Democrats drive congressional approval down to 21%. Anyone else unsurprised?
News today from a new Gallup Poll. You’d think career-politician Democrats could have anticipated this a little better then they did.
PRINCETON, NJ — Americans’ approval of the job Congress is doing is at 21% this month, down significantly from last month’s 31% and from the recent high of 39% in March. [...]
Approval of Congress today is significantly below the average 36% rating found across the past two decades. [...]
The current drop in overall job approval to 21% particularly reflects a substantial drop in approval among Democrats, whose 36% rating this month is 18 points lower than last month’s 54%, and the lowest since January of this year.
via Approval of U.S. Congress Falls to 21%, Driven by Democrats.
Seems all that pandering to the imagined “middle,” all that reaching across the aisle to a constituency of hysterical birthers and death panelists is losing the Democrats the voters who got them there in the first place. It should have been obvious from the start that appeasing the town hall nuts was never going to get Democrats anywhere, because those people never would have voted Democrat in the first place.
Dare to dream of the day when one might be surprised pleasantly by his government, rather than by its ever-more-shocking level of ineptitude.
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Remember gridlock, do-nothing congress, bipartisanship? Well they all go together and the system is designed to fail.
Consider this fear of filibuster and this 60 vote rule. It seems logical, it promotes bipartisanship,but when a party that is down needs the party that is up to fail the people’s business takes a backseat to political business. Then there is the matter of special interests, everyone is taking money and when money intersects with the people it is convenient to come close to 60 but damn just missed it. Take for example the issue of subsidies to the oil interests in tax breaks and direct subsidies. Some think it is in the neighborhood of 50 to 100 billion a year, but actually no one sits down and figures out how much taxpayers contribute to the record profits these companies make every year. I think in June Congress wanted to take up the issue with a floor debate. Well the motion failed by 51 yea to 47 nay. So the majority thought it important issue to reduce the deficient or a way to finance clean energy but hey the majority just isn’t big enough. Democracy in action, gridlock in action. Obama’s initiative for jobs through clean energy fails because it can’t pay for itself and things stay the same with a do-nothing congress.
So if congress fails like it is on health care, Obama fails and the republicans win.
So republicans pick up votes, try to push their agenda and the democrats wave the filibuster flag and here we go again.
And us, the people? We don’t matter, we are the spectators that want their votes back.
Austin it looks the “fools on the hill” are getting the message, everyday the public option grows stronger. On the issue of don’t ask-don’t tell the volume is differently getting louder. Also notice the prez isn’t rushing to send additional troops into Afghanistan.