That sinking feeling - the current Congress
Talk about circling the drain.
On
May 11th, I posted this comment from an article in the
Houston Chronicle:
The survey found only 35 percent approve of how Congress is handling its job, down 5 percentage points in a month. That gives lawmakers the same bleak approval rating as Bush, who has been mired at about that level since last fall, including his dip to a record low for the AP-Ipsos poll of 32 percent last January.
Then on
June 20th:
New Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all time low
Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.
This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973. The previous low point for Congress was 18% at several points in the period of time 1991 to 1994.
Well, we can all see where this is going. From
Zogby International:
Survey shows just 3% of Americans approve of how Congress is handling the war in Iraq; 24% say the same for the President.
And a bit more:
Just 24% give the president favorable ratings of his performance in handling the war in Iraq, but confidence in Congress is significantly worse – only 3% give Congress positive marks for how it has handled the war. This lack of confidence in Congress cuts across all ideologies. Democrats – some of whom had hoped the now Democrat-led Congress would bring an end to the war in Iraq – expressed overwhelming displeasure with how Congress has handled the war, with 94% giving Congress a negative rating in its handling specifically of that issue.
Granted, this is a much narrower scope than the "overall satisfaction" of the previous two polls but the numbers are still damning. Looking forward to the next election...
Posted by DaveH at August 3, 2007 8:42 PM
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