How Low Can They Go? August 22, 2007
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CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL RATINGS PLUMMET TO EIGHTEEN PERCENT - LOWEST EVER
FITSNews - August 22, 2007 - According to a poll released yesterday by Gallup, the U.S. Congress has an approval rating of 18% - yup, 18% - which is the worst rating since the company began tracking Congressional approval back in 1974. A whopping 76% disapprove of the job Congress is doing.
Holy hell. There are probably serial killers, Islamic terrorists and third-world facist dictators with better polling numbers than this. These guys have even managed to make President Shrub (whose approval ticked up from 29% to 32%) look positively Clintonian.
Frankly, if this isn’t a sign that America has totally bailed on its current crop of leaders, we don’t know what is. Maybe it’s time for “Contract With America 2 - Electric Boogaloo.”
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Along the lines of the terrorists and dictators, I understand that Michael Vick is still clinging to a 21 percent approval rating.
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