by Rich Miles
April 22, 2007
OK, people - I TOLD you this before, and some of you just didn't listen, so here it is AGAIN:
POLLS MATTER!
OK? It's not just something that a bunch of chrome-domed intellectuals do for fun over Bombay martinis - it's a way of collecting information, a way of learning what large numbers of people are thinking on various topics. Get it?
Polls are not the ONLY information we should pay attention to. They're not the results of an infallible and precise science. They are not the weathervanes by which public policy should always be conducted. But they ARE important!
So when our Preznit says that he doesn't listen to or pay attention to what polls say, that he's the Decider and he knows what's best, and it doesn't matter if the polls say he's wrong, what he's really saying that he is not paying attention to the people who HIRED him. He doesn't give a SHIT what you think. He doesn't think you even deserve to have your opinion acknowledged, much less acted on. Here's what he said at one of those rigged "Town Meetings" he holds once in a while to show himself and presumably us that he really is well-liked after all:
Sometimes the polls just go 'poof!'
Why is it so hard for the wingnuts to recognize that he just doesn't give a damn what they think? Or am I perhaps asking the wrong question? Are they so filled with fear and self-loathing that they actually WANT a preznit who tells them they're stupid and that their opinions are of no consequence?
We really gotta get rid of this "unitary executive" thing...
P.S. Here's the article in which I originally told you that Bush doesn't give a shit about you. As Molly Ivins said, when I tell you not to elect a politician from Texas, LISTEN to me!!!
We Don' Need No Stinkin' Will of the People
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Glenn Greenwald had a great post on Salon about some D.C. party at which Sheryl Crowe confronted Rove, who told her "I don't work for you, I work for the American people," and she responded that she IS the American people and he does, indeed work for her.
But of course, ol' Smirky the Chimp is god's annointed. Only ELECTED presidents are accountable to the people, and he wasn't elected, remember?
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