Republican led Congress' approval rating down to 9%

[Initech]

Source: CBS

Congressional approval at all-time low of 9%, according to new CBS News/New York Times poll

CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.

Approval ratings for Congress dropped into single digits this month for the first time since CBS News and the New York Times began asking the question more than three decades ago.

In a poll released Tuesday, just nine percent of Americans said they approve of the job lawmakers on Capitol Hill are doing. The all-time low is down 2 points from an 11 percent approval rating just a month ago, and is the first single digit level since the question was first asked in 1977.

According to the poll, which was conducted between October 19-24, Americans also have less trust than ever in the government's ability to make the right decisions: Just one in ten Americans currently say they trust the government to do what is right all or most of the time - down from 23 percent who said the same just a year ago. That figure - at just 1 percent - is a record low since the CBS News/New York Times poll first asked the question in 1976.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20125482-503544/congressional-approval-at-all-time-low-of-9-according-to-new-cbs-news-new-york-times-poll/

Well, I have to say this is what happens when you let a news network (Fox / Teabag / Limbaugh] do your thinking for you. :banghead:

[Initech]

1. Anyone? Bueller?

[MedleyMisty]

2. Thus why we've joined the global revolution

You should see all the solidarity and advice being given to Oakland protesters by Egyptians on Twitter right now.

And the chatter I'm hearing on Twitter and in the chats on the feeds and everywhere - it's not "Hey, vote for these other corporate candidates!" Nope. It's more on the lines of a whole new government. And I think the Oakland police just kicked the movement into a higher gear.

[andym]

3. Of course it's not all good news, because the GOP achieves its primary aim to slander govt

From the OP: "Just one in ten Americans currently say they trust the government to do what is right all or most of the time."

Remember Reagan: "Government is the problem. not the solution...."

This poll seems to indicate that this view is being reinforced.

[Tsiyu]

4. Yet they have no clue why people are protesting

Yikes....

[opihimoimoi]

5. That ad from AARP with 65 MILLION VOTES telling the GOPers we gonna VOTE NEXT YEAR....We dont like

SS, Medicare, Medicade....being scrapped oe even touched....

[Bandit]

6. Seniors are the largest consistant voting block and look what happened in 2010

I still shake my head in amazement over the 2010 elections.. After a decade of Republican RULE and the near destruction of America and yet Republicans were overwhelmingly elected in almost every state....I shudder at the thought of America's future..

[Jello Biafra]

7. Wouldn't you really like to know one of the 9% who approves.....

and just shake them and tell them WTF are you thinking?

[workinclasszero]

8. 9% damn!

So the 1% wall street mobsters plus 8% freepers, birthers, batshit insane so-called christan heretics, hate radio robots and Mormans.

I only wish we had a parliamentary form of government so we could throw these bastard teathuglians and third way dems out on their asses NOW!