Bush @33%, Congress @11% approval, but did you know that congress' low approval ratings are because?

Question

people want us OUT of Iraq and are upset that it's not happening?

Answer 1

I think I concur rather than agree.

Congress' low numbers are due to several factors. There are Republicans, who dislike Nancy Pelosi; there are Liberals who are upset that Congress hasn't done enough; and there are people who don't really follow politics, who are just plain unhappy with how the country is going and blame "the politicians."

That being said, I have not yet seen many polls on how popular any congressmen are in their own district. And that would help us understand just how strong or fragile the current Democratic congress is.

Answer 2

This democratic congress has an approval score of 9%... it is the backside approval score for congress in history. specific, numerous what Bush is blamed for isn't some thing he has administration over. He can't do lots without congress.

Answer 3

That's true. Iraq is wasting people's time and poisoning their attitude not toward the Bush Administration responsible for this needless morass but Congress who can't get enough votes to end his presidential misaction.
And add also the right-wing pro imperial presidency press (75% or more 1. repeatedly, incessantly pretending Bush is doing something, saying something, offering something (read the daily fake headlines); 2. painting anything that Congressmen and Senators do to oppose Bush failures, lies, crimes, partisan misdeeds and other nonsense as Democratic (partisan) politics, especially in headlines, rather than praising them for trying to do their constitutional job and blaming Busites for the disaster; and 3. extremist Republicans stopping every sane, useful and progressive measure from being passed, which is then covered by the big lie statist press as a Congressional failure rather than what it is. This leads to an exoneration of the logjamming doctrinaire Republican extremist "crazies" and to a poisoning of citizens' attitude toward government in itself--when their covrage top be truthful ought, by logic, to be causing them to blame Bushites and their pseudo-theocratic bumbling and a-strategic corrupt unconstitutional actions for the mess we're in--in economics, health care, military, foreign relations, education, the job market,inflation, inequality, the sphere of justice and the whole of the humanities.
Here's just one example: New Orleans did not get harmed by Katrina the Hurricane.
The hurricansewas a force three storm that MISSED the city.
It was harmed by decades of Republicans misplanning, stripping the cirty of a mile of protective land between the city and the sea, neglecting the levees and then refusing to allocate a mere 33 million for the necessary upgrades and restored protections. These are the facts.
But is this how the right-wing press 'running dogs' of Bushism refer to the city's disaster--and to what hasn't been done for its citizens before, during and now years after this wholly avoidable Republican-caused disaster?
Think about it. It's not just Iraq. It's every issue mishandled by a postmodernist anti-individualism press who has no grasp, in my opinion, of what a true marketplace society of free men living a just civic life under a real constitution would look like.

Answer 4

THis is the first time in history that the congress approval has been this low regardless of presidential approval ratings......It has nothing to do with the Iraq pullout ,, it has to do with them wasting their time on nonbinding resolutions and garbage debates.... They don't believe their own words you know the ones that got them elected so they won't act on anything at all....What happened to gas price reform, adding more refineries so prices would go down, what happened to changing the health care cost and holding insurance companies and the medical commuinity accountable.....I don't know about you but I feel a huge tax hike coming after the 2008 elections which means my employer will have to cut back...

Answer 5

I don't think so. If that's the best excuse you can make for low congressional ratings, then you need to take the blind fold off. Maybe you forgot about the whole immigration debacle, or maybe congress' constant threat of raising taxes on Americans. Get your head out the sand, it has nothing to do with Iraq.

Answer 6

You're mostly right. The same 33% approval that Bush has are the same people that hate the new congress. Then add all those people that voted for Dems to get us out of Iraq. A lot of people on the left are mad.

When will people learn that once we get into a war, it's not easy to get out. I hate this war but expect it to last many more years. War with Iran will almost certainly bring WW III.

Answer 7

The world stinks. At this point, people are thinking bigger than just Iraq. There may not be walls along the border but there are walls in America. Do you see them? Maybe the wall along the border is kept down so Americans can be driven out.

Answer 8

Yes, definitely. That 11% approval is just a piggyback of Bush's poor rating, in reality.

Answer 9

Yes. Before the 2006 election the ratings for congress were higher. That's when many republicans were in approval. Now the republicans are negative and many democrats have turned negative because they expected more in the way of stopping the war.

This is all good, however. The democratic landslide in 2008 will produce the White House and substantial gains in the Senate and the House.

Are YOU ready for some Government???

Answer 10

Congress's low approval rating is because we have a bunch of lying, two-faced cowards running our government! Not one Congressmen knows his @ss from a whole in the ground!