You’ve been President just over one year. You’ve achieved nothing, and while the percentage of people who like you hasn’t fallen much (around 10%), the number of people who don’t like you is skyrocketing. Every candidate you’ve campaigned for has lost, but the one member of your party who won a race not only didn’t seek your help, he was endorsed by the Republicans… and he promised to vote against you.
What do you do?
Try even harder in the next year, of course! “What the president will not do is let this moment slip away. He hopes to have Republican support in doing so — but he is going to move forward on health reform.” Oh, and you admit that you and your predecessor are alike in a lot of ways. And you call your detractors terrorists. And you have your Treasury Secretary (who can’t figure out TurboTax) say that your spending money like a drunken sailor in a Hong Kong bar will “never” hurt your credit rating.
I… I… oh, blood and martyrs. (shakes head) You would think that his approval rating dropping like a thermometer in an icebox would be a hint that his ideas were crap, but apparently not. But, hey, at least he’s not Bush, right?
(H/T Uncle, Robb, Gun Free Zone )
