It’s Monday. I have a bad cold. I feel like, well, the proverbial four letter word for feces. But this morning my spirit was lifted when I read something that was so funny, I just had to pass it along to the rest of you. Ladies and Germs, I give you the Dana Perino, Press Secretary for the White House, and budding stand up comedian:
Spokeswoman Dana Perino was making the case that it’s no surprise that Bush has low poll ratings because he is overseeing an unpopular war. But then her argument went off the tracks.
“Both the president and the vice president have long believed, and it’s a part of what has made them the leaders that they are, which is not to chase popularity polls but to hold themselves to a standard that requires people not to like them,” she said.
Oh, Dana, you jokester you. Leno and Letterman couldn’t have said it any better. Bush and Cheney hold themselves to a standard that requires people not to like them. That’s rich. You clearly are thinking about your next career after this White House gig runs out at the end of this year.
Unless, of course, you were inadvertently telling the truth for once . . . Because, that would explain a lot of things. Oh, and thanks for passing along this bit of information, too:
“And I think that the way that the president looks at it is that there’s – I don’t know, maybe – the media polls a lot. That’s your prerogative; go ahead. And I think that the questions are – that come to us, that every day when there’s a new poll that’s out, and that the numbers don’t change dramatically, we’re expected to express frustration.”
Makes you wonder why President Bush hasn’t passed an executive order banning opinion polls. A man who can spy on all our emails and financial dealings without a warrant, who can start wars on a whim, who can declare anyone a terrorist and detain them without trial for as long as he sees fit, surely can ban pollsters. But then again, how would he know if his master plan to make himself unpopular was succeeding? A real catch 22, that is.