{"id":7459,"date":"2006-05-19T13:09:12","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T17:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7459"},"modified":"2006-05-19T13:09:12","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T17:09:12","slug":"it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-unsettled-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-unsettled-is\/","title":{"rendered":"It depends on what the meaning of ‘unsettled’ is"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of my ongoing series in which Republicans try to explain why [tag]Bush[\/tag] is so wildly [tag]unpopular[\/tag] with the American electorate, today we hear directly from the disliked man himself, the [tag]president[\/tag]<\/a>. NBC’s [tag]David Gregory[\/tag], who is not known for asking softball questions of anyone, sat down with Bush yesterday and asked about his national support (or lack thereof).<\/p>\n

Gregory: “In the most recent [tag]survey[\/tag], your disapproval rating is now one point lower than Richard Nixon’s before he resigned the presidency. You’re laughing, but …<\/p>\n

Bush: “I’m not laughing, I just …”<\/p>\n

Gregory: “Why do you think that is?”<\/p>\n

Bush: “Because we’re at war, and war unsettles people. We got — listen, we’ve got a great economy. We’ve added 5.2 million jobs in the last two-and-a-half years. But … people are unsettled. They don’t look at the economy and say life is good. They know we’re at war and I’m not surprised that people are unsettled because of war.”<\/p>\n

Gregory: “But they’re just not unsettled, sir. They disapprove of the job you’re doing.”<\/p>\n

Bush: “That’s [tag]unsettled[\/tag].”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, if the public disapproves of the president’s job performance, it’s our<\/i> fault? We’re unsettled because the war he’s mismanaged from the start is going poorly?<\/p>\n

And if it’s really Iraq that’s dragging Bush’s [tag]poll[\/tag] numbers down, why is it that the public also strongly disapproves<\/a> of the president’s handling of the economy, ethics in government, taxes, immigration, energy policy, and the federal budget deficit?<\/p>\n

The video<\/a> is worth watching to see how just unconcerned the man really is. I’m not in his shoes, but if I had support like this, I wouldn’t be laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of my ongoing series in which Republicans try to explain why [tag]Bush[\/tag] is so wildly [tag]unpopular[\/tag] with the American electorate, today we hear directly from the disliked man himself, the [tag]president[\/tag]. NBC’s [tag]David Gregory[\/tag], who is not known for asking softball questions of anyone, sat down with Bush yesterday and asked about his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}