Lowest Low: Congress Falls to 6% Approval Rating

[expandspanos]

If a business had a 6% approval rating, they would be out of business and the owners of said business would be living on the streets- not our government though! Keep paying them, even when they're not working doing their own self-inflected shut-down because they can't do their jobs! What a hilarious scam!

New low for Congress: Just 6 percent approve, finally lower than car salespeople

The public’s approval rating for Congress has finally hit rock bottom: For the first time, America has a higher opinion of car salespeople.

A new Economist/YouGov.com poll put the approval rating of Congress at a historic low of 6 percent. A December 2012 Gallup poll comparing Congress' approval ratings to other occupations had car salespeople at the bottom at 8 percent and Congress at 10 percent. Now Congress is the cellar dweller.

The nation’s bad opinion of Congress, impacted by inaction, budget fights and the battle over the filibuster, has also spread to Senate leaders. Just 19 percent approve of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell while 54 percent disapprove. Democratic leader Sen. Harry Reid’s ratings are 52 percent unfavorable, 25 percent favorable.

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[kalm]

Nah...it's a perfect system and completely unchangeable.

[DSUrocks07]

Nah...it's a perfect system and completely unchangeable.

"MY congressman is perfectly fine, its the rest of you idiots across the nation who keep voting in the wrong people." - America

[CID1990]

Congress is just a reflection of us, nothing more.

They are always going to have a low approval rating because they are never going to give everyone everything they want.

Personally I would be more worried if their approval rating was high. As it is, they are certainly dysfunctional but the body is doing precisely what it was designed to do. I think we will find that if we wind up with a moderate in the White House (another Bill Clinton or Bush I) then we will see Congress behaving better.

I like to think of Congress as a check on a bad executive. They did a bad job under Bush, but have improved under Obama.

[D1B]

Congress is just a reflection of us, nothing more.

They are always going to have a low approval rating because they are never going to give everyone everything they want.

Personally I would be more worried if their approval rating was high. As it is, they are certainly dysfunctional but the body is doing precisely what it was designed to do. I think we will find that if we wind up with a moderate in the White House (another Bill Clinton or Bush I) then we will see Congress behaving better.

I like to think of Congress as a check on a bad executive. They did a bad job under Bush, but have improved under Obama.

Conkgress = no plans and no willingness to negotiate, as long as a black family is in the white house.

[kalm]

Congress is just a reflection of us, nothing more.

They are always going to have a low approval rating because they are never going to give everyone everything they want.

Personally I would be more worried if their approval rating was high. As it is, they are certainly dysfunctional but the body is doing precisely what it was designed to do. I think we will find that if we wind up with a moderate in the White House (another Bill Clinton or Bush I) then we will see Congress behaving better.

I like to think of Congress as a check on a bad executive. They did a bad job under Bush, but have improved under Obama.

Congress is a reflection of money tempered a little by ideology and couched in populist rhetoric...just like the bad executive.

[CID1990]

Congress is just a reflection of us, nothing more.

They are always going to have a low approval rating because they are never going to give everyone everything they want.

Personally I would be more worried if their approval rating was high. As it is, they are certainly dysfunctional but the body is doing precisely what it was designed to do. I think we will find that if we wind up with a moderate in the White House (another Bill Clinton or Bush I) then we will see Congress behaving better.

I like to think of Congress as a check on a bad executive. They did a bad job under Bush, but have improved under Obama.

Conkgress = no plans and no willingness to negotiate, as long as a black family is in the white house.

Bill Clinton was black too

[Chizzang]

Congress is just a reflection of us, nothing more.

Dude...
You completely stole my Wal-mart rant ^