Saturday, March 12, 2005

Bush Hatred Etc...

Gregory Mankiw, opines in the current New Republic that democratic emnity towards's the President's social security privatization plans is induced by "Bush Hatred".
Fair enough, it is hard not to hate someone so untalented and yet so smug at the same time, and that disdain tends to take on some weird aspects-this I freely admit.

Yet there is little serious discussion out there about the policy consequences of what I like to call "Busholatry" ergo Bush Idolatry, literally making a religion out of the incumbent President. However, there really can't be any substantive debate on the matter until we collect some hard facts. Therefore I'd like to propose that some public spirited entity conduct a survey research project to determine just what percentage of the voting public believes that the President is of divine origin. Whether he is thought to be a sort of Messiah or the embodiment of the Godhead, whatever it is, we need those numbers.

I'm guessing that about fourteen percent of the electorate thinks Bush is a modern Prophet and thus divinely wired or else they think he is the Second Coming of Christ Almighty. That number might trend upwards to twenty percent...but probably no higher, although I'm prepared to be surprised here one way or another. Of course designing such a survey research schedule will be a king hell nightmare, but the project is of critical importance for all thinking persons nation-wide.

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