POL - Congressional approval sinks to record lows.......

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=28456

How bad can this Congress be? They managed to sink to an approval rating lower than the President whom they openly used as a campaign tool. Congress doesn't even have the support of the Democratic respondants. It's becoming pretty obvious that the general public has just about had it with the political grandstanding that seems to circle around EVERY single issue presented before the governmental bodies.

I'm waiting for the "We hear your cries for change loud and clear." speeches on both sides of the aisle followed by more lack of action by anyone.

[flere-imsaho]

Hardly surprising. As the article points out:

1. Congressional approval ratings are never high anyway.

2. Republicans were always going to hate this Congress.

3. Democrats hate this Congress right now because they aren't sticking it to Bush more.

In other news, Lance Bass is gay.

[miami_fan]

http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=28456

It's becoming pretty obvious that the general public has just about had it with the political grandstanding that seems to circle around EVERY single issue presented before the governmental bodies.


The general public may have had it, but the VOTING public continues to send people to Congress who are experts at political grandstanding.

[Toddzilla]

What better, do-nothing congress or veto-happy president?

[chesapeake]

What better, do-nothing congress or veto-happy president?

It is probably more fair to accuse Bush of being a veto-threat happy president. He got all huffy about provisions of the 9/11 bill, but blinked when push came to shove and signed it anyway. He vetoed stem cell research and the Iraq supplemental, but I'm not sure that qualifies as being veto-happy.

I'm not sure why the Democratic leadership in Congress is allowing itself to be portrayed as a do-nothing crowd. Of the 6 things that they ran on last fall, the president has signed 2 into law -- the aforementioned 9/11 Commission implementation bill and a minimum wage increase -- and passed a third internally when they approved Congressional ethics reforms. That is 1 more thing than the GOP was able to pass from the Contract on America when they took over the joint in 1995 -- and they had 12 years.

For only the second time since the Democrats were in charge before, the House passed all of its appropriations bill before heading out for the August recess -- the meat and potatoes of the legislative schedule. The veto threats from the president will slow things down some in the Senate, but many of these threats are likely hollow. When the year is over, the list of legislative accomplishments will be a heck of a lot better than the last two or three Congresses, despite the hostile president.