29 percent

[deminks]

Smirksalot now arriving at the sub basement level - crooks, deviants, dirty tricksters, war criminals, people who leave office in disgrace (usually).

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1844140220070919?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress registered record-low approval ratings in a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday, and a new monthly index measuring the mood of Americans dipped slightly on deepening worries about the economy.

Only 29 percent of Americans gave Bush a positive grade for his job performance, below his worst Zogby poll mark of 30 percent in March. A paltry 11 percent rated Congress positively, beating the previous low of 14 percent in July.

The Reuters/Zogby Index, a new measure of the mood of the country, dropped from 100 to 98.8 in the last month on worries about the economy and fears of a recession, pollster John Zogby said.

"Since the last time we polled we have had the mortgage crisis, and we are hearing the recession word a whole lot more than we've heard it in the past," Zogby said.

[Double T]

1. Democratically controlled congress with an 11% approval rating?

The Dems don't consider this to be a BIG problem? DO SOMETHING, DAMMIT!!!

[deminks]

2. I would call it a Democratic majority Congress blocked at every

turn by a Republican fillibuster that they condemned dems for even thinking about, and a smirking chimp who now wields a veto at the dems but never ever used it when the pugs were the majority. That is the 11 percent for Congress. A Congress that is still blocked by the criminal Republicans.

[hang a left]

3. Well if that makes you feel better...

go ahead and dream on.

[deminks]

4. It doesn't make me feel better, it is still powerlessness.

You prefer to think that the democratic congress members are all in the conspiracy against your will, then by all means, have your dream too.

[hang a left]

5. Have you checked out the legislation that has passed lately

now that we are in the majority. Did you read Hoyer's comments yesterday. Have you read about the bills that are being bottled up by repuke procedures? Procedures that the Dems never took advantage of when they were in the minority.

Sorry. If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and tastes like shit; you have to eventually call it what it is.

I don't think that they are conspiring against me PERSONALLY, but I do believe they are colluding with the criminal element.

However, I am open to receiving data that would change my mind. It would actually make me sleep better.

[Double T]

6. Inaction, excuses and blaming others doesn't get you elected or reelected.

[deminks]

7. OK, here is an article that describes the Repuglican blockade

Senate tied in knots by filibusters

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/18218.html


WASHINGTON — This year Senate Republicans are threatening filibusters to block more legislation than ever before, a pattern that's rooted in — and could increase — the pettiness and dysfunction in Congress.

The trend has been evolving for 30 years. The reasons behind it are too complex to pin on one party. But it has been especially pronounced since the Democrats' razor-thin win in last year's election, giving them effectively a 51-49 Senate majority, and the Republicans' exile to the minority.

Seven months into the current two-year term, the Senate has held 42 "cloture" votes aimed at shutting off extended debate — filibusters, or sometimes only the threat of one — and moving to up-or-down votes on contested legislation. Under Senate rules that protect a minority's right to debate, these votes require a 60-vote supermajority in the 100-member Senate.

Democrats have trouble mustering 60 votes; they've fallen short 22 times so far this year. That's largely why they haven't been able to deliver on their campaign promises.


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Look at the graphic with the article