AP Poll: How low can they go? Congress gets lower approval than Bush

[Regis Philbin]

Let's hear it for the Dems! Whooooot! How about that first 100 days? We're now pushin' 200 days and they've got a minimum wage increase passed...

Actually, this gridlock in Washington D.C. is GOOD news for all Americans. The fewer laws, regulations and taxes these knuckleheads can pass the better off the country is. That's one reason why Wall Street is booming now---no new taxes and anti-business regulations coming anytime soon = good news for the economy. :)

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Congress_AP_Poll.html

AP Poll: Public gives Congress low marks

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON -- In the eyes of the public, Congress is doing even worse than the president.

Public satisfaction with the job lawmakers are doing has fallen 11 points since May, to 24 percent, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll. That's lower than for President Bush, who hasn't fared well lately, either.

Bush has been taking heat over the Iraq war, his decision to spare a former top vice presidential aide from going to prison and his desire for an overhaul of immigration laws that critics said would give a free pass to illegal immigrants. His job approval rating in the AP-Ipsos survey remained virtually unchanged at 33 percent.

The 24 percent approval rating for Congress matched its previous low, which came in June 2006, five months before Democrats won control of the House and Senate due to public discontent with the job Republicans were doing.

Just two months ago, 35 percent of the public approved of Congress' work.

[Richard Tafoya]

The public's frustration is aimed at the inability of this Congress to force the Republicans and the president to get out of the way and let Congress do what the majority of Americans want them to do.

From the same story:

"The Republicans are just stonewalling everything, and the Democrats are just not stepping up and making them do what they need to do, especially about Iraq," said Lambirth, a Democrat. "They need to make our troops get out of Iraq."

Democrats won control of Congress on the strength of their promises to end the Iraq war, but so far have failed to do it. Bush vetoed one spending bill that included a deadline for ending the war, and Democrats don't have the votes to override him.

An increase in the federal minimum wage became law, but much of the Democratic agenda has cleared the House only to become bottled up in the Senate, where the party has a much narrower working majority.

[db44]

In other words, Brad, expect the GOP to lose more seats because it is fairly well understood why things aren't getting done.

[pinky]

I just read today that the Democrats have raised far more money for their Senate and Congressional campaigns. That's a good sign!