The Power Point Administration
Apr 24th, 2006 at 10:49 am by Susie
They do love their five-point plans. And when this one doesn’t work, why, they’ll come up with another one:
The new chief of staff at the White House, Josh Bolten, has formed a five point “recovery plan” to restore public confidence in President Bush and improve his poll ratings, Time magazine reports in today’s issue.
One important element of the scheme, according to the magazine, is to emphasize the president’s views on immigration. While Mr. Bolten does not think his support for a guest worker program is popular, he intends to highlight instead the president’s policy to get tough with illegal immigrants by pressing for more funds for Mexican border patrols and he intends to use the new recruits and new hardware as a backdrop for press photo opportunities.
“Think of the visuals,” an anonymous Time source, who is reportedly a proponent of the plan, says. “He can go down to the border and meet with a bunch of guys and go ride around on an ATV.” The magazine reports that Mr. Bolten is aware that the disadvantage to this element of the revamp of the president’s image is that it will discourage Hispanic voters from supporting the Republicans.
“‘Think of the visuals,’ an anonymous Time source, who is reportedly a proponent of the plan, says. ‘He can go down to the border and meet with a bunch of guys and go ride around on an ATV.’”
“…and get his picture taken as he stands, manly-like, in front of a banner reading ‘La misión logró’…”
Heard this old Joe Jackson song this morning… he was talking about Reagan in the 80’s but it still fits
Right and Wrong
Stop everything
I think I hear the President
The Pied Piper of the TV screen
Is gonna make it simple
And he’s got it all mapped out
And illustrated with cartoons
Too hard for clever folks to understand
They’re more used to words like:
Ideology . . .
They’re not talkin’ ’bout right and left
They’re talkin’ ’bout
Right and wrong - do you know the difference?
Right and wrong - do you know the difference?
‘Tween the right and the left and the east and the west
What you know and the things that you’ll never see
So what ya think
You like the Yankees or the Mets this year?
And what about this latest war of words
And what about the Commies?
I saw the news last night
All illustrated with cartoons
So when they come with that opinion poll
They better not use words like
Ideology . . .
Or try to tell me ’bout the issues
Ideology . . .
Whose side are you on?
We’re talkin’ ’bout
Right and wrong - do you know the difference?
Right and wrong - do you know the difference
‘Tween the right and the left and the east and the west
What you know and the things that you’ll never see?
Where are we?
Right and wrong - do you know the difference?
Right and wrong - do you know the difference
‘Tween the right and the left and the east and the west
What you know and the things that you’ll never see?
If you check the SurveyUSA polls in key cities such as Phoenix, Denver, Little Rock and Atlanta, it’s clear anti-immigrant sentiment is very, very high.
It’s a risky strategy longterm, but for states with a history of bigotry plus states directly impacted by large amounts of undocumented immigrants, it’s a fairly safe bet now.
Still, given how the 2004 vote went, he’s still mainly just shoring up his base. It might boost his national numbers some - as will gas price reductions that are likely to occur this Fall.
Not to worry; he’s sure to fubar something else in the interim. The main thing we gotta do is stay out of the path of his careening car so we don’t get run over.