Congressional Approval Falls to Single Digits for First Time Ever

[Socio]

Congressional Performance

The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.

It just keeps dropping and dropping, now it is to the point you can say it is blatantly obvious these idiots flat out just don't give a damn. Whats worse is the space wasters will end up getting re-elected and that is just sad.

 

[miketheidiot]

what do they think about their own senators though?

Seeing as thats what actually matters.

 

[ChrisFromNJ]

How many of these people polled actually know who their Congressman is?

40%?

 

[SAWYER]

LOL, we as a country need to clean house on all these fools on both sides of the isle.

 

[frostedflakes]

Ouch. Gas prices are probably a big reason behind this. Many Americans probably don't approve of a lot of the policies Congress has let go through (warrantless wiretapping, Iraq war, etc.), but the reality is most of this won't directly affect them, so they probably don't really care. Let their gas prices get out of control, though, and there will be hell to pay.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Socio
Congressional Performance

The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.

It just keeps dropping and dropping, now it is to the point you can say it is blatantly obvious these idiots flat out just don't give a damn. Whats worse is the space wasters will end up getting re-elected and that is just sad.

They don't like the other guys Reps but generally like theirs. On the other hand the vast majority of them don't like their President.

 

[ChrisFromNJ]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Socio
Congressional Performance

The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.

It just keeps dropping and dropping, now it is to the point you can say it is blatantly obvious these idiots flat out just don't give a damn. Whats worse is the space wasters will end up getting re-elected and that is just sad.

They don't like the other guys Reps but generally like theirs. On the other hand the vast majority of them don't like their President.

Yup - if Congress's approval rating is really 9%, virtually all incumbents will have a hard fight this election and most of them will lose their seats. We all know that won't be true - the majority of incumbents will keep their seats.

 

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: ChrisFromNJ

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Socio
Congressional Performance

The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.

It just keeps dropping and dropping, now it is to the point you can say it is blatantly obvious these idiots flat out just don't give a damn. Whats worse is the space wasters will end up getting re-elected and that is just sad.

They don't like the other guys Reps but generally like theirs. On the other hand the vast majority of them don't like their President.

Yup - if Congress's approval rating is really 9%, virtually all incumbents will have a hard fight this election and most of them will lose their seats. We all know that won't be true - the majority of incumbents will keep their seats.

What that means is that the feds shouldn't be doing whatever it is they're doing.

People approve of their own representatives because they're doing things that are in their interest. The problem is that the federal government is one size fits all, and what Texans want is different from what New Yorkers want.

Big government is always going to do things you don't like because different people like different things. It's that simple.

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
Ouch. Gas prices are probably a big reason behind this.
-snip-

I agree.

The polls show most people, even self-described Dems, wanna open up drilling yet they've done nothing.

I bet most would like to see some effort to get speculators out of the market too (lots of press about how high they've driven up prices, whether true or not). Here again, Congress has done nothing.

(I've no doubt the recent FISA/amnesty vote has angered many as well.)

Fern

 

[Double Trouble]

The problem is everyone thinks "congress sucks", but when asked if their congressional rep is good, most will say "yeah, he/she's OK", so basically all the idiots keep getting re-elected or replaced with even more incompetent idiots.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: Fern

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
Ouch. Gas prices are probably a big reason behind this.
-snip-

I agree.

The polls show most people, even self-described Dems, wanna open up drilling yet they've done nothing.

I bet most would like to see some effort to get speculators out of the market too (lots of press about how high they've driven up prices, whether true or not). Here again, Congress has done nothing.

(I've no doubt the recent FISA/amnesty vote has angered many as well.)

Fern

I don't oppose drilling, but there isn't enough oil which could possibly come on line to make a significant difference. I wish I could remember where I read the study, but ANWR was supposed to make a difference. Turned out it was about 1 percent at most at it's very peak. Oils gotta go, and as long as we're diverted by it, nothing is getting better.

 

[cliftonite]

Originally posted by: Fern

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
Ouch. Gas prices are probably a big reason behind this.
-snip-

I agree.

The polls show most people, even self-described Dems, wanna open up drilling yet they've done nothing.

I bet most would like to see some effort to get speculators out of the market too (lots of press about how high they've driven up prices, whether true or not). Here again, Congress has done nothing.

(I've no doubt the recent FISA/amnesty vote has angered many as well.)

Fern

Opening up drilling today will make a difference tomorrow? The day after? It would take years for it to have any effect.

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: Sawyer
LOL, we as a country need to clean house on all these fools on both sides of the isle.

I thought we did that in 2006?

 

[fskimospy]

Originally posted by: Double Trouble
The problem is everyone thinks "congress sucks", but when asked if their congressional rep is good, most will say "yeah, he/she's OK", so basically all the idiots keep getting re-elected or replaced with even more incompetent idiots.

Well it allows people to indulge their partisan hackery by still supporting their individual rep while trashing the institution because it's been pretty inept lately. If you could somehow do the same thing with Bush and the executive branch I imagine his approval ratings would be tunneling into the molten core of the earth. I feel that about 29% of the country would say they approve of Satan himself if he had their party affiliation.

 

[fskimospy]

Originally posted by: blackangst1

Originally posted by: Sawyer
LOL, we as a country need to clean house on all these fools on both sides of the isle.

I thought we did that in 2006?

Well we did clean a little house... got rid of Tom DeLay. I always hear that people want to 'clean house', but that's a total cop out. Clean house and replace it with what? People usually have some sort of vague answer, but it's nothing that you could actually act upon.

 

[fleshconsumed]

If the approval rating is only 9%, then why isn't anyone being voted out?

/sarcasm

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider

Originally posted by: Fern
-snip-

I don't oppose drilling, but there isn't enough oil which could possibly come on line to make a significant difference. I wish I could remember where I read the study, but ANWR was supposed to make a difference. Turned out it was about 1 percent at most at it's very peak. Oils gotta go, and as long as we're diverted by it, nothing is getting better.

Originally posted by: cliftonite

Originally posted by: Fern
-snip-

Opening up drilling today will make a difference tomorrow? The day after? It would take years for it to have any effect.

Nobody knows how much oil is offshore or in ANWAR. Exploration (which means drilling too) has been forbidden for a long time.

All we have is some old estimates.

The lenght of time until production starts has been exaggerated. Oil industry execs scoff at the estimates of 8 or 10 years. They say offshore could come on line in a few years.

Yes, I agree alternatives must be pursued. I support a multi-pronged approach. But here again, Congress hasn't done anything about alt tech either (other than corn/ethanol which is unpopular with pretty much everyone but corn farmers).

I see people often saying that the increased production won't reduce prices much (although highly debatable I won't pursue it here). Perhaps we should be thinking more about how it will prevent or minimize future increases in oil prices.

Fern

 

[Corbett]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
On the other hand the vast majority of them don't like their President.

Yay! Only took 6 posts to bring up Bush!

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Double Trouble
The problem is everyone thinks "congress sucks", but when asked if their congressional rep is good, most will say "yeah, he/she's OK", so basically all the idiots keep getting re-elected or replaced with even more incompetent idiots.

Around here no one even runs against the incumbents. I'm going to start writing myself in I guess.

 

[Specop 007]

Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider

Originally posted by: Fern

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
Ouch. Gas prices are probably a big reason behind this.
-snip-

I agree.

The polls show most people, even self-described Dems, wanna open up drilling yet they've done nothing.

I bet most would like to see some effort to get speculators out of the market too (lots of press about how high they've driven up prices, whether true or not). Here again, Congress has done nothing.

(I've no doubt the recent FISA/amnesty vote has angered many as well.)

Fern

I don't oppose drilling, but there isn't enough oil which could possibly come on line to make a significant difference. I wish I could remember where I read the study, but ANWR was supposed to make a difference. Turned out it was about 1 percent at most at it's very peak. Oils gotta go, and as long as we're diverted by it, nothing is getting better.

In the big picture it will make no difference.

You can pretty easily do the math yourself. The world as a whole uses roughly 80 million barrels of oil every single day. America uses roughly 20 million per day. ANWR is generally stated to have realistically 8-12 billion barrels of oil, with a high estimate "at best" of 30-40 billion barrels.

Well, if we use 20 million per day that means every month we use a bit under a billion barrels of oil. To make the math easy lets just say 1 billion per month (Which is admittedly somewhat high). Well, 8-12 billion barrels will give us roughly 8 -12 months of oil. Since we rounded up bya fair amount lets just double our low number and say 16 months.

So with some off the cuff figures we can say ANWR has roughly 16 months worth of oil if used by America alone.

Gives you that warm fuzzy "Woohoo we're saved" feeling doesnt it........

EDIT

Actually, i think the reserves are estimated at 6-8 billion with a 50% chance of 12 and 33 being considered best case...... I frankly havent had to discuss ANWR for a while so I admit my memory of the numbers is a bit shady.......

 

[Specop 007]

Forgot to add, land based production is measured in months. They can tap those fields fast. Offshore production gets quite a bit more difficult especially in deep water areas. At that point yes it takes years to bring fields online.

 

[RY62]

Originally posted by: cliftonite
Opening up drilling today will make a difference tomorrow? The day after? It would take years for it to have any effect.

So we should have started years ago. What are we waiting for?

I agree that major focus should be on alternatives and reducing demand but why not use what we have while we're doing that?

Not drilling for the oil makes about as much sense as parking all vehicles so we don't use up the fuel in gas station's underground tank.

 

[brandonbull]

It would take years to get this "new source" of oil flowing. What do we do until that happens? Stick our heads in the sand and hope that with the "threat" of new oil sources that the prices will magically go back down? High oil prices are here to stay unless we can get oil alternative sources developed. Spending money and time drilling for oil does nothing but "put a bandaid on a gunshot wound".

 

[ericlp]

Originally posted by: Corbett

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
On the other hand the vast majority of them don't like their President.

Yay! Only took 6 posts to bring up Bush!

Yay... Cause he is worse... Bush friggen takes the cake.


What we need is a revolution. Who's with me?

We need to dump all these assholes including obama and clinton out with the trash pick up and hire everyone NEW ... It's so corrupted it's laughable.


I think we should dump everyone in politics every 10 years and FUCK NO they can't reapply for their old jobs nor can their brothers and sisters.

I also think we should clean house with the supreme court justice ... This Hired for life BS is total BS.

Oh well, welcome to America.

 

[ericlp]

Originally posted by: brandonbull
It would take years to get this "new source" of oil flowing. What do we do until that happens? Stick our heads in the sand and hope that with the "threat" of new oil sources that the prices will magically go back down? High oil prices are here to stay unless we can get oil alternative sources developed. Spending money and time drilling for oil does nothing but "put a bandaid on a gunshot wound".

True but 90% of the morons here can't figure it out. They keep bringing it up like a busted record. Cause bush thought it was a good idea apparently.


What we really need to do is get everyone in a car that gets 50+MPG and market it to the world because they will also want a car that get's 50+ mpg. Yeah yeah, there is really NO short term solution but this is a BIG start!

We can also, start using Solar Panels and wind, eventually covert cars over to electricity. We will already be at about 20% goal in the next 10 years for wind energy alone. I believe the answer is getting away from oil, and if we can't get away from it then we need to shove all the cars that get under 30MPG off the roads. I would propose that we tax any car that get's less then 30MPG 1.50 extra more per gallon, and any car that gets under 40 we tax an extra .50 cents a gallon to fund the birth of a new car that will get 60-70MPG.

Once one of these cars is made we should sell these cars for less then 10K and call it the peoples car. Kinda like what Hitler did with the VW Bug, but only this bug will get 65+ MPG!


Oh well, that's my idea on the energy use.