Pants-On-Fire Pelosi Less Popular Than Vlad The Impaler

June 5, 2009

According to a new Gallup poll, the approval ratings for Nancy Pants-On-Fire Pelosi are actually lower than the approval ratings for former VP Dick Cheney.

I’m not particularly surprised by this. In fact, I don’t understand Cheney’s low ratings except to note that they are the byproduct of being portrayed as evil incarnate for the last nine years by everyone from Tom Brokaw to David Letterman.

But now Cheney is unleashed and, far from being the fire-breathing dragon of popular lore, he is coming across as the reasonable and responsible public servant he is now and always has been. Most importantly, he is being increasingly seen as an adult in a foreign policy world inhabited by obsequious and ignorant children.

Polls are what they are, of course, and they change like the wind. I try not to put too much faith in them, but these findings were just too delicious to resist. The great satisfaction in this, to me, is to know how this must be scrambling the brains of those on the Left. As far as they are concerned, this poll indicates that Snow White is less popular than Darth Vader, that Queen Victoria is somewhere below Adolf Hitler in approval ratings, and that Mother Teresa has a likability quotient below Caligula.

I wonder how they’ll react in a couple of years if St. Barry’s approval ratings drop below Bush’s?


The Goreacle Weighs In

May 15, 2009

Earlier I had blogged that I didn’t have any real problem with Dick Cheney criticizing (politely but firmly) the Obama administration. Now Al “THEY LIED TO US!!! THEY BETRAYED THIS COUNTRY!!!!” Gore weighs in on the subject.

I can’t put the actual dates on it, but Gore may be right that he was mum on the Bush administration for two years. But lest we forget, during that two-year period Al was sitting in a cave, growing a beard, eating a freight car’s worth of potato chips, and scribbling pictures of Manbearpig on the walls. When he emerged he was not merely critical of Bush/Cheney, he was deliriously unhinged. Al Gore is currently one hanging chad away from clanging a bell and wearing a sandwich board that says “Repent! The End of the World Is Near!” He should be taken that seriously.