feh.

[sisyphusshrugged]

Gotta love Adam Nagourney and Janet Elder

56% +/- 3% of people polled are "optimistic" about the next four years:

After enduring a brutally fought election campaign, Americans are optimistic [emph mine] about the next four years under President Bush , but...

Two thirds of respondents, including 51% of Republicans, disagree with his priorities on tax cuts v. the deficit, 66% think business has too much influence over the administration, by 48% to 40% americans believe that four more years of Bush will divide the country further, 51% believe Bush will not preserve social security, and "a majority" think abortion should remain legal and that the country is going in the wrong direction. "A plurality" says we shouldn't have gone in to Iraq.

...have reservations about central elements of the second-term agenda he presented in defeating Senator John Kerry, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.

At a time when the White House has portrayed Mr. Bush's 3.5-million-vote victory as a mandate, the poll found that Americans are at best ambivalent about Mr. Bush's plans to reshape Social Security, rewrite the tax code, cut taxes and appoint conservative judges to the bench.

At best ambivalent.

Yeah, you could say that, I guess.

Full fathom five thy lede lies
Of its bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were its eyes:
Nothing of it that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring its knell:

Ding-dong.

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WASHINGTON, D.C.-- The clause inserted into new tax legislation that would have allowed for certain members of Congress to view any American’s tax returns is not the only "conspiracy theory" flying around the Capital this week, as a second paragraph hidden away in the bill was discovered by congressional aides today... The 'Draft the Poor' policy found at paragraph 6, subsection 4, if passed, would have made all Americans who cannot afford adequate health care or a home eligible for a mandatory military draft to bolster a dwindling U.S. military that has become increasingly stretched beyond its limits.


...just kiddin'! http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i7006

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well, hey, celebrity - I wasn't sure you were still speaking to me since I forced public notice upon you...