Poll: 71% of Americans Say Congress Does Not Share Their Priorities

[Quixote1818]

Increasingly pessimistic about Iraq and skeptical about President Bush's plan for Social Security, Americans are in a season of political discontent, giving Mr. Bush one of the lowest approval ratings of his presidency and Congress one of its lowest rating in years, according to the New York Times/CBS News Poll.

Forty-two percent of those polled said they approved of the way Mr. Bush is handling his job, a marked decline from his 51 percent rating in the aftermath of the November election, when he embarked on an ambitious second-term agenda led by the overhaul of Social Security. Sixteen months before the midterm elections, Congress fared even worse in the survey, with the approval of just 33 percent of Americans, and nearly three-fourths saying Congress did not share their priorities.



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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. I will remind people

the last time that happened was '92... anybody care to tell me what happened that year?

(I know most of you are aware but for the freepers lurking... that was Gingrich's take over)

[Quixote1818]

2. I posted a few weeks back that we should do a 'Contract to Restore

America' this time around.

[The Magistrate]

3. This, Sir, Is An Excellent Omen For The Coming Year!

[deadparrot]

4. Unfortunately, people

are just as disillusioned with Democrats.

But this is always good news. I think Americans are finally waking up to the power wielded by the religiously insane.

[BR_Parkway]

6. But Dems with a spine can come out against the BS and gain credibility

(hear that Biden, Lieberman and the rest of you R-Lite enablers?)

The Frists and Delays are going to have a much harder time distancing themselves.

I hope the trend continues and that the ReThug spin is that Dems keep getting called the Party of No obstructionists. It will actually make Joe Averageguy realize that the things he is unhappy about would have been much worse without the Dems fighting for him.

Contract to Restore America would be a great place to start. Keep it short, simple and 'sound-biteable'. Lord knows if we left it to most of the Party leadership, it would be a 6,000 page manifesto that they'd still be arguing over 'find and replace this word' until Aug, 2010.

We should distill it down to 10 very simple statements. Things that actually say something rather than the vague campaign promises that no one believes in anymore anyhow. And use this new, online grassroots to sign on as citizen supporters. Screw the DLC, we can make the party platforms actually mean something to real people.

Then Dean needs to say that DNC funding will be cut off to any candidate that trashes another Dem in public. During these setup type interviews (Senator Biden, how crazy do you think Senator Reid was to say......?) the only acceptable answer is "But Sean, you're completely wrong on that, what the good Senator was trying to point out to the American public was point #1, point#2 and right on down the line from the Contract to Restore.

If Biden thinks Reid is bat shit crazy, I don't care. Let DNC fund them a hotel room, some boxing gloves and cover medical costs if they need to beat up on each other. But do it in private.

[izzie]

5. Oh dear, it must be time for Bush to get a new face boil.

This cheerleader does not take the team going off the mark at all well.

[Quixote1818]

7. Kick

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