http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/28/bush.interview/

(CNN) -- President Bush said in a Tuesday interview that he wasn't concerned about his low approval ratings, and he discussed how he told Vice President Dick Cheney, who was shaken by his hunting accident earlier this month, to "share it with the American people."

"If I worried about polls, I wouldn't be doing my job," Bush told ABC's Elizabeth Vargas in the interview, which aired on "World News Tonight."

The president's approval rating dropped to 34 percent in a CBS News poll released Monday. CNN/USA Today/Gallup polls taken since October have put his approval ratings in the high 30s to mid-40s.

"I fully understand that when you do hard things, it creates consternation at times," Bush said. "I've been up in the polls, and I've been down in the polls -- it's just part of life in the modern era. I think the American people -- I know the American people want somebody to stand on principle, make decisions and stand by them and lead this world toward a more peaceful tomorrow, and I strongly believe we're doing that. And I enjoy it. It's a fantastic opportunity."

He also said he feels he has "ample capital" despite his sagging polls.

...more...

Can this sack of shit become more out of touch???

I mean, did he check his word of the day calendar?

to this administration. That quote about a land war in Asia, for instance.

It will be much closer to the truth. He's "Georgie through the Looking Glass" after all. Does not live in the same world we do.

and after all the war profiteering that's been funneled back to Carlylse Group - Daddy's got 'ample capital' indeed!

Maybe "ampule capital"?

Or "ammo capital"? That'd go well with the whole "popular wartime president" shtick he'd surely like to revisit.

...and * is not there yet--witness his demonstrated ability to bring party dissenters more or less to heel.

But, boy, does that capital appear to be eroding quickly. Cross your fingers.

from the BFEE & crony networks. Little of it is political.

He's got billions on hand for all his schemes when they decide on a "market correction".

Gonna keep doing whatever I want, no matter what they say. He doesn't get it does he???? This is OUR COUNTRY - and it's time he's made to understand that. IMPEACH.

sadly.

Everyone in the whole friggin world knows that Iraq is falling into civil war and this idiot goes on TV and denies it. He is completely clueless.

Capital? He has 'ample capital' to spend?
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Jesus Christ.

</shaking head in disbelief>

This is nothing new. Chimpy McDumbass is just blustering to the press so he can appear 'tough' when everybody knows he's a chicken-shit boy king.

I'm sure W thinks he can get away with it. Sure, just look at rulers like George III, Czar Nicholas and Louis XVI. Mussolini and Ceascescu also come to mind...

They LOVE a man who can't admit he made a mistake. Bush is just like them.

POWER with Political Capital.

as many people on the Hill anymore with those fabulous poll numbers and all that "political capital" at his disposal these days. Or when he sends kkkarl out to threaten republi-CONs hoping for reelection that they won't get any White House help if they don't do as they're told. That's gonna go over better and better with the GOP incumbents - MORE OF WHOM are now seeing their necks securely on the block.

Go ahead, george. Spend that "political capital" for all you're worth! See george spend. Spend, george, spend! And see how little buys him, anymore. Inflation's a bitch, isn't it, george?

Blivet: Definition...10 pounds of the stink in a 5 pound bag.

somebody to stand on principle, make decisions and stand by them and lead this world toward a more peaceful tomorrow..."

That's right, George. Any ideas who we could get that would do that instead of just talking about it and doing something else?

......He told Vargas he hopes that his presidency, in retrospect, will be viewed as an "agent for peace."

Just not very fricking much capital, that's all.

:eyes:

Or did he say "constipation" and have it edited out for him?

Chimpeach!

one of the creepy things (besides the garbage coming out of Bush's mouth) was to watch Bush squirm and brag in front of the pretty young woman who was interviewing him.

Ick. Not only is he a smug moron, he's an adolescent smug moron.

"Ample capital" means the GOP majorities have given him a whole bookful of blank checks and as long as he allows them to flood their districts/states with pork barrel projects, they will allow him to continue cutting taxes for the uber rich and waste more hundreds of billions on his obscene, blood-soaked foreign adventures.

He snubs the WH Press Corps
He snubs Congress
He snubs Senate
He snubs his own Scrubs
All that snubbing must be backlash from Laura's snubbing of "The" Bush with no "ROOT" LOL

I remember that during the height of the impeachment his numbers were in the low 70's.

http://www.pollkatz.homestead.com/

click on Nixon-Clinton-Bush: A Comparison

Here are a few which might apply, courtesy of www.thefreedictionary.com:

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cap·i·tal

2.
a. Wealth in the form of money or property, used or accumulated in a business by a person, partnership, or corporation.
b. Material wealth used or available for use in the production of more wealth.
c. Human resources considered in terms of their contributions to an economy: " swift unveiling of his . . . plans provoked a flight of human capital" George F. Will.

4. Capital stock.

5. Capitalists considered as a group or class.

6. An asset or advantage: "profited from political capital accumulated by others" Michael Mandelbaum.



Usage Note: The term for a town or city that serves as a seat of government is spelled capital. The term for the building in which a legislative assembly meets is spelled capitol.

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;)

And then began running a "capital deficit" in the way that he handled Katrina.

spying on your enemies and then blackmailing them into doing what you want with a side of "remember the anthrax"?

:shrug:

Whatever.

However, I don't think the American people care much about either one of those right now.

Oh, bullshit. He doesn't understand anything.

I have ample capitalists backing me up so I will go on screwing the American people. That's why polls don't matter...:evilfrown: :mad: :puke: :eyes: :crazy:

ample capitol of the nation. It's merely a typo. :evilgrin:

When he leaves office, he'll just have a balance owed on the card!

Yesterday, somebody on the radio was saying that Cheney's approval rating is so low, he's going to owe US soon!

... with a CAPITAL "D".

or perhaps obstinate and ignorant - of course it may be just plain delusional - wonder if he is still hearing the divine voices he used to give credit to for his poor decisions, his "higher" father sent him on a mission and they didn't even call in the "Blues Brothers". If it were not so sad that many people in the world have been hurt by his poor decisions, we could laugh at his stupidity all day.

doesn't care what the majority of the American people want.. Take back the House and Senate in the next election and impeach his ass in spring of 07'.

"I know the American people want somebody to stand on principle, make decisions and stand by them and lead this world toward a more peaceful tomorrow, and I strongly believe we're doing that. And I enjoy it. It's a fantastic opportunity."

The man is a pathological liar, along with being a sociopath...

And throughout history, when a leader falls this far from reality...then alienates even his closest allies....

The 'writing' is on the wall...has been for some time. Unfortunately Shrub doesn't read much, OR watch TV.

He's saying he has captitol...meaning he has DC and he doesn't intent to give it up, no matter the numbers.

and that being President is "a fantastic opportunity." Really think about that. When I hear him on the news, I am always sidetracked by that terribly idiotic manner of his, so I don't really hear what he is saying ( which is a good thing, I think). When I actually read - slowly read - what he is saying, I am utterly amazed. WTF does "it's just part of life in the modern era" mean? He sounds like he has just been hired to sell vacuum cleaners at a Wal-Mart after flunking out of some unaccredited technical school. Does someone actually get paid to write this stuff for him or is he talking off the top of what passes for a mind?

I think W_rong DOES have ample political capital with the one and only group he gives a shit about - his core backers.

Remember, he thinks in pure black & white terms and * has stated on multiple occasions we're either with him or against him, and if we're against him, we're terrorists or supporters of terrorists (which are effectively the same thing to him). He's out to extirminate terrorists, so he doesn't care what those who oppose him think because they're terrorists. He only cares what those who support him think, and they support him and think just like him.


Personally, I think he's convinced himself that he's the second coming and that those who don't follow him are bound for hell.

He'll do what he wants not what the American people want! This is the biggest asshole that ever walked on this fucking earth.:thumbsdown:

What has capital got to do with poll numbers?

he believes in fairy tales. or he pretends to, while fleecing his victims.

business man. He talks about "spending capital", but any first year business student knows you "invest" capital.

for a dictator. He calls it "Commander and Chief" and he thinks it applies to "civilians" as well. This makes him the Eric Cartmen of the oval office. "Na Uh I can't do what I want. Respect my Authoritiiiii!"

be paying to rebuild Iraq, not us.

that the morally bankrupt one thinks he has ample capital.

Perhaps he should use some of that ample capital to cure him and his friends of their Cranio-Rectal Immersion Syndrome.

DBDB

There's no opposition party!

The Dems bend over and give him what he wants every time. He's never lost yet, and the DINO's aim seems to be to make sure he never does. He has carte blanche.

If I were him, I'd keep pushing the envelope. In fact, he's be foolish not to. The more extreme he gets, the sorrier the Dems look.

this man-chimp is insane.

that he has a lot of money...

time. Only the blue 50's are easy to keep straight.

Let's hope he doesn't roll any more doubles. We'll have to put him in jail.

:puke:

And the problem is they're so stupid that they would go along with him
just because they are brainwashed into thinking "But it's the Lawrd's will"!

This worries me.

but the reality is that Bush is only going down.

And not only in the way that Jeff Gannon enjoys.

in strictly financial sense. It is the ownership interest in a business.

Now if your liabilities, ie debts both long and short term, exceed your assets both long and short term, then you have negative Capital.

Capital is usually composed of 2 kinds:

1)Invested capital, ie money invested by sole proprietors or Common stock for corporations

and

2)Retained earnings, the accummulated earnings of the business retained in the business.

Dividends to stockholders decrease retained earnings. Sole proprietors can draw down retained earnings or withdraw some of their initial investment.

Okay, so I'm a CPA in one of my lives.

Now chimpie has been borrowing the heck out of the rest of the world, has been running enormous deficits, and so only has negative capital.

Speaking more figuratively he is even more devoid of positive capital.

He only ever had any right after Sept 11, but then proceeded to squander that.

I heard a CNN correspondent say it was embarrassing that in the US 6 months after Katrina so many people have nowhere to go.

Bye bye middle class. :(

Too bad this time it's the country.

To my dying day I will believe that the majority of the decent Americans did all they could to vote for Kerry and that if they were allowed to vote or all their votes were actually counted, there is no way Bush was elected. None. Zero. Zip. I felt that way on 11/2/2004 and I've seen nothing to change my mind. And the only capital this asshole as ever had is thievery and lies. Every goddman day another lie.

And no, I don't want whatever he's smoking because it's obviously fried his brain.

Hekate

Someone should run a poll asking if they feel the President is doing his job.

Bush is so far out there on Portsgate that I think this is the last deal that he has to make. His Last Stand for UAE, Pappa Bush and The Carlyle Group.

this childi$h psychopathic torturer to "lead this world"

"I mean, look at the map. I'm living in one!"

:eyes:

but he feels like Rockefeller?

:eyes:

But even THAT, is fading...quick.

Now he's just delusional.

Which is worse?

He's basically saying he has the support of the people when the polls prove that he doesn't. That's the same thing as having only 50 bucks in the bank and you tell yourself you still have enough money to pay your rent.

HE ISN"T DOING HIS JOB! Sonofabitch...

"I don't give a shit what you think because I'm rich. Nanny-nanny boo-boo!"