October 18, 2007

Bush: 'I am revelant! I am!!!!"

"Ah'm vetoin' stuff! See?!" Dan Froomkin:

A defensive President Bush insisted that he was still relevant in a news conference dominated by his bitter complaints about the Democratic Congress.

Asked how he found himself vetoing a children's health insurance bill that had passed Congress with bipartisan support, Bush insisted that using a veto is "one way to ensure I am relevant."

When a reporter followed up and asked Bush if he felt he was losing leverage and relevance, Bush replied: "I've never felt more engaged and more capable of getting the American people to realize there's a lot of unfinished business."

Which, let's be blunt, is hard to believe.

Everything you need to know about [yesterday's] hastily scheduled press conference was telegraphed by John Whitesides of Reuters: "Deepening unhappiness with President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress soured the mood of Americans and sent Bush's approval rating to another record low this month, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. . . .

"Bush's job approval rating fell to 24 percent from last month's record low for a Zogby poll of 29 percent."

Bush has now tied President Nixon's all-time low approval rating as measured by the Gallup Poll.

Paging David Broder... The jerk store is on the line - they're out of you...

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