Ramming And Scoring

In short, Republicans like Graham are insisting that the majority-elected Obama must temper his ambitions because of fluctuating and ambiguous polls about health care. So what if Obama's approval rating has never fallen below 47 percent in the daily Gallup tracking polls. Contrast this with Bush in 2001, who took office with only 51 percent of the American people in a CBS poll believing that he was elected legitimately. But because Bush was (wait for it) a "conviction politician," he was entitled to pursue his expansive and expensive (in budget terms) agenda starting with massive tax cuts. As Rove writes with almost an audible sneer in his words that the Democrats "were surprised that he didn't come to them on bended knee."