DEMOCRATS LEAD CONGRESS TO RECORD LOW APPROVAL RATING

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POLITICAL WIRE - A new Gallup poll finds that approval of Congress has
sunk to a poll-history low of 18%. 76% of Americans disapprove of the
job Congress is doing. The poll also reported Pres. Bush's current
approval rating remains low at only 32% -- a slight improvement from its
dismal 29% mark from a few months ago.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2007/08/21/congressional_approval_hits_new_low.html


GLEN GREENWALD, SALON - The reason for these low approval ratings is as
clear as it is meaningful -- the overall ratings for Congress are so low
because Democrats disapprove of the Democratic Congress almost as much
as Republicans do. There is nothing unusual about how Republicans or
independents rate the Democratic Congress; the only aspect of any of
this that is unusual is that Democrats rate the Congress so low even
though it is controlled by their own party. Virtually every poll
demonstrates this. From the most recent CBS News poll:

That is just extraordinary. Democrats express disapproval for the
Democratic Congress almost to the same extent as Republicans do. . .

Since Democrats took over Congress in January, there have been three
major attributes characterizing their conduct: (1) a failure to stop or
restrict the war in Iraq; (2) a general failure/unwillingness to stop
Bush on much of anything else of significance (FISA, a failure to
reverse any of the excesses of the GOP Congress, such as the Military
Commissions Act, lack of limits on his ability to attack Iran, etc.);
and (3) numerous investigations, sometimes flashly but thus far
inconsequential.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/08/21/congress/index.html?source=rss


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