= Do Nothing Congress
Posted on 07/08/2008 9:04:26 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.
Last month, 11% of voters gave the legislature good or excellent ratings. Congress has not received higher than a 15% approval rating since the beginning of 2008.
The percentage of Democrats who give Congress positive ratings fell from 17% last month to 13% this month. The number of Democrats who give Congress a poor rating remained unchanged. Among Republicans, 8% give Congress good or excellent ratings, up just a point from last month. Sixty-five percent (65%) of GOP voters say Congress is doing a poor job, down a single point from last month.
Voters not affiliated with either party are the most critical of Congressional performance. Just 3% of those voters give Congress positive ratings, down from 6% last month. Sixty-three percent (63%) believe Congress is doing a poor job, up from 57% last month.
Just 12% of voters think Congress has passed any legislation to improve life in this country over the past six months. That number has ranged from 11% to 13% throughout 2008. The majority of voters (62%) say Congress has not passed any legislation to improve life in America.
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Way to go Harry and Nancy. Worst Congress ever!
President Bush, by comparison to Congress, is doing pretty good!
Pelosi/Reid have a 9% approval rating YET the dominant media tell us there`s gonna be a democrat landslide come Nov. !?
How in the hell can anyone give Congress a positive rating?
Just confirms what I suspected: We have a 9% illiteracy rate in this country.
Absolutely the worst congress ever. Too bad so many Americans are so out of touch they don’t even know it is the Dems who have the majority.
= Do Nothing Congress
“just 9% say congress is doing a good or excellent job...”
is it because those polled think congress has too many republicans who stand in the way of the democrat agenda or is it because they are dissatisfied with the democrat agenda?
(if it’s because of the republicans can one expect a democrat landslide and if it’s because of the democrats can one expect a republican landslide?)
“. The majority of voters (62%) say Congress has not passed any legislation to improve life in America.”
It’s no surprise that Americans are not happy with Congress, but I suspect the way this question was asked.
I didn’t realize, I suppose, it was Congress’ job to improve my life....kinda thought that was up to me.
“Among Republicans, 8% give Congress good or excellent ratings”
I don’t know what world these “Republicans” live in.
Wow! Those dems really deliver, huh?
If this is true, I can't believe that the Dem's wouldn't be in more trouble in the Congressional elections.
The GOP is afraid that if the attack the dems, the dems won’t like them anymore, and all the GOP members of Congress will be taken off the democrats’ My Space pages.
I am afraid this really has no meaning. American has been dumbed down so much with reality show mentality that a majority if the sheeple haven’t a clue!
Throw all the Bums out. Dems, Dinos, Rinos, Reps they only care about securing their own future. Thats why they wont do anything on immigation. We need Terms limits our democracy may hang in the balance.
With skyrocketing gas prices, it is clear that the American people can no longer afford the Republican Rubber Stamp Congress and its failure to stand up to Republican big oil and gas company cronies. Americans this week are paying $2.91 a gallon on average for regular gasoline – 33 cents higher than last month, and double the price than when President Bush first came to office.
“With record gas prices, record CEO pay packages, and record oil company profits, Speaker Hastert and the Majority Congress continue to give the American people empty rhetoric rather than join Democrats who are working to lower gas prices now.
“Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price gouging, rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies, and increasing production of alternative fuels.”
- Nancy Pelosi, April 24, 2006
http://www.house.gov/pelosi/press/releases/April06/Rubberstamp.html
So it took Bush and a Republican controlled Congress six years to double gas prices and it took a Democrat controlled Congress less than two years to double them again. Now that’s progress!
“Despite these negative attitudes towards Congress, Democrats continue to enjoy a double digit lead on the Generic Congressional Ballot”
It’s now almost a 20 point advantage for the Democratic Party in most polls.
We need to wake up, stop shooting rubberbands at the screen, and recognize the reality of the GOP’s situation here.
The GOP is the party is low-to-no Government intervention, regulation, etc, at the exact time that people are clearly demanding swift and striking intervention and regulation.
Our problem is built-in here. It’s structural, and not based on any 1 or handful of issues.
While voters may be saying, G-D-Damn ALL of you for this mess, when they have only 2 options at the polls, in this environment, they’re pulling the lever and touching the screens for Dems.
If we’re interested in the GOP’s survival, and more importantly, small government conservatism’s survival, we need to figure out how to deal with what is very much a deficit based on our ideology itself, at this particular moment in time.
Do we stay the course and take the hit in the fall, go down to 130 to 150 seats in the House (a likely outcome) and a Democratic supermajority in the Senate, or do we temporarily moderate?
I hate the year 2008. I really do.
“Just two years ago, remember the election in 2006? Two years ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon; and,
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
However, since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummet to historically low levels;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $4.00 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5.5% (a 20% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (mainly stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars; and,
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
America voted for change in 2006, and we sure got it!”
http://camp2008victorya.blogspot.com/2008/06/congressional-dems-human-wrecking-balls.html
My world!
*I* am one of those 8%! If this congress has "done nothing to improve life in America" then I'm happy.
In fact, every single day they "DO NOTHING" I count my blessings. You should too.
“Is it just that Joe Sixpack hasn’t caught up to the idea that the Republicans don’t control Congress any longer?”
When it comes to elections, these recent primaries were a real eye-opener. I talked to quite a few people who voted for candidates who held positions diametrically opposed to what they said was important.
I remember one 50-something year old man telling me that he was voting for McCain because he thought he was “patriotic enough to close our borders.”
There are just a lot of people out there where the lights are on, but well...
Good luck on this site.
The most you'll get is a gaggle of FReepers looking to stay home this election and 'teach the GOP a lesson.' The OPPOSITE of what we need.
This is why Russ Kirk initially title his book "The Conservative Rout" because it is the nature of the conservative, self-reliant message to be constantly beaten back by the sloth, panic and laziness of human nature in a democracy.
What the Republicans need to do is what they did in 1994 and that is to run a national campaign against the Democrat controlled Congress. Everything that the public is unhappy about now can and should be blamed on the past two years of Democrat control.
In every Republican Congressional campaign ad between now and the election, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid should be shown as the posterboys of everything that is wrong with the “do nothing, good for nothing” Democrat controlled Congress.
In all of McCain’s campaign ads, he should tie Obama to Pelosi and Reid - the Three Stooges of American politics.
Very simple. Americans don’t know Pelosi Reid took over congress because they are claiming Bush and Republicans still run things and the media is reporting it, every news story Democrats blocked this or that with democrats attempting to fix things like, raising taxes on oil to lower gas prices (they leave out the last part.)
It isn't up to congress to pass legislation to "improve my life". If they really want to do that they should repeal most of the laws passed in this country since it was founded and stay the he** out of private enterprise, get rid of the EPA and the BATF for starters. In short:Congress and other government officials, elected and appointed, stay out of my face and obey the constitutional limits placed on your powers.
The power of information must not be underestimated. Where does the public receive information about Congress? Most sources of information obliterate the Democrat’s dominance in Congress. However, if you think back a few years, the phrase “Republican-controlled Congress” was a standard introductory phrase to sentences describing our Congress. How is Congress described today? Do news reports start with, “The Democrat-controlled Congress today...”?
The greatest hole in the cause of Conservatism in the U.S. (and around the world—look at Europe for an awful situation) is the lack of a Conservative information service that is prominent in daily life. Despite loss of market share, the traditional and cable news outlets and the big newspapers are all socialist in bias. The internet has intelligent users but many popular sites are dominated by extreme leftists. Radio is insufficient a public information source to match the socialist information sources in communicating to the public at large.
Why would voters who buy gov't subsidized subway and bus tokens for transportation and don't own a car care about the price of gas? Why would they want to toss the Dem who is making sure their subsidy keeps pace with inflation for a Republican who wants to drill for domestic oil?
This is the % that got sick of both parties and refuses to affiliate themselves with either. I fall into this category.
If any of them were worth anything at all, following a referendum such as this, they would all resign. Problem is, they couldn’t care less. Business as usual.
Who the hell are these 9%?
9%! Hey Congress-—try drilling your way out of that.
sadly most morons think it is run by GWB and his Republicans and will still vote for rats.
You’ll never see this stat on the 6pm news for all to see.
“This Fall Fire’Em All!”
with credit to stonewalls.
:>)
Pelosi Galore and Reid the Walking Dead only needed 17 months to double the price of gas.
Yet they and the Obamination stand in the way of drilling for more new oil in America and new refineries.
Pelosi Galore and Reid the Walking Dead only needed 17 months to double the price of gas.
Yet they and the Obamination stand in the way of drilling for more new oil in America and new refineries.
Simply because they as well are "DO NOTHINGS". It's not a DEM vs GOP fight it is a right vs wrong fight and most GOP today in congress are on the wrong side as well. Hey Republicans! Stop wasting time blaming the DEMs and instead focus efforts on bringing the GOP back into accountability! If it can't be done then replace the Republican Party ASAP.
“Is it just that Joe Sixpack hasn’t caught up to the idea that the Republicans don’t control Congress any longer?”
That’s exactly it. While the Republicans ran Congress, every bad story in the MSM said “the Republican controlled Congress.” Now, the MSM just says “Congress.” Thus, all negative views of Congress have been associated with Republicans. That was the intent, and it has worked.
Bless their little hearts!
Don’t get mad... get even :-)
Because they are part of the corrupt "Two-Party Cartel" which get their marching orders from the same elites & have lost their core values, Getting along with elites is more important than doing what their constituents want & their constituents will sadly vote them back in.
LoL...The Iraq war is 5x’s more popular than Congress.
In a rational society there would be a correlation ... but we've long since ceased to be a rational society.
These same Congress critters who have such low approval ratings, somehow manage to get re-elected term after term.
Whose fault is that?
Just like the post office, and their service sucks, also.
Hmm, interesting point. Sad thing is the republicans aren’t doing much better than the dems.
While these two socialist amateurs posture and prance in the Congress of The United States, and millions of deluded, imbecilic citizens look to the new messiah, Barack Hussein, the nation slides more rapidly into the hole these lousy politicians have dug.
This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job.
"Ha-Ha, Told You So!"
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