MSNBC: Bush, with lowest 2nd term rating since Nixon, in "a feisty mood"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6893732/

WASHINGTON - President Bush is ready to challenge Congress to approve a stack of politically divisive measures he has proposed before without success, from major changes in Social Security to a loosening of the nation’s immigration laws.

Bush will go before Congress and the nation with his annual State of the Union message Wednesday night with the lowest approval rating of any second-term president since Richard Nixon. Yet he is in a feisty mood, insisting that his re-election has given him a mandate for change and political capital to spend in pursuing his agenda.

Even though Republicans control both houses of Congress, Bush’s proposals face major obstacles. Democrats are deeply suspicious of the president, feeling he has ignored them and refused to compromise.

Republicans are wary about Bush’s ambitious Social Security plan because of the political risks of tampering with one of the government’s most popular programs. Facing re-election next year as Bush moves toward lame duck status, GOP lawmakers can’t be counted on for rock-solid unity.

[Stephanie]

1. Feisty? I'll fight him. Bring it on!

But he is too cowardly to fight me, I'm sure. I would whip his butt.

[King Coal]

10. I'd lay 9 to 5 on you Stephanie.

:smoke:

[TomClash]

12. Those odds have already gone down to 5 to 9

[Stephanie]

13. I am 5'6"

But I will smack him down in the ring. Let me at him!

[TomClash]

22. You may be only 5'6" but

you're a New Yorker and we're tough.;-)

[burn the bush]

15. what a fantastic fundraiser Go A Round with Shrub!

It would be very popular.

[aden_nak]

2. Something about them standing by that cardboard smiling soldier is creepy.

[74dodgedart]

5. Who is a more realistic representation of a human, the soldier or Laura?

Does she ever change expression ?

[aden_nak]

9. Actually, I was wondered who better represented courage, the soldier or W.

[burn the bush]

17. he was afraid a real soldier might say something "inappropriate"

like "why do we have to dig through garbage dumps to reinforce our vehicles"

[ashling]

18. I feel sorry for the cardboard soldier

caption: Boobs in Toyland

[booksenkatz]

3. Hey media whores: he's ARROGANT, not "FEISTY"

"Feisty" is a kitty cat that's chasing the catnip mouse around the living room. But Bush's insistence that he has a mandate in the face of such low numbers... it's pure arrogance.



The whores use cute kitty cat words like "feisty" to describe a lying, bloodthirsty warmonger who has drained our treasury, is destroying our social services and infrastructure, has wrecked our clout in the world (no one will ever trust us again), and is killing soldiers and innocents every single day for no reason whatsoever other than his family's greed.

He's just adorable.

[Inland]

7. Good point.

fiesty means willing to fight. Arrogant means that he thinks he shouldn't have to.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

4. I take it that the cardboard soldier is part of the budget cutback?!?

:silly:

[xchrom]

6. the public bought a pig in a poke.

[rjbny62]

8. Dear Mr. Fantasy

We regret to inform you that the reality is....you have no mandate.

Very Truly,
The Reality-Based Community

[coloradodem2005]

11. Well. I'm in a fiesty mood too.

[ernstbass]

14. Sounds like he's ready to go on a drunk!

[DemoTex]

16. More Bu$h bullshit.

[aden_nak]

19. Actually, that's probably how Bush thinks of our soldiers.

Standing at attention, constantly smiling. . . two dimensional non-humans that can be spent and replaced as casually as cardboard props.

[merwin]

20. What a mandate!

[StClone]

21. Cage the "Feisty" monkey

Even real Republicans know he is wrong so who is finally going to cage the feisty little monkey?