Press Release:

The nation’s pony supply is being depleted at an alarming rate as a notorious “blogger” who goes by the name of “Holden” is being flooded with more of the creatures at the rate of several per week. New polls indicate that the last dwindling stock of previous Bush supporters are refusing to answer polls:

Bush is even losing support in what has been his base: 51 percent of conservatives and 69 percent of Republicans now approve of the way Mr. Bush is handling his job. In both cases, those figures represent a substantial drop in support from four months ago.

The National Independent Pony Protection League East (NIPPL(E)) has issued a warning that at the current rate of decline in “presidential” popularity, the last one, an elderly pinto Shetland, is projected to be delivered by mid-month. After that date, the group said, future equines will have to be imported.

As both Canada and Mexico have let it be known through diplomatic sources that they refuse to allow their nation’s ponies to be exported for this purpose, on grounds of American tariff policies and immigrant-worker rights respectively, it is anticipated that most of the stock will have to come from China, further aggravating the trade deficit.

APPS officials are imploring the blogging community, and have issued a personal appeal to “Holden,” to institute a policy that once the “president”s popularity sags into the 20s, any future awards will be taken from the nation’s stock of thoroghbreds, quarter horses, standardbreds, Tennessee Walking Horses, and Morgans. The Anheiser-Busch Company has already issued a statement that they will not give up their Clydesdales for the program as they are already committed to filming next year’s Superbowl commercials.

UPDATE Exegesis saves: "Holden gets a pony" is an Atriotism. --Lambert