Propoganda on the rocks
New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans
Americans say President Bush does not share the priorities of most of the country on either domestic or foreign issues, are increasingly resistant to his proposal to revamp Social Security and say they are uneasy with Mr. Bush's ability to make the right decisions about the retirement program, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
The poll underscores just how little headway Mr. Bush has made in his effort to build popular support as his proposal for overhauling Social Security struggles to gain footing in Congress. At the same time, there has been an increase in respondents who say that efforts to restore order in Iraq are going well, even as an overwhelming number of Americans say Mr. Bush has no clear plan for getting out of Iraq.
On Social Security, 51 percent said permitting individuals to invest part of their Social Security taxes in private accounts, the centerpiece of Mr. Bush's plan, was a bad idea, even as a majority said they agreed with Mr. Bush that the program would become insolvent near the middle of the century if nothing was done. The number who thought private accounts were a bad idea jumped to 69 percent if respondents were told that the private accounts would result in a reduction in guaranteed benefits. And 45 percent said Mr. Bush's private account plan would actually weaken the economic underpinnings of the nation's retirement system.
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Right now for the first time the majority of the nation is questioning Bush' motives. They are calling out his bullmeep on Social Security. They don't agree with his domestic policies. All of his propoganda is coming to nothing, his own party is calling him out on it. He still has a lot of support, but for right now, his mandate is evaporating.
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Mar03 '05
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I've been waiting a while for the fiscal conservatives to rebel against this administration. Their meep are just as red and sore as progressives after the last four years.
Mar03 '05
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It will result in nothing.
The Ann Coulters of the world will find a way to denigrate the naysayers as Clinton-era communist buffoons, which will not disprove their arguments in the absolute slightest -- not that any of the Bush zombies and the undecideds will notice.
Mar03 '05
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without the fear of losing a reelection, i really don't see anything changing. we are still fully hipdeep in the meepheap and no one's any smarter, they're just a little less comfortable.
Mar03 '05
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The administration won't change, but Congress actually has to get their hands bloody to implement all of this, and they most certainly do have to worry about re-election. It'll be interesting.
Mar03 '05
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Luckily, we'll have Bush's hand-picked right-wing judges in place making Christian decisions about the republic with lifetime terms who don't have to worry about re-election.