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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A record 84 percent of Americans say they disapprove of the way the Congress is doing its job compared with just 13 percent who approve of how things are going, according to a Washington Post/ABC News public opinion pollpublished on Monday.
The disapproval rating for Congress inched up two percentage points since October and reflects a year of lows for Congress that ended in a battle over a temporary extension of the payroll tax cuts for 160 million Americans.
Democrats and Republicans fought all last year over the best way to control the country's debt and annual budget deficit, as the two parties tried to position themselves for the 2012 elections.
A vitriolic debate leading up to an agreement last summer to allowPresident Barack Obama to raise the debt ceiling fueled public disgust with Congress and prompted Standard & Poor's credit rating agency to strip the United States of its stellar AAA rating.
When the parties are considered individually, Democrats in Congress have a 33 percent approval rate, while Republicans have a 21 percent approval rate, the poll found.
Congress will be back in session this week after a holiday break, poised to resume where they left off, with Democratic and Republican negotiators preparing for a new round of talks to extend the payroll tax cut for the rest of the year.
The 84 percent disapproval rate is the highest for Congress in nearly 40 years of polling. The previous high was last October, when 82 percent of poll respondents said they disapproved of the way lawmakers on Capitol Hill were doing their jobs.
The telephone poll of a random national sample of 1,000 people was conducted January 12-15 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.[/release]
[URL]http://news.yahoo.com/poll-disapproval-congress-hits-high-021634901.html[/URL]
I read somewhere in a CNN article that it was around 10%. But either way, it's still a horrible rating for Congress.
I saw this thing that I can't remember where that said, "What if government isn't filled with conspiracies, and corruption, and it's just geniunely unintelligent?" At first, I laughed, then I noticed how much of a possibility it was. :feelsbadman:
Time to take over congress and reform the government! Revolution!
[QUOTE=avaz;34260910]Time to take over congress and reform the government! Revolution![/QUOTE]
No, we don't need to, the current Congress is just going to grow old and die.
[QUOTE=zombays;34260923]No, we don't need to, the current Congress is just going to grow old and die.[/QUOTE]
They probably got some secret underground prototype life enhancing machine that helps them live forever.
[QUOTE=zombays;34260923]No, we don't need to, the current Congress is just going to grow old and die.[/QUOTE]
Not soon enough.
[QUOTE=kidwithsword;34260941]Not soon enough.[/QUOTE]
That's what I'm saying! Let's just do it now and be done with it.
Although the american constitution state that the blood of tyrans need to be bleed every now and then, couldn't that also apply to for a moron congress as well?
[QUOTE=Beafman;34261094]Although the american constitution state that the blood of tyrans need to be bleed every now and then, couldn't that also apply to for a moron congress as well?[/QUOTE]
That's not in the Constitution, it was said by Thomas Jefferson, our 3rd president and author of the Declaration of Independence.
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That's because, instead of trying to pass legislation that helps the people, they pass bills that will hurt the other party and vice versa. That, or bills that will line their own pockets.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;34261129]That's not in the Constitution, it was said by Thomas Jefferson, our 3rd president and author of the Declaration of Independence.[/QUOTE]
Ah, sorry then. I know it's a well-known quotation in the US, but I just thought it was from there.
And not a single member of congress will take this into any sort of consideration.
[QUOTE=Beafman;34261180]Ah, sorry then. I know it's a well-known quot[b]ation[/b] in the US, but I just thought it was from there.[/QUOTE]
Fixed.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;34261129]That's not in the Constitution, it was said by Thomas Jefferson, our 3rd president and author of the Declaration of Independence.[/QUOTE]"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Fitting
I think [url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp#a1] Article 1 Section 7 Paragraph 2 and Section 9 Paragraph 20 of the Confederate Constitution would do well here.[/url]
I can't remember a congress with an approval rating out of the teens.
We just need to invent an aging field, and then call a meeting of congress. And then instate a rule forbidding politicians over thirty-five from joining.
I was reading somewhere that herpes is more popular than the congress.
[QUOTE=avaz;34260910]Time to take over congress and reform the government! Revolution![/QUOTE]
The Congress, Gerrymandering (Seriously, America. This is an 18th Cen. problem.), FPTP, Electoral College, Two-party system, Presidential system.
How I dislike the American system.
[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;34263066]I think [url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp#a1] Article 1 Section 7 Paragraph 2 and Section 9 Paragraph 20 of the Confederate Constitution would do well here.[/url][/QUOTE]
That's not the US Constitution. It's about as relevant to American politics as the Magna Carta.
If I had a job and my approval rating was that low I'd be fired on the spot.
[QUOTE=Beafman;34261094]Although the american constitution state that the blood of tyrans need to be bleed every now and then, couldn't that also apply to for a moron congress as well?[/QUOTE]
I don't think a bunch of angry rednecks with guns storming the Capitol building and spilling the blood of tyrants is what we need right now.
Let's see how the election plays out first.
[QUOTE=tyanet;34266778]That's not the US Constitution. It's about as relevant to American politics as the Magna Carta.[/QUOTE]
He's pointing out two very good clauses from the Confederate Constitution that would should very well be amended to ours.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;34261129]That's not in the Constitution, it was said by Thomas Jefferson, our 3rd president and author of the Declaration of Independence.[/QUOTE]
I'm sure anyone in congress right now who knows he said that wishes he didn't.
[QUOTE=Aredbomb;34267679]I'm sure anyone in congress right now who knows he said that wishes he didn't.[/QUOTE]
All the more reason for that quote to spread to people.
Opposite of congress will always be progress.
I am completely SERIOUS people!
[QUOTE=zombays;34260923]No, we don't need to, the current Congress is just going to grow old and die.[/QUOTE]
they take the money they receive, and turn it into a large mash, then they take bright young lawyers and students who want to become 'good' politicians and throw them in the mash.
They then grind it up along with the tears of the lower and middle classes and rub it on their old saggy bodies to gain a couple more years of life.
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