Bush is so full of shit.

So CNN is on in the background in my office, and Bush is giving a press conference. I catch this snippet from the Leader of the Free World:

"You know I don't follow the polls."

Whaaaa?

Are they still pulling that line after Washington Monthly busted them on it 2002?

President Bush doesn't believe in polling---just ask his pollsters.

A Washington Monthly analysis of Republican National Committee disbursement filings revealed that Bush's principal pollsters received $346,000 in direct payments in 2001. Add to that the multiple boutique polling firms the administration regularly employs for specialized and targeted polls and the figure is closer to $1 million. That's about half the amount Clinton spent during his first year; but while Clinton used polling to craft popular policies, Bush uses polling to spin unpopular ones---arguably a much more cynical undertaking.

Media Matters has called bullshit on this as well.

Even some random message board called the GWB out on it:

On the news show Washington Week, David Sanger a White House correspondent the New York Times said , the White House publicly claims to be disinterested in polls but in private the Bush administration is the most poll obsessed presidency he's ever seen.

The entire attack on Hillary Clinton that's been going on the past month or so, has been orchestrated by Karl Rove to discredit her as a critic of the administration because she has high positive poll numbers on nearly every criticism she has of the current administration. Rove even used focus groups shape the "Hilliary is angry" talking point campaign but dropped the use of the "angry" angle when polls showed that the public saw the "angry" allegations as just another smear campaign and it resulted in a backlash that lowered Bush's positive performance numbers even more.

These fuckers even polled the war in Iraq:

Although White House officials said many federal departments had contributed to the document, its relentless focus on the theme of victory strongly reflected a new voice in the administration: Peter D. Feaver, a Duke University political scientist who joined the N.S.C. staff as a special adviser in June and has closely studied public opinion on the war.

Despite the president's oft-stated aversion to polls, Dr. Feaver was recruited after he and Duke colleagues presented the administration with an analysis of polls about the Iraq war in 2003 and 2004. They concluded that Americans would support a war with mounting casualties on one condition: that they believed it would ultimately succeed.

No polls eh?