BUSH PRESSES FED CHIEF FOR HIKE IN APPROVAL RATING by Andy Borowitz In what insiders described as a heated, occasionally testy Oval Office meeting, President George W. Bush today pressed Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke for a one percent increase in his approval rating. With the president's approval rating sinking below 30 percent for the first time in his presidency to an all-time low of 29 percent, Mr. Bush felt that urgent action needed to be taken to boost his sagging statistic. For that reason, he took the extraordinary step of pulling Mr. Bernanke out of a Fed meeting on inflation and summoning him to the White House to demand that his approval rating be hiked by 100 basis points, or one percent. While presidents in the past have leaned on the nation's central banker to move interest rates up or down, Mr. Bush's action is believed to be the first time that a Fed chief has been called upon to manipulate a president's approval rating.
Ha ha. W has a ton of 25K and 50K CDs spread out over every bank under the sun as I recall from his ethics filings. He's doing great recently - as are many savers. Not sure the dollars you get for the interest are good for much these days though.