mike Brown's resignation) had close ties to Bush's 2000 presidential campaign. Is FEMA being used as the new Lincoln bedroom? If it was, it sure as hell isn't going to be used like that anymore. I just hope nothing bad happens in the next 3 years. Otherwise, we're going to be outrageously unprepared for... well... anything.
Bush hits new levels of stew-pid. To paraphrase Bill Maher, "I thought we were scraping the bottom of the barrel with Regan but Dubya comes along and proves that if you just lift up the barrel..." (The original joke was from the 80's and Dubya was replaced with Dan Quayle. Somehow, this seems more apropos.) [Of course, considering how we did in 2000 and 2004, we're probably going to lose the 2008 presidential election AGAIN even after Katrina. Figures.]
You can click the link and read the story yourself. I'm not going to just copy and paste the story. I'll just add some thoughts.
Bush's approval rating hits 40%. My first thought was "Wow. Still kinda high considering the FEMA fiasco." Turns out, the 40% was actually a low (being only the 2nd time his approval rating hit 40%). Being a Californian Democrat, I must have a skewed opinion of our current Commander-in-Chief. Let's see, he gave the head of FEMA to his lawyer friend who started working at FEMA merely as legal consultant, by-passing one of the LISTED REQUIREMENTS (this is important. They actually list "Emergency Management Experience" in the job requirements for the job, as if it wasn't instinctual) for the job. Warned about the hurricane 3 days before it hit (with New Orleans SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED AS A PROBLEM AREA), FEMA still manages to get caught with its trousers down around the ankles, so to speak. To quote Robin Williams: "A clue, Sherlock." Perhaps we can called Dubya Boss Bush (as in Boss Tweed in the Tammany Hall scandal). Let's look further. Oh, wouldya look at that? The top 3 FEMA officials (prior to Mike Brown's resignation) had close ties to Bush's 2000 presidential campaign. Is FEMA being used as the new Lincoln bedroom? If it was, it sure as hell isn't going to be used like that anymore. I just hope nothing bad happens in the next 3 years. Otherwise, we're going to be outrageously unprepared for... well... anything.
Bush hits new levels of stew-pid. To paraphrase Bill Maher, "I thought we were scraping the bottom of the barrel with Regan but Dubya comes along and proves that if you just lift up the barrel..." (The original joke was from the 80's and Dubya was replaced with Dan Quayle. Somehow, this seems more apropos.) [Of course, considering how we did in 2000 and 2004, we're probably going to lose the 2008 presidential election AGAIN even after Katrina. Figures.]
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