Aye, and now (at last?) we shall see the true extent of their Versailles mentality.
IOW, if they give a rat's neck about what we,the people, think.
Posted on 06/21/2007 3:49:54 AM PDT by Lady GOP
New Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all time low. Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.
This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973. The previous low point for Congress was 18% at several points in the period of time 1991 to 1994.
That is simply astonishingly low. Means that basically both Democrats and Republicans think that congress is incompetent, and I would have to agree with that assessment. They are unable to accomplish anything meaningful on any issue.
GOOD!!!!
Hmmm... Sounds high.
2008 is shaping up to be a throw the bums out election. Hillary of course is currently part of this loathed congress which will kind of make it hard for her to play the role of the candidate of “change”.
Could their approval rating go into negative numbers?
14% huh? Sounds like the rest of America is finally catching up with me. :-)
I would like to know where the usual poll that accompanies these that although congress as a whole is 14 percent people love their own congress person .
Yeh - it’s bad when the government-loving MSM can’t skew a poll any better than that.
The only thing our "representatives" are doing, is expanding government - all the way into even our refrigerators.
There are several species of plague-carrying vermin that are now more popular than Congress.
Recall the trash - boot the bums out - or accept the fact that you are indeed insignificant. - and that is the true lesson of this poll.
14%? Wait a few more days till the Senate gives America away and see what it hits...
Thompson - and any candidate able to come off as an reform-minded “outsider” for that matter - is well-positioned to take advantage of this sentiment. On the GOP side, McCain seems to most likely to get tied to this sentiment among the frontrunners. And his tanking numbers would support this theory.
Yet the power of the incumbency is so great that most of these inefficient legislators will return to their seats. They have learned that the people no longer have any power over them. Like despots everywhere they can ignore the people that they rule with an iron hand.
It’s time to seriously consider term limits, it’s the only way to remove people like Teddy Kennedy who has been in Congress for over 44 years.
Where am I wrong?
Aye, and now (at last?) we shall see the true extent of their Versailles mentality.
IOW, if they give a rat's neck about what we,the people, think.
The fact that he’s been out of Washington the past few years will certainly help him.
The problem is that the Republicans have no leadership in the House to offer in contrast to Pelosi so there is no way to take advantage of this.
I’m very surprised they got that high a positive rating but hey a lot of folks are way stupid.
Just look at all the fools who support Mrs. Clinton, John Edwards, and all those morons still with Kerry Edwards stickers on their vehicles.
You're wrong in that we have a representative form of government. Kennedy and Kerry properly represent those liberal nuts up there in Massachusetts.
So be it.
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