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Americans are always skeptical of politicians, but the financial meltdown has made it clear they no longer believe much of anything Washington's current batch of news-cycle-obsessed, responsibility-dodging wolf criers have to say. After eight years of George W. Bush's supremely confident but frequently wrong statements about everything from WMD to the inherent goodness of Vladimir Putin--and after former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan confessed the irrelevance of truth to his p.r. strategy--his television appearances are now widely ignored, and his approval ratings have touched an all-time low of 23%, according...
...George W. Bush has never been reluctant to frame policy debates in moral terms, targeting an "axis of evil," casting tax cuts as the removal of "unfair burdens" on hardworking people, calling tariff reduction a "moral imperative." But THRIFT is one virtue he never invokes, and a restoration of restraint is a strain of conservatism he seldom promotes. In fact, it was after the most tragic day in modern U.S. history, when Bush urged people who wanted to help to "go shopping," that profligacy officially replaced prudence as a patriotic duty...
...Staff writer Emily W. Cunningham can be reached at ecunning@fas.harvard.edu
...Lone Star State echoed with disgust for it. So great was the outrage that Chet Edwards - whom Speaker Nancy Pelosi once touted for Obama's Vice President - may be dogged by his yes vote on the campaign trail. Edwards, a popular Democratic incumbent in President George W. Bush's home district, was one of nine Representatives out of Texas' 32-person delegation to vote for the bill. (Even four of the five Texas Republicans whom Bush called personally voted against it.) Meanwhile, Democrat Lloyd Doggett, from the Austin area, has found himself in the unusual position of being hailed...
...stark indication of just how much the political landscape has changed over the past four years, white women now favor Obama by three points, 48%-45%; in 2004, George W. Bush won the same demographic by 11 points against John Kerry. Where Bush carried married women by 15 points in that election, 57%-42%, Obama now leads by 6 points, 50%-44%, a 21-point shift...