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Originally posted by GonePhishing
MSNBC:
The survey also included troubling news for Vice President Dick Cheney, whose popularity has slid amid a Defense Department audit of the activities in Iraq of Halliburton Co., the oil services concern he used to lead, and his court battle to prevent revealing the identifies of some of the participants in his task force to develop an energy policy for the Bush administration.
Only 39 percent of respondents felt ?positively? or ?very positively? about Cheney, the lowest level he has ever recorded in the NBC/Journal survey, which has assessed the vice president?s support several times a year since he took office in January 2001.
Cheney?s public image has increasingly come to be seen among Republicans as a possible drag on the ticket, although Bush has been adamant in his insistence that Cheney would not be replaced. A USA Today/CNN poll last month found that 42 percent of Americans ? including 28 percent of Republicans ? thought Cheney should be dropped.
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Polls and voting tallies don't mean shit anymore. The only way Bush could lose is if he did something really fucking stupid and chose Condoleeza Rice or Colin Powell as a running mate.
Just last week, shareholders for Disney voted over 50% no confidence vote for their CEO Eisner. That's the biggest smack down in U.S. business history. Disney said essentially 'fuck what you want' and now they're in more shit than an inmate's dick.
Anybody else woulda gotten fired but noooo, this asshole and his henchmen board of directors still think they're gonna stay on. Wait'll the umpteen million lawsuits hit the floor in a month.
The point being that what 'we' want is irrelevant to the corporate agendas. It ain't the president that's the problem, it's the Legislative branch of government that is the power broker. Congress and the Senate are so susceptible to bribes, threats, terrorism that they'll do anything to save their skins.
It's a fucking shame too. Until our Judicial and Executive branches put foot to ass to the Legislative branch we'll continue to be in shit like this.
Remember when Reagan tried to do it and they dogged him no end. He fought tooth and nail against the legislators and had a weapon other president's didn't: Rich people.
That shook shit up real quick didn't it?
Clinton on the other hand had more gangsters on his side than any other president except for Nixon and Kennedy.
When Congress and the Senate are put into a position of doing what they're supposed to do instead of what they're threatened to do then things work right.