Has President Bush Lost His Mojo? (wouldn't it be GRAND)

[rodeodance]

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=730617

> Has President Bush Lost His Mojo?
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> Four months into his second term Bush's approval ratings are plummeting, his signature policy initiative is tanking and his congressional allies are revolting. Bush entered his second term like a lion, declaring, "I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it." But in yesterday's spring press conference Bush emerged as a lamb. Having spent his political capital, he unveiled a new, far less ambitious strategy: blame Congress. Will that be the ticket to turn around his political fortunes?
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> SOCIAL SECURITY STALLED: Bush has spent most of his second term pushing his agenda of Social Security privatization and benefit cuts. During March and April, administration officials participated in a staggering 166 events, conducted 500 radio interviews and placed opinion columns in newspapers with a combined circulation of nearly 8 million readers. The result? According to a recent CBS News poll 62 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Bush is handling the Social Security issue; just 26 percent approve. On the core issue of carving out private accounts, just 36 percent of Americans think it's a good idea; 56 percent think it's a bad idea.
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> THE STEM CELL REBELLION: In his first four years in office, President Bush didn't veto a single bill. This year, Bush has vowed to veto a bill that would expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The rare threat had no impact. A bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives voted to approve the bill. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) predicts the Senate will pass the bill with enough support to override Bush's veto.
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> THE BOLTON BOONDOGGLE: President Bush's nominee to be ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, couldn't garner a positive recommendation from a committee controlled by his own party. Even now, his confirmation remains an uncertainty, in part because of impassioned opposition by Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH).
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> THE SCHIAVO SCRAMBLE:.......

[SnowGoose]

1. He never had mojo.

The only thing he had was the media and voting machine comapanies in his pocket.

[uppityperson]

7. Exaclty. Couldn't lose it as never had it.

[CottonBear]

2. We can hope but I'm afraid the clueless sheeple still love him.

:scared:

[Serial Mom]

3. oh, that would be so great , as long as he

doesn't return to find it again! It would scare me too if his baby bro' tried to retrieve it!

[smoogatz]

4. Americans are a little slow

but I think it's finally sinking in that the Republicans are, in fact, the party of BAD ideas. Gutting Social Security, telling Michael J Fox and Christopher Reeve to go fuck themselves, and trying to criminalize a severely brain-damaged woman's right to die with a little dignity are all colossally stupid moves. The war drags on (what are we doing there, again?); the debts, deficits and imbalances have reached truly staggering proportions; the stench of corruption and deceit drifts from one end of Washington, D.C. to the other. Eventually, the American people, in their wisdom, will get it. I think it's already begun--with no help, of course, from the corporate media.

[manic expression]

5. He's never had any mojo...

You could say that he's had the American people's almost endless gullibility, a lack of real opposition for many of his disgusting actions and a RW media...but he's never had any mojo.

[rkc3]

6. Yesterday, when he announced he was not a lame duck....

it proved to us that he is a lame duck.

Everyone now believes he has jumped the shark. Let's hope the radical RW, bible-thumping, fristian nutters are on the motorcycle with him.

[smoogatz]

8. It was the fristians who put him on those water-skis

in the first place. Turns out, most of the country has little use for the hard-core evangelical agenda. 22% may very well have voted for "moral values," but means 78% had other priorities. But I love the use of "jumped the shark" in connection to Bush. Perfect.

[rkc3]

9. Since his press conferences are the same as bad TV - the term fits well.