Tres. Secretary Snow: "I could care less what the American People think!"

[wyldwolf]

Yesterday, Treasury Secretary John Snow made it clear that the Bush administration could care less about what the American people think when it comes to President Bush's risky plan to privatize Social Security.

"I remain confident we will see legislation this year," Snow told reporters after delivering a speech today in Portland, Oregon. "I think private accounts are going to be an integral part of any solution. There's only one ultimate poll and that's what the Congress does."

The administration's sales pitch isn't working; the more the American people hear about Bush's privatization plan, the less they like it. So faced with overwhelming opposition to Social Security privatization in poll after poll, the administration is trying a different strategy: contempt for popular opinion.

http://www.democrats.org/blog/

[ananda]

1. the fascist mantra

They really don't hold themselves accountable to real people... they're corporo-fascists.

Sue

[Tux]

2. Go ahead

"I remain confident we will see legislation this year," Snow told reporters after delivering a speech today in Portland, Oregon. "I think private accounts are going to be an integral part of any solution. There's only one ultimate poll and that's what the Congress does."

Once it's robbed Enron or S&L style, let the people decide who will be in Congress in 2006.

[Tempest]

5. SS is the kiss of death

The Repugs won't dare touch it with just over a year before an election.

[dweller]

12. ummm...don't you mean let the voting machines decide?

n/t b/c it's beyond discussion.

The damn machines have to GO! . . . into the harbor in broken bits.


dp

[Spiffarino]

16. Exactly.

Nothing the people want matters as long as they can count on the machines that ensure their election. They have to go or democracy is dead.

[Toots]

24. You may just be onto something. A modern day Boston Diebold Party

It is an act of civil disobedience I could get into.

[lthuedk]

36. The machines' absence will force a paper vote.

[SnowGoose]

25. Let 'em steal another one, particularly...

if everyone knows that public sentiment was hugely in favor of the other side! People will finally get it - it's all been a sham government since 2000.

I'm starting to think that's the only thing that will wake people up. There are few things that piss someone off like realizing they've been suckered.

Then say goodbye to the GOP.... FOREVER.

[rodeodance]

3. Congress will pass SS reform just like they passed Terri S. Bill--that

is what i take from this comment- (Congress being the ultimate poll)--this is really scary!!

[whistle]

4. We had better take our social security money out of the system...

...and run with it before these bastards loot it!!!

[rodeodance]

8. when are people going to WAKE UP!!

[raccoon]

26. I think it'll take the friggin draft

to make most Americans wake up.

If anybody doubted that the powerful gave a hoot in Hades what the American people wanted, Snow's contemptuous (and contemptible) remark says it all.

[0007]

6. Not only is John Snow a fool he's putting head on the chopping block

[rodeodance]

9. nobody has been held accountable for anything in this admin. Why

would Snow be?

[0007]

11. Indirectly Paul O'Neill & George Tenet are the only ones I can think

at this point.

I do think they'll let the wolfs have Tom DeLay.

[webjamn]

29. Paul O'Neill

was ditched because he wouldn't say what the Boy King wanted him to say.

[Kerrytravelers]

7. I could care less what the American People think!

Isn't this the motto of the whole administration?

[yorkiemommie1]

10. sieg heil!

n/t

[brokensymmetry]

13. Chimpy doesn't care?

Oooh, who would have guessed?

[ailsagirl]

14. "could care less" means the opposite of what they mean

I'm assuming they mean "couldn't care less."

SS piratization just ain't gonna fly.

Besides, what does this Snow character know? Is he psychic??

Crooks, liars, scum

[realisticphish]

18. that phrase drives me up the wall

arrrrgh :grr:

[Carolab]

22. Me TOO. EVERYONE gets it wrong! It is could NOT care less. n/t

[ljm2002]

23. nuh-uh

"I could care less" is short for "I could care less than I do already, for all I care!"

[Carolab]

33. Nuh uh yourself.

The correct phrase is I could NOT care less, meaning I care so little about it, it is not possible to care any less.

[ljm2002]

34. So let me get this straight...

...you actually believe there's a correct and an incorrect version of this phrase?

I've heard both versions all my life, and the meaning is always quite clear regardless of the form used.

It's one of the funny things about language and idioms. The literal meaning can be different from the understood meaning.

Anyway, when you get right down to it, I could care less...

:evilgrin: :silly: :evilgrin: :silly: :evilgrin: :silly:

[Carolab]

35. It's not a BELIEF, it's a fact.

Look it up.

In fact, here's a debate on that very subject:

http://www.paulfarag.com/i-could-care-less?PHPSESSID=f264824a115d958de1c4d4840261617f

And here's another article on this subject:

http://www.incompetech.com/gallimaufry/care_less.html

Plus a little history:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ico1.htm

[bunny planet]

15. If they overreach, we must impeach.

(Sorry for the rhyme, Johnny Cochran is in the news today of course).

[applegrove]

17. Like I'm really gonna change my view on my future because some

cocaine addict, controled by sociopaths in the political operative department, told some other guy to act contemptuous of me.

this is the part where the adolescents show themselves and the debth of their convictions

Shallow is as shallow does.

:rofl:

[drm604]

19. Didn't he get his talking points?

"I remain confident we will see legislation this year," Snow told reporters after delivering a speech today in Portland, Oregon. "I think private accounts are going to be an integral part of any solution. There's only one ultimate poll and that's what the Congress does."

Looks like they're off their game a little. He used the word "private", hasn't Frank Luntz declared that word verboten in this discussion?

[Erika]

20. Bush beter face a reality. He is despised.

The harm he has done to this country is unbelieveable. He's slashed eductation, health, veterans benefits, etc.

He is hated in this country. He will go down as the worst president in our history and more speed to that.

[adwon]

21. Who cares what Snow thinks?

The administration sure doesn't. They hired him to lie more effectively than Paul O'Neill, not to think.

[raccoon]

27. the Bush junta wants this dipstick SS privatisation

and they are obviously going to force it down our throats, if we let them. We HAVE to let our Congresspeople know we don't want that crap.

[ewagner]

28. Where did the quote come

from?

I saw it on democrats.org but they didn't reference where they got the quote....

I want to use it in a LTTE but need a mainstream quote source before I do it....

[dweller]

30. just for an answer

:kick:

dp

[wyldwolf]

31. It's linked on the Dem blog

...that I linked to in the original post.

However, here is the source link:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aBu1Zz5rZbMo&refer=top_world_news

[ewagner]

32. Thanks

that's the kind of documentation I was looking for.... :hi: