do libs feel about their congress? The numbers are pathetic and with their "sweeping" victory last year the lib led congress has accomplished.....what? Great job Pelosie!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20070928/pl_rasmussen/congressrating20070928;_ylt=AouXB2SsZ44nJMW_o.wqkXqs0NUE
2007-09-30 16:28:32 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Good point outsider but blaming the other party is typical of the left
2007-09-30 16:34:35 · update #1
Thats a good question. I had lots of hopes for Pelosi. Although I don't consider myself a Liberal, I tend to side with them on most issues.. To answer your question. Pelosi and Reed need to be replaced with someone who can fight.. Liberals have no idea how to wage war. If we continue as we have there will be no civil liberties left by this gustopo administration and the democratic leadership will share the responsibilty for destroying our constitution, and allowing thousands more to die for political reasons.
2007-09-30 16:37:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
I am not a liberal... I have voted for many Republicans in my time and I am not very respectful of the current Congress... of course, I have not liked this president or Congress for the last six or seven years.
I find the Congressional approval poll pathetic like you but I find Bush's approval rating much more pathetic. While his percentage numbers are better than the overall Congressional rating I think you need to consider a few things about these polls. In the history of these polls Congress is generally lower than the president's.... afterall, we tend to not like the senators from other districts that we do not live in. EVERYONE votes for a president. Typically, people view their own senators favorably but disfavor the other senators... A president's approval as low as Bush's is alarming and says something about the nation's confidence in our leadership.
I am not taking away from Congress's approval, it is a historical low... but then again, so is the president's approval. But a senator only really has to worry about his district and not the nation. The party has to be much more concerned with a incumbent president's low numbers (especially so close to a presidential election... this can kill a new candidate)
2007-09-30 16:45:36 · answer #2 · answered by cattledog 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bush poll numbers are low, but Congress poll numbers
even lower. Let's kick them all out and put in middle-of-the
road people who are neither left wingers or right wingers
and we can all feel better about it. We have too many
radicals in government now-a-days and the ordinary
citizens are not happy with them. Bush has only used his
veto 2 or 3 times in 8 years (for the guy who says Bush
keeps vetoing Democrat accomplishments. Ha.) Let's
push them to get something done on this immigration
thing before this Nation is full of Mexican dissidants and
others, who some day will be a majority and take over.
Politically correct tolerance and diversity is not always
good.
2007-09-30 16:46:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I especially like this part of the article:
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it appears to me, that America is waking up and realizing that we allowed too many Republican obstructionists to keep their jobs. wonder if that mistake will be made a second time?
Thanks andy, for proving what i have been saying all along!
2007-09-30 16:38:47 · answer #4 · answered by avail_skillz 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A low approval rating for Congress does not necessarily mean a low approval rating for the majority party. I would give Congress a 1 out of 10 for their work in the past year, but I think that's because there have been about 700 Republican filibusters (remember the "God hates the Filibuster" rally they had when the Democrats wanted to use it?) and Bush keeps vetoing stuff. Of course, there's also the fact that they waste their time condemning moveon.org and debating war spending bills that they know will get vetoed.
2007-09-30 16:36:50 · answer #5 · answered by M M 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Are you an undercover leftist? Aren't you blaming the other party, which you claim is one of their hallmarks?
Some of these congresspeople will be voted out for not having had the guts to stand up to Bush, and they'll be ejected from both sides of the aisle.
2007-09-30 16:40:15 · answer #6 · answered by oimwoomwio 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Congress has low approval because the can't get things done. They can't get things done because they don't have a large enough majority to override a presidential veto. Don't forget about the abstructionist republicans.
I'm not blaming anybody, just speaking opinion.
Tom, moveon.org is an entirely seperate organization from political parties. The only thing the Dems did wrong was that b.s. in the Senate condemning them for the ad against Petreas. Nothing like this happend over the Swift Boating of Kerry during the 2004 elections.
2007-09-30 16:32:52 · answer #7 · answered by outsider_27 4 · 8⤊ 5⤋
Outsider your forgot the Dem's have sold their soul, and are bought by the Move-On.org crowd If they fail to move the US left, they fail to pay up, and fail again. The polls show two unhappy groups.(the Right Wing and the far left).
2007-09-30 16:42:43 · answer #8 · answered by tom 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Fortunately for some of us we have a brain. While your statement not question is right but it is wrong.The Democrats did win some seats both in the House and Congress. But they did not win enough seats in either to have veto proof power. Basically they come up with good ideas but numb nuts vetos them all or most.
2007-09-30 16:36:32 · answer #9 · answered by Nathan 3 · 6⤊ 3⤋
the real question is that are you willing to look at the poll numbers for the republican minority?
2007-09-30 16:35:49 · answer #10 · answered by Petey V3.3 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋