Previous Madness
Tuesdays InsanityMore Madness
Grandfather Kills Two Men Robbing Neighbors Home. Justice or Anarchy? 
July 8, 2008
Congressional Approval Ratings In Single Digits!
When are our representatives in Washington going to learn? It seems to me that they are so out of touch with the problems of the common American that they don’t know or are not willing to provide us with the changes we so desperately want and need.
How else would you explain a paltry 9% approval rating? 9%! This 9% approval rating stretches across party lines.
“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.” Additionally, “Most voters (72%) think most members of Congress are more interested in furthering their own political careers. Just 14% believe members are genuinely interested in helping people.
Here’s a prime example of what I am talking about coming from one of the leaders of Congress, Harriet Reid.
“Coal makes us sick, oil makes us sick. it’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.” Greg Pierce from the Washington Times, Inside Politics section put it best when describing Harry Reid’s, “latest hilarious monologue came a few days ago on the Fox Business channel when, in trying to defend the exorbitant costs (and federal subsidies) of renewable power, he asserted that money is overrated in debating the country’s energy policy…Yes, the resources that not only drive the world’s economy and rising standard of living, but make life and prosperity possible in his political base of Las Vegas, are ‘ruining our country’ and ‘ruining our world.’”
Exactly my point. Rising cost of gasoline, the falling dollar, the slow upward clime of unemployment, the rising cost of commodities, etc, none of these effect the personal pocket books and lives of our representatives. They simply don’t get the message that common Americans are suffering and Congress does nothing.
Maybe the Boondock Saints have it right. “We must all fear evil men (errr Congress), but there is another kind of evil which we must fear most and that is the indifference of good men.” When are we going to wake up?
0 comments
In any other country a leadership with this close-to-nothing approval rating [I look forward to the day where congressional approval is within the statistical error rate] would have triggered a revolution already.
Conclusion: this is how the American citizen likes the way things are going.
- no health care, not a problem
- no decent education for the masses, not a problem
- no living wages for manual laborers [the ignominy: a slave that can make do with actual wages? Laughable!], not a problem for the American citizen.
- encroachment of rights, in the most outrageous ways you can imagine: par for the course for the American people.
- laws that are rewritten to suit the corporate client, nope, not a problem here
- lawbreakers that congress -refuses- to prosecute, two thumbs up from the American people.
If the American people cared about it, it would change soon enough. But they don’t or they would act.
Congress forgets how the equation works [save for a notable few]: it is the representative who works for the citizen, not the other way around.
The problem as I see it is that congress just isn’t scared of the people. “what are they going to do, right?”
And the American people just takes the abuse, the crime, the outrageous lies and the incaculable debt and stands united at the flag.
I’m not really impressed by the American people, to be honest.
[...] single digits for the first time in Rasmussen …Stuck On Stupid - http://stuckon-stupid.com|||Congressional Approval Ratings In Single Digits!How else would you explain a paltry 9% approval rating? 9%! Here’sa prime example of what I am [...]
[...] single digits for the first time in Rasmussen …Stuck On Stupid - http://stuckon-stupid.com|||Congressional Approval Ratings In Single Digits!How else would you explain a paltry 9% approval rating? 9%! Here’sa prime example of what I am [...]