May 24 2005
Listening to Your Constituents
With Bush’s numbers continuing to tank on the issue, this is what the social security ‘debate’ is coming to:
President Bush, facing an uphill battle on Social Security in Congress, worked Tuesday to persuade moderate Republicans to resist pressure from constituents and support his ideas for changing the nation’s retirement system. - AP
I can just hear the President now: “Heck Senator, totally ignore what the people who elected you think and support my plan. Do you think those ordinary people should influence how you vote? Hah! They aren’t even any of my, err, ‘pioneer’ supporters!”
But then again, Bush has continually ignored the mainstream issues affecting the vast majority of American’s, so why should he expect Congressmen and Congresswomen to do any different? When 7 in 10 people disagree with how you’re handling an issue, and yet you press on in spite of that, it shouldn’t be labeled ’steadfast’ or ‘resolute’. It should be labeled what it is, ‘out of touch’, ‘bull-headed’, and ‘arrogant’.
Where did he say that?! I don’t see any Bush quote in that AP article that Bush said that tried to persuade moderate Repubs from listening to their constituents.
A little help here .. can somebody point me to the text of his speech where he tried to persuade lawmakers from listening to their constituents?
Bueller? … Bueller?… Anyone?
Yeah, I’ve wondered the same thing about the media making things up like that.. Check out this similiar situation I wrote about last year.
Not that I can speak for the reporter, or am defending that lead, but what he probably should have said to make it more clear was something like, “With 7 out of 10 Americans disagreeing with the him, the President asked congress to trust him on his Social Security plan anyways..”
I agree with your rewording. Sounds much better … maybe you should become an AP writer.
My point of posting was that I wish you wouldn’t link to these types of articles (aka baseless/factless - similar to the CNN one). It just makes people question your motives.
I’m beginning to distrust the media even more than I have in the past - and that’s saying something. Does anybody care about the truth anymore? It’s really disheartening.