Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
A Poll I’d Like To See
Oh, NOES. A poll has come out about President Bush’s approval rating, and it’s oh so devastating. A new record low of 31%.
President Bush’s approval rating has slumped to 31% in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the lowest of his presidency and a warning sign for Republicans in the November elections.
The survey of 1,013 adults, taken Friday through Sunday, shows Bush’s standing down by 3 percentage points in a single week. His disapproval rating also reached a record: 65%. The margin of error is +/- 3 percentage points.
Rule #1 of my existence is that when I’m accused of something, I wanna be guilty. Liberals regularly accuse me of setting up “straw men,” so let me indulge in doing so by simply drawing the conclusion they seem to want me to draw: That George W. Bush, he sure is screwing everything up. His approval rating is down and down and down, and that really means a lot. I mean, with Bush it does, anyway. It’s a black mark against him, against his whole stinkin’ cabinet, against that goofy plan to invade Iraq, against his radical right-wing agenda…blah blah blah.
Fair characterization?
Well if it is, the fourth paragraph of the story throws a little bit of a rake handle in the ol’ bicycle spokes…
Bush’s fall is being fueled by erosion among support from conservatives and Republicans. In the poll, 52% of conservatives and 68% of Republicans approved of the job he is doing. Both are record lows among those groups.
Hrrmmm…it would appear the tax cuts and dead terrorists are part of the solution, not part of the problem. Part of the problem, might be amnesty for illegals…and the Dubai port deal…and the characterization of Minutemen as “vigilantes”…and maybe even launching of yet-another-fruitless-investigation into price fixing at the pump.
Oh, many among us will disagree with that. But I’m sure everybody would agree, that to eliminate any uncertainty about same, would be in our best interest, no?
So here’s a poll I’d like to see:
Wouldn’t that be a far more useful poll? It’s a midterm election season, after all. If the Democrats have a useful agenda to offer, let’s see how popular it’s going to be. So far, all I’ve heard about them is what they don’t want to be. I have no idea what they would do if they got a House majority, and neither has anybody else. If they’re having trouble making up their minds, let’s conduct a poll that will help them. Maybe the answers would be surprising and maybe they wouldn’t. Couldn’t hurt to find out!
I have more.
I mean, since 1973 we’ve been arguing about that. We’ve got a lot of pollsters who have a lot of time to ask the same question over and over and over again…only when the President’s numbers are headed down, they’re pretty quiet when the President’s numbers are going up…and they can’t ask one single stinkin’ question, about what “everybody” wants, even though the political pundits argue about it non-stop for a third of a century.
Let’s fix that.
Let’s see, what else can we do. Ah…
Once again: That is the argument. That is IT. We love to do polls, let’s do a poll on that one.
Oh but we argue about deep, philosophical stuff too don’t we. Let’s get philosophical:
I mean, let’s give “America” a voice. Let’s find out what The Will Of The People is.
Those are four questions I’ve heard people arguing about a lot, both around water coolers, and on Sunday morning talk shows. We spend a lot of hot air on them. Each of those four questions, enjoys the “benefit” of white-hot, sometimes-angry, huffing-puffing passionate advocates on BOTH sides. People have strong feelings about them, yet I never see a poll question about them…not a single one. EVER. Personally, I doubt like hell that in any of the four cases, X percent would arise to so much as the double-digits. But the poll remains un-run. So what do I know?
Curious, isn’t it, that everyone wants to give a voice to America. But only a fill-in-the-blank kind of a voice. Nobody wants to go to the great unwashed masses to find out what the questions should be.
I have more where those came from.
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