Poll: 75 percent disapprove of Congress' performance

[Roon]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Americans think Congress is doing a pretty lousy job, according to a poll released Friday

The approval rating for all members of Congress sits at a dismal 22 percent, according to the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll. About 75 percent of those surveyed said they disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job.

A year ago, a similar poll found the numbers to be 28 percent approval, 63 percent disapproval.

"The big issues of the day just don't seem to be being addressed," said Sarah Binder, a political science professor at George Washington University who studies Congress. "The issues that matter most to people -- the economy, health care, the environment and the larger war in Iraq -- it is so difficult for Congress to move on those issues that I believe the public looks and says, 'Why aren't they doing anything?'
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/26/poll.congress/index.html

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Who's gonna be the first one to say...

it's all Pelosi's fault?

[Rageneau]

2. It's not ALL Pelosi's fault. Just a large part of it.

To whom much is given, much is expected. So far, the first lady Speaker is the biggest wimp I've ever seen in that job. And I'm old.

[Perry Logan]

3. Misleading. the Democrats in Congress consistently score ten points higher than the Republicans.

The Congressional-approval polls are just about the ones that cheers wingers up. That's why you hear them repeated so much. But--like everything wingers believe--it's a distortion of the truth.

[Perry Logan]

4. Bob Geiger: "Destroying The GOP's Congressional Approval-Rating Spin"

"That downward slide belongs almost entirely to the Republican party and the Democrats simply have not yet reversed that long-term decline."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-geiger/destroying-the-gops-cong_b_58382.html