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.

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“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?

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