Refusal To See The Handwriting On The Wall

Basti Note: Below are two snippets taken from two different recent news articles from two different sources as well as two different prospectives.

Tis said that, "Those the gods wish to destroy they first make mad." Before the real madness sets in blindness must be the 1st symptom of the onset of the madness.

Anyone who can say the things that Laura Bush and Rove have said in these articles are either blind, mad, or being kept in a mushroom farm or quite possibly they are all three. Bush & Co and Republican's are in for the political drubbing of the 21st century come November 2006,unless the age of miracles isn't over.

I'm of the opinion that Bush's speech tonight will drive stake through the heart of the Republican Party. I could be wrong of course, however on past practice alone I've got at least a 90% chance of being right.

Laura Bush doesn't believe bad polls
Sun May 14, 2006 10:33am ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - First lady Laura Bush said on Sunday she does not believe opinion polls showing her husband's approval ratings at record low levels.

Interviewed on Fox News Sunday, Laura Bush said she did not
think people were losing confidence in President George W. Bush, despite a series of polls showing support for him at its lowest point in his five-year presidency and among the lowest for any president in the past 50 years.

"I don't really believe those polls. I travel around the country. I see
people, I see their responses to my husband. I see their response to me," she said.

"As I travel around the United States, I see a lot of appreciation
for him. A lot of people come up to me and say, 'Stay the course'."

Many recent polls have put Bush's job approval rating below 35 percent. One, the Harris poll, published last Friday, measured his
approval at 29 percent, the first time any survey has put his support below the 30 percent mark. Two other polls published last week put his job approval at 31 percent.

More @ http://tinyurl.com/qapdg reuters

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ROVE: 'WE'RE IN A SOUR TIME. I READILY ADMIT IT.'
THU May 15
2006 12:29:11 ET

After speaking at the American Enterprise Institute in
Washington D.C. on Monday Morning Karl Rove took questions:

QUESTION:
It's clear that the position that the administration's in now is not where it would have liked to have been with a few months to go
before the mid-term elections. I wonder if you could just say what has gone wrong and how do you turn things around before November.

ROVE: Look, we're in a sour time. I readily admit it.

I mean, being in the middle of a war where people turn on their television sets and see brave men and women dying is not something that makes people happy and optimistic and upbeat.

But I'm absolutely confident that -- I heard this same kind of language about the 2004 elections in roughly the March, April, May, June period of June 2004.

We're going to be just fine in the fall
elections.

More @ http://tinyurl.com/86mp drudgereport