The American public doesn't give a flying shit about Bush or his debate on Social Security. They give a shit about what the talking heads on TV tell them to give a shit about. That's it. They care about a pregnant Britney Spears and the closest they get to politics is bitching about the high price of gas. The American public knows nothing. They are slaves to the MSM and they only know what they are told by the likes of Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity. You know how little they are told. The American Public is not researching and reading shit he says, they don't give a shit. I talk to the American Public everyday, 3 to 4 new people everyday, they don't know shit and they don't want to know shit. They believe the news is the truth and not some infomercial program designed to sell them Reeboks and Liptor.
The second level of informed public gets thier programming from talk radio and without access to opposing view points they see the world in a very linear, black and white fashion. They only get to hear the Republican diatribes and preplanned right-winged attacks. They don't listen to the "other side" because the other side is "liberals" and they hate liberals. They have a very high level of informed ignorance. These are the ones that believe that shit about no assets in Social Security. They are also the one's hounding the Republican Senators and dogging them whenever they have an opposing view. Take Voinovish and the delay of the Bolton nomination. He is getting swarmed with calls and letters by the right-wing attack machine for agreeing that they needed to continue to investigate Bolton. These are the one's that believe this shit and these are the ones that will push the Senators into voting on a Social Security Bill that will completely ruin Social Security.
He also doesn't care if people don't follow him. He may not even understand that people despise him as much as they do. It may be that he doesn't understand that these "Town Hall Meetings" are nothing more than Infomercials. IF he does, then he's a complete and total loser and he knows it. If he doesn't know it, then he's a complete and total loser and his staff knows it. Either way, he believes he's making progress and he damn sure doesn't believe in public opinion polls.
"Well, I -- Look, I mean, all due respect to surveys, I've seen, you know, all kinds of answers in surveys, and you can pretty much figure out, you know, what you want to read in surveys."http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7559029/page/4/He thinks the surveys are propaganda against him. He actually has the balls to say that other are generating propaganda against him! "Absolutely. And that's important for people to -- I know the
propagandists are saying otherwise, and I know there's flyers being put out trying to frighten seniors."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7559029/page/3/So it doesn't matter to him at all if the people don't support his plans, he thinks they do. He's either crazy or stupid and I can't figure out which. Crazy and stupid seems most likely but the public that matters to him is sitting in those Infomercial Town Hall Meetings and they love him and his bold new plan for Social Security. He's fuckin nuts.