Congressional approval at low 14%

We wanted the war ended.
We wanted Bush impeached.
Instead, all Congress and apparently former Congressional members knew how to do was to beat up on Hillary--both Dems and Repugs

It's because Bush did what he said he would and Pelosi and the gang did not, plain and simple.

Maybe it's that get outta jail free card for the T-coms for spying on we little folks.
Moral of the story--don't head to the center, Barack.

Yes, the Democ"rats" took control of congress in 2006 and it has been down hill every since.

They blame "BUSH", but he has an higher approval rating.

We need to "FIRE" the Democ'RATS" and Elect McCain and the Republicans.

VJ Machiavelli
http://www.vjmachiavelli.blogspot.com

But the Dems won't get the flack from this. It's all about a disgust with the status quo, and McCain/Bush are exactly that.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

If both houses of Congress weren't so evenly balanced, then the Democrats wouldn't keep getting stifled by the Republicans and America would be better off as the Democrats would get things done.

I see where those on the Far Left say the low approval rating of Congress is because they haven't been liberal enough. The reality is, MOST of the country is not interested in an impeachment of Bush, only the Far Left. In many of the districts that Democrats won, they are centrist to slighly leaning GOP districts in which moderate Democrats won. For them to go to the Left would be suicide and not what THEIR constituents want. MOST Americans are not interested in suing or closing the Telecom companies, only the Far Left. And too many Dems are too far to the Left, which has hurt Congress. Most Americans do not like Pelosi, Reid, Waxman, and the rest of the Far Left gang.

I think they might be down to immediate family. Even personal friends have bolted from this congress.

Why would anyone like Congress? There are far too many Republicans in it for the Democrats to be happy and far too many Democrats as far as the Republicans are concerned. Most of our Congressmen seem to be more concerned with getting re-elected than representing their constituents or serving their country anyway.

So much for voting Democrats!
There is too much hate in their
veins. Pelosi is dumb as a rock,
Reid should be sent out to pasture.
Gore should retire to Greenland. But
I will admit there are some good dems
out there but unfortunately they are not being listened to.

Is there an economic indicator that has improved since Nancy and Harry and their merry band of idiots took control of Congress?

The congressional leadership has clearly lied to the American people. They've made no commitment to getting out of Iraq like they promised on the campaign trail (ask Cindy Sheehan) and they have not banned earmarks and pork barrel projects as they promised to on the campaign trail. The American people have every right to disapprove of their lies.

Here's Pelosi and her 14% approval rating telling Bush he's been a "total failure" with his 31% approval rating. Hey kettle, you're black.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080717/D91VTG9G0.html

"One reason for the growing congressional/Bush approval gap is that Bush benefits from a core group of Republicans nationally who continue to stick by him (67% of whom approve in the latest poll), and who, at this point, are likely to remain supportive of him through the close of his term. This contrasts with the paltry 11% of Democrats who currently approve of the job Congress is doing."

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I get the feeling you gloating Republicants did not read the above in the article.

Let me translate:

Democratic voters oppose elected leaders when they screw up. Republicant voters support their elected leaders no matter how lousy, and then automatically oppose Democrats regardles of performance. In short, Democratic voters apply thought and reason to their positions, which is clearly not the case for our friends in the Republicant party.

Blinkin, Democrats oppose Democratic leaders when they screw up? Is that why our Boy Governor was re-elected? Or even the election of Todd Stroger? What about the re-election of the indicted Congressman William Jefferson? The re-election of Bill Clinton? What about the continual re-election of all the Democrats in the Crooked County Board? City Hall aldermen? Jan Schakowsky and her imprisoned husband? Yeah, she had no clue what he was doing. And I have some land near Meigs Field you might like to buy.

You'd have to be a fool to believe that either party is going to even attempt to solve the major problems of this country. Vote with your dollar, or vote with your feet.

Al Gore was right the other day. We have the ability to turn things around, we just don't have the guts to do it. This has to be the most spineless country on the planet at this point. One of the wealthiest countries in the world, with so much of that wealth concentrated at the top that a handful of people retain political control over the rest of us. And we sit and wait for the next election, and the next election, and then the next election....vote with your dollar or vote with your feet, the political system in this country isn't going to solve our problems.

John D: The poll results speak for themselves. If Dem voters were like Republicants, who support Republican officials regardless of performance, then perhaps more than 11% of the Dem. respondents to the poll would have expressed approval of Congress' s perfomance. Try dealing with the topic at hand.

Terry asked after hitting the iceberg with republican policies if the dems have been able to patch up the Titanic yet. Unbelievable, dishonest, gutless and incapable of taking responsibility to the end. Terry is part of the gang of thieves:

http://blogs.news.com.au/news/blogocracy/index.php/news/comments/socialism_capitalisms_best_friend

Even more than incompetence, Americans hate hypocrites. The Democratic leadership talks tough about cutting war funding, FISA, etc., then caves like a house of cards. I just don't buy that Dem leaders who control both houses of Congress are really getting brow beaten by a lame duck president with approval ratings in the toilet. I think it is more likely that they pander to a base to get votes, pay them lip service, then cut their legs out when it comes to the actual votes because they never believed their own rhetoric in the first place.

If there were a 60% majority of Democrats, their approval rating would be through the roof. It's the Republicants obstructionism that accounts for the low approval rating. Light at the end of the tunnel though. President Obama and a huge majority in the House and Senate will get things done. Just watch their approval ratings a year from now.

BCC the senate is 51 to 49 Dems, and the House is control that by 30 seats.

The reason they can't get things done is because they can't get everyone in their own party to agree with their wackiness.

Some of you keep complaining that things aren't getting done....is that the worst thing that could happen?$

Just look at it as keeping your dough just a little bit longer.

Posted by: Teresa | July 18, 2008 1:04 PM

I agree with "Teresa" aka John D on this.

Congress had every reason to impeach Bush and Cheney for their law breaking and war crimes but instead they decided to enable them instead of holding them accountable their crimes..

John D - you missed one of the great incompentent democratic leadeers of thsi decade that has been re-elected - Mayor Ray Nagin and his lack of leadership during Katrina.

dts - Look at Freddie and fannie and their corrupt accounting practices that lead to the resignation of Franklin Raines. Look at Obama's VP vetting comittee - james Johnson, and who can foget former fannie board member Jamie Gorelick whose incompetence with the "wal"l she erected bewteen the FBI and CIA that helped lead to 9-11 - she was also a board member.

There is plenty of blame, on both sides of the aisle on Freddie and Fannie, follow the lobbying dollars for further proof.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/01/24/8234040/index.htm

http://www.financegates.com/news/banking/2004-12-22/fannie_22122004_02.html

Oh, weird, little John E., er Bubba, Teresa is not me. Green Trees is not me. When will you check into the Elgin Mental Institution? You know they are waiting for you!

If Congress wants their approval numbers to soar, all they have to do is impeach Bush & Cheney and put them out on the curb.

Congress made promises bf the 2006 elections. Neither Congress nor Nancy delivered on the promises made to the American electorate. In fact, Congress removed themselves from their oath-taken duty to uphold the constitution, and they forgot their understanding to be a check on the exec branch. (Given Cheney really is included in the exec branch) Both Houses have given in to lawbreaking by Cheney and Bush. They seem the same as Bush and Cheney, yet worse (if that's possible) due to the fact that they were, in a sense, to police the decider guy and his puppet master. The current Congress does not care about exec accountability. No concrete actions have been taken against BushCo regarding the lawbreaking, the lies to war, the ongoing financing of an illegal occupation, or the financial manipulations leading us to economic hell. Aren't police tried under 'colors' (including cases of conspiracy) and given harsher sentences bc they are in a position of power and should know better? Why wouldn't a Congress that is too lazy, too self-absorbed, possibly too frightened of wire-tapped personal info., enjoying too many war profits, or too wimpy to do their job have a low approval rating?

I for one am happy we have Speaker "14 %" Pelosi around. Since the Soviet Union folded, I've missed the entertainment value of someone who can tell the most outrageous fabrications with such an earnest looking face.

Well, it's may be that "the senate is 51 to 49 Dems" but the republicans have filibustered just about every bill that the Senate has considered. Except that Medicare veto override the other day? Why do you think the repubs left old W out in the cold? Because they are facing re-election.
This economy is squarely on W and his republican enablers. These oil prices are on W's watch. And so was 9-11.

Green D,

John E. is not me. We've been posting separately for over two years now.

I don't know if you are "Teresa" but you most definitely are "Green Trees".

Hey, I'm brand new here. I didn't know anyone was posting under two different names. What would be the point?

I checked out the Huffington, it was a whole lot about nothin. Tried MSNBC and that was so filthy, I'll leave that one to the guys ha.

I do see someone is posting as THeresa, with an H, and someone wrote me and used the H but I knew it was addressing my comment.....I didn't correct them.

Can't blame the voters as congress listens to the lobist rather than the voters that elected them=
Politicial donations has spoiled them-

It's all about Laissez Faire capitalism ,Ter. Greedy corporate types (like yourself) can't be trusted. Unfettered capitalism for profits, socialized cost. When Huffington wrote Pigs at the Trough, she was talking about you.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002264.html

Teresa - Many of the lefties post under multiple names because if you don't have facts, you either try to be cute or hide your identity.

Bubba tries to guess who is whom and never gets it right - just like on discussion topics

dts,

I guess you didn't understand my post - I balmed the Frannie/Freddie meltdown on loose accounting practices and corrupt management like Raines, Johnson, and Gorelick.

As far as my corruption, if you got proof show it.

Quoting EJ Dionne - that's objective. you can tell where he leans when he writes "In the campaign so far, John McCain has been clinging to the old economic orthodoxy while Barack Obama has proposed a MODESTLY (my emphasis) more active role for government"

Adrianna Huffington is a talking-head who couldn't explain conservative thoughts, so she thought she would try l;iberal thoughts since the thoughts are less complex and the audiance dumber.

Pigs at the Trough - sounds like democratic constituants lining up for their gov't money.

Lets see, Government directly employs 14.7%, (22% actually), Those “on the productive side of economy” actually adding to the GNP are 11.8%. A little top heavy isn't it?
FOOD: The USDA has given away ALL our reserve food supply. The US pays the largest chunk of World Food Aid and promised more this year. And FDA and USDA are putting in regs making backyard farming illegal at the request of Multinational Big-Ag. Meanwhile USDA and the FDA radically reduce food testing so diseased imports can move freely into the US. ( border checks were turned over to a Chihuahuan cattle producers' association despite the high prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in Mexican cattle) What happens to this years harvest? It goes into Bio-fuel and the rest is shipped out to meet USDA's promise of food aid. Those new regs will cause the government payroll to skyrocket as the USDA “drives every back road “ looking for unregulated farms.

JOBS: Trade Agreements and very restrictive Regs have pushed manufacturing overseas (China). We have not built an oil refinery in over thirty years. China now owns much of our debt. (Is it any wonder they contributed to Clinton's campaign so he would open the door to the mass exit of US industry?)

SELL USA ASSETS: Our Water Authorities, Toll Roads and Toll Bridges have been sold to Foreign interests (Germany). Our Seaports were even for sale to the Arabs.

KICK ALL THE BUMS OUT!

That the poll numbers are so HIGH for Bush and for Congress (both party) amazes me.

The existence United States is based on The Constitution. This document lays out the manner in which the Federal government is set up and it imposes LIMITS on the Powers that the individual sovereign States were willing to cede to the central government.

Yet, everyday, the federal government ignores the Constitution. Perhaps, just perhaps, that is the reason approval numbers are growing. And the corporate media's pushing the democrat side of this or the republican side of that makes those that voice approval feel they must rally around the party/candidate/representative that they still mistakenly believe is there for them.

The Democrats kill every bill introduced by the Republicans to allow offshore drilling. If passed, just the news of its passage would lower the price of a barrel of crude, but Pelosi doesn't even want to put it on the table anymore. The answer? VOTE OUT EVERY DEMOCRAT IN OFFICE - otherwise you will be paying $10 a gallon in the future. Think I'm kidding? If Democrats stay in office you will live to see it. They are aligned with tree huggers, not the American people

I’m going to point out the Giant Pink Elephant in the room that nobody else wants to address. There is a huge problem with our elections:

Of the 100% of people in our country who are legally eligible to REGISTER to vote,
only 50% do.
Then only 50%-60% of the people who register actually show up to vote.
That means only 25%-40% of our voting population is voting and
60%-75% are not.
Do the math.
Our votes are SUPPOSED to be majority rules.

I know most people (both Republican AND Democrats) write this off to people not caring enough, blah, blah, blah. While I'm sure there are some people who do not care about the Elections, this is indicative of a huge problem that effects EVERY American; In the multiple choice exam we call our elections we are told: “you have to Pick A or B.”
WE ALL NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT FOR A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO DO NOT VOTE, NOT VOTING IS OPTION C: NONE OF THE ABOVE. 75% OF AMERICANS DO NOT WANT TO VOTE FOR EITHER THE REPUBLICANS OR THE DEMOCRATS.

I feel this is a pretty convenient way to write off 75% of the voting population that doesn't agree with what our county's VOCAL minorities argue over.
So this problem grows and every election more and more people are ALLOWED to sit out of the election because they aren't Red or Blue or even Purple. They care, they want to do something, they just aren't united enough to know what to do.
That's the sad thing: that this Majority doesn't even know it is the Majority, because neither side will address this issue, AND NEITHER WILL THE (supposedly ‘liberal’) MEDIA.

So next time someone you know says they don't vote, talk to them. Don't lecture them about how they need to pick between the lesser of two evils. Politics shouldn't turn into an argument, it should be a free exchange of Ideas and then the most widely accepted Ideas get implemented. If you don't get your way that shouldn't mean your vote didn't count, it should mean somebody else's Idea was the best of all possible options, according to THE MAJORITY.

I maybe wrong about all of this.... but maybe both sides should focus their energies on getting 100% voter turnout. If all of our countrymen can’t even participate in a democracy why are we trying to force one on Iraq?

Here’s an interesting fact:
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States, his term lasted from 1850 to 1853. He was the last President elected that was not either a Democrat or a Republican, He was a Whig.
The Whig party fell apart before the Civil War.