Approval Rating for the Last Congress Among Lowest in Two Decades

Interestingly, the ongoing obstructionist, "nothing at any cost for the next two years" mindset of the Repubs isn't mentioned by the writer, just "the 111th Congress under Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats set a pretty low bar". Gotta write this one off as just another biased poll rather than an informed, rational exam of who and what certainly aided in the misperception.

You know, look at some of those numbers for disapproval..... how did any of these people get re-elected with performance evaluations like that??? Man, I just don't get how someone who has more than one poor performance rating get's reelected. The only thing that is telling me that the political gene pool must be strained!

Politics is this country is so confusing and we may never fully understand the seedy underbelly of the political beast. Promises broken, votes missed, uneducated votes cast..... perpetual deceit out of D.C. and we elect some of these people over and over.

"If your not part of the solution, you are part of the problem" stands clear here.

Bill Clinton did not really balance the buget the Republicans raised the debt ceiling and that is how the budget was balanced and some play money was left over. The Republicans and Bill Clinton are the ones who got America in this mess. Gramm, Leach Bliley Act. Deregulation, Nafta, North America Trade Agreement that sent millions of American jobs to foreign Countries, Prison Building Business, cut Military defence funds, etc.

It is not surprising, but the factors are many and the American people have a short attention span.

When was the last time the budget was balanced? Under Bill Clinton! Why? Check out the US Constitution, Article 1, Sections 7 & 8. The Budget originates in the House Budget Committee, Newt was Speaker, and the ONLY Budget Clinton got was a balanced one.

So we had a balanced budget, the economy was good, and along came 9/11, a reversal in control of Congress, big spending budgets, and the economy went in the dumpster. Blame Bush stuck and resonated. Queen Pelosi came to power, flying around in a VIP Boeing 737, and record deficits are the norm. Pelosi shut the minority Republicans out of all decision making. The last Budget committee under Pelosi had 25 Democrats and 15 Republicans, it was on the House Budget Committee web site, they may have not had time to change it yet.

Pelosi ruled the House, she was not just Speaker. She rammed Healthcare down our throats, even when the polls disagreed with the measure the House was pushing through. One political firestorm after another, she stuck it to the American people. She was against extending tax cuts, the Queen in here 737 needs more money.

And she took the Democrats down like a boat anchor. Like our economy. Like Congressional approval numbers. And she still lives in a dream world far from reality, she won't accept that it was HER behavior that took the party down.

Maybe the new Speaker, under the provisions of Article 1, Sections 7 & 8, can restore a balance budget and that alone will boost our economy a lot. And with the rising economy, Congressional approval numbers will go up. And we will all live a little better, be a little happier, and America will grow a little stronger.