Politics Post-Halloween Greeting From Our Incredibly Popular Congress
posted by on November 1 at 12:15 PM
Posted by Ryan S. Jackson
Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who decided not to run for president, dresses up for Halloween as Democratic Senator Joe Biden, who isn’t running for president very well.
Photo Via the Associated Press
Meanwhile, congressional polling results from Democratic Party strategist Stan Greenberg:
He came back from the field in October with numbers for NPR that showed 69 percent of voters disapprove of the job Congress is doing — up 20 points from last January and the highest disapproval rating since Democrats reclaimed their congressional majorities. More striking than the data was a focus group Greenberg observed with James Carville, a fellow consultant for the Democracy Corps project and his partner in Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign.“We’ve never seen people as angry and frustrated as they are now, … even more than in ’92,” he said.
As it happens, however, Greenberg is firmly in the stay-calm camp of the Democratic debate. Along with pollster Mark Mellman, who also consults with Democrats, he has been trying to reassure anxious members with this sunny-side-up message: The public dislikes Republicans even more than they dislike you.
The threshold for a successful campaign in this country appears to have really become: “You’re awful in every way, but you’re still not as awful as the people before you. You know, the ones that started an unpopular war and protected that aspiring internet predator/Congressman.”
I can tell you I'm mad about one incumbent Democrat and his endorsement of RTID/ST2 right now.
Why do they ask if people approve of Congress as a whole? The question makes no sense, because it is open to so much interpretation.
I meaningful pair of questions would ask approval ratings for each party in Congress separately. Since that's what everybody really wants to know, why don't they ask that?
Do I approve of Congress? No, cause it has GOP morons who keep us in Iran, and a few Dem quislings who help them.
I found this section to be the most telling:
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who led the House Democrats’ campaign committee during last year’s election, said he can live with these numbers for now. “I would not call it a grand slam, but you are on a base,” he said Tuesday.
He appealed for realism: “If 70 percent of the country feels rotten about how things are going, you are not going to get them to feel positive about any institution or person.”
In other words, the DLC doesn't give a fuck how shitty things are, they're not going to do anything about it and all they care about is getting re-elected and staying in power, which seems to be the only goal of politicians on both sides.
I wish we could just pull the plug and start over with publicly financed elections and all new representatives.
Dem leadership needs to play hardball. Pelosi and Reid should be doing a lot more process-wise to stop things instead of trying to accomplish things that no one outside of President Bush wants to see accomplished.
Realism is not funding the Iraq War and specifically limiting the military from engaging in hostile actions in Iran.
But that's something beyond the Republicants and the few Dem quislings that keep us in Iraq for the next 50 years (no, that was NOT a joke).
Does anyone who reads this wonder why 45% of Americans don't bother to vote? And, whom does that help? ^..^
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