The President’s Advantage

He may have alienated 66 percent of the country, but he’s still a hero among the remaining one-third.

It’s a truism now: When President Bush says he doesn’t care what the polls say, he means precisely that. The truth is that between ignoring Congress and plundering the budget and alienating the public, he’s always acted like a lame-duck president – it’s because he believes in what he’s doing, and the law gives him enough power to do it. By contrast, Pelosi and Reid have to bribe the Congress with $20 billion to try to get the war stopped, or at least slowed, by sometime (we don’t really know when) next year. This is not a man you can play chicken with.

I have no idea what the Dems going to do. I doubt they do either.