I’ll post my take on the Millions More rally tomorrow because I’ve been champing at the bit to say, “I told you so.” Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman is wasting his breath asking black voters to give Republicans a “chance.”
According to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, only 2 percent of African Americans approve of President Bush’s job performance. With a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points, Bush’s real approval rating among blacks could be -1.4 percent.
With the exception of Bush political appointees (and here), paid propagandists and assorted nuts (and here), arguably, there’s not a single black person who likes Bush. That probably explains the popularity of the “George Bush doesn’t like black people” buttons and T-shirts for sale at the Millions More rally.
As Prof. Michael Fauntroy reminds us, what's to like (links added):
The DeLay indictments are another in a long line of recent events demonstrating that the Republican Party in Washington, D.C., from the White House to Capitol Hill, is shot through with corruption and besotted with power. They've looted the federal treasury of billions to pay for an unjustified war in Iraq (and the Coalition Provisional Authority has literally lost $8 billion there), no-bid contracts to their friends is their standard operating procedure, they've jeopardized people all over the country with that ridiculous bankruptcy bill they wrote and passed, they've been wasteful spenders of taxpayers money, and they don't seem to care about the damage their policies are doing to the federal deficit.
Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitutional further reminds us, the party of limited government only recently got its fiscal groove back (link added):
Suddenly, congressional leaders have re-discovered fiscal restraint. After squandering a $2 trillion surplus and creating a tsunami of red ink, Republicans have come to see the benefits of simple arithmetic.
Oddly, their budget epiphany occurred only after they were asked to help the desperate victims of Hurricane Katrina. With Gulf Coast residents who have lost houses, jobs and even loved ones requesting assistance, the GOP wants to halt federal spending. They are threatening a bait-and-switch: They will provide assistance to Katrina's victims (much of it through handouts to business), but they will make up for it by cutting Medicare, food stamps and other programs designed to boost the most vulnerable Americans.
