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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Bush acts on what he believes is the right thing to do and has been unwilling to compromise.
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yes, regardless of how much money it makes the people in his administration and the firms who contributed to his presidential campaign coffers, he's stuck by his guns and made sure to keep the no-bid contracts flowing out to halliburton, the firm making tamiflu, and the various republican-owned and operated shock-troop private companies like blackwater.
if only the rest of us could be paid so handsomely for holding our beliefs.
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Originally Posted by Seaver
Yeah what an uprising. What's the Dem. Congress approval rating? 11%
Yeah, watch out for the title wave people.
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i'm actually reading 38%, which is 10% more than the rating of the republicans in congress.
think about it. the republicans aren't going to support the democrats in congress pretty much whatever happens, so basically the max rating for the dems in congress is 50 percent. from there the ratings totally depend on what the democrats and independents in the country think of the job the congressional democrats are doing, and many many democrats and independents are frustrated with democrats' inaction on the war, which is why the ratings are so low. if the democrats started standing up for what they believe in, their ratings would shoot up. that's the movement i'm talking about, it's reflected in polls of popular opinion -- where the war and other current government policies are RESOUNDINGLY unpopular and people are begging for change -- not in polls of congressional popularity.