= 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.
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