Holed Below the Waterline
The Beginning of the End for Usurper Boy and His Junta
By Tamara Baker

Tuesday. May 29, 2001 -- SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA (APJP) -- Gee, I haven't seen Shrubbie's poll results on the evening news lately. I wonder why?

Used to be that when Clinton was in office, every new day would have a new poll, or so it seemed. The slightest slippage in Clinton's numbers would be hailed as proof that America was finally starting to turn on him, and his gains were generally ignored.

But with a Republican in illegal occupation of the White House, the mainstream corporate press' fondness for polls (said fondness for which, in a class case of projection, they tried to pin on Clinton) has suddenly cooled. I haven't heard much at all on network TV about Bush's numbers over the past two months.

This is very interesting, because the latest CNN poll shows that things aren't exactly as rosy as they could be for the Commander-in-Thief.

His job approval rating still hovers a touch over 50%, but his disapproval ratings have shot up from 24% in February to 38% in May. This is in line with the other legitimate major polls such as Gallup, which all show his negative numbers well over the 30-percent mark -- and growing. This is despite the corporate press' 24/7 efforts to spin everything to his satisfaction. As things stand now, even with the corporate media backing him to the hilt in exchange for relaxed FCC anti-trust regulations, fewer than half of all Americans would themselves trust him -- and fewer than half would vote for him.

Again, I have to emphasize: This is all happening despite the refusal of the corporate broadcast media to emphasize -- or even mention in passing -- certain important truths.

Truths such as:

• the fact that only the deregged parts of California are suffering from both high energy prices and blackouts
• if California's economy is allowed to tank due to price-gouging by Bush's energy-industry buddies, the rest of the US will follow suit
• the Bush regime just gave $43 million and a pat on the back to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan even as the Taliban prepares to implement their own version of the Holocaust on Afghanistan's Hindu population
• gasoline supplies in California are plentiful, so plentiful that they're running out of places to store it, so plentiful that even conservative locales like Orange County are calling into question what look to be artificially-high pump prices in the Golden State.

Even with truths like these being hidden or downplayed, Americans are slowly beginning to get the picture. And as they do, it will become obvious to everyone that Shrubbie and his minders have holed their own junta below the waterline.

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