Congress hits bottom: Only 10 percent approve

Throw the bums out...

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The Pessimist complains about the wind.
The Optimist expects it to change.
The Realist adjust the sails - William A. Ward

A 10% approval rating and 80-90% of them will get re-elected in the next election.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

Leftists and very small children don't seem to be able to understand that the Government isn't there to "fix" the economy, anymore than a tick is there to fix your dog.~Oftencold

This is why I think there should be term limits for all politicians.

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"There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”—Theodore Roosevelt

Yup...very sad..

"Well, my congressman is in my party so that's good enough... or something.", or whatever the excuse if for not tossing them out into the street.

I, for one, would lose no sleep over losing the so-called legislative leadership in both parties and some of the more special children who somehow get voted in, and again, again, and again...

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"Bush tortured people, Obama just kills them."
---Noam Chomsky

Easier said than done. For some reason, Americans seem hell-bent on electing the same problems over and over.

We need a refreshing change. Badly.

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I believe we talked about this before and as mad as people are with congress as a whole they still like their own congresscritter, so nothing changes from election to election.

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Courtesy of Swissman

A gun in the hands of a free man frightens and angers the autocrat, not because he fears the power of the gun, but, rather, the spirit of the man who holds it.

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Polling Congress as a whole is a sham...

If they ever asked "WHY" and listed "I love MY party in Congress, but the OTHER party sucks!", you'll get that as the reason for about 90% of the people surveyed...

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"You get the respect that you give" - cnredd

Don't complain, mine is Debbie Wasserman-Schultz - sheesh. They have been running this Congressional poll since the mid 1960's to my knowledge, and Congress never seems to break a 25% approval rating with the American public. Strangely, however, when the poll question is whether you approve of your individual Congressman or woman, 90% of the American public says they approve - go figure? Must be talking to the same people who agree that it costs 2.7 cents to mint each individual penny, but doesn't want the penny eliminated from our currency, even though 99% of the pennies minted in our history, never are circulated back to the government. They end up in jars, car consoles, piggy banks, under seat cushions, etc.

Some think-tank also documents every word spoken by every member of Congress in public, each year, puts it into some computer algorithm, and it calculates the intelligence level our Congress speaks at. Last year, all members of Congress collectively, spoke at a high school 10th grade level, this year it dropped down to a 9th grade high school level.

Not to worry, the same system was somehow applied to a representative number of American's, supposed to be "average" voters. The population speaks at a 7th grade mentality level, so - Congress is apparently safe. Love the congresscritter crack. Sounds like Mr.Liberty is from Georgia or South Carolina - they use that term critters there. If he had said congressvarmint , probably from Tennessee or Kentucky, LOL.

I agree with the statement made in the OP..."the continuing poor economy is certainly a major factor". I'm sure there are other factors for this record low approval. People want to hold "someone" accountable for the spending as long as it's not a member from their own party...