No One Likes Congress
Which is entirely understandable - the kook left is dissatisfied with the Democrats’ failure to lose the war, while conservatives are dissatisfied with Congress for being, well, Congress:
WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) — The approval rating of the U.S. Congress dropped to near-record levels and is lower than U.S. President George Bush’s mark, a Gallup poll indicates.
The telephone survey of 1,017 U.S. adults indicates 18 percent of those interviewed May 8-11 approve of the current Congress. The score matches record lows from similar Gallup polls in August 2007 and March 1992.
Gallup said Wednesday the reason for the low approval rating is because “rank-and-file Democrats are providing no support cushion for the Democratic-controlled institution.”
How this will play out in November remains to be seen - Democrats are patting themselves on the back for their off-year special election victories, and Republicans are wringing their hands over same…but with Congress this unpopular, what we might be seeing is more of a “throw the bums out” mentality rather than any real desire for more of the same. From my personal observations, people seem in a pretty foul temper about politics - which might result in voter apathy in November, or a surge of voters going to the poll in a bloody minded mood towards anyone who is in any way, shape or form connected in the public mind with business as usual. This would mean that anyone who can position himself as the outsider will do better…and in the McCain/Obama match up, I think that McCain - who is in the public mind as a critic of business as usual - might be able to one-up Obama on this sentiment.
Meanwhile, the nation is actually in good shape and we’re winning the war - so I think that the real source of the anger is the way politics has been conducted, and in this the Democrats are 99.99% at fault…by embracing the hate-filled, anti-American kook left, they allowed leftist political poison to work its way deep into the American body politic, and its got everyone feeling nasty. Hopefully, the long term effects of this will be a generalised rejection of the left - but only time will tell on that.
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