TEA group ride a tsunami into Congress...and a year later Congress disintegrates.

[Sheepshank]

The public's approval rating of Congress just keeps sinking lower and lower. Just 9 percent of Americans are happy with Congress's job performance, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll released Tuesday night — marking a record low approval rating for Congress since the poll began asking that question in 1977, according to CBS News.
(...)
The poll results also took a whack at congressional Republicans, with just 20 percent of Americans saying they believe the GOP has a "clear plan" for job creation. But the public is not much happier with President Barack Obama, with 38 percent saying that the president has a "clear plan" to create jobs, the poll says.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66956.html

it's all in the timing I suppose, but it's very difficult not to correlate baggers making a sweep into Congress and Congress' current rating. It really doesn't make the baggers look all that effective in governing....in less than a year they have totally tanked Congress.

[JuniperLea]

1. All that fresh blood lowered the approval rating...

Provoking tears from at least one GOP Senator... ha! Dumbasses got what they asked for.

[lob1]

3. Unfortunately, so did we.

[Enrique]

2. "the public is not much happier with President Obama"

38% isn't great, but by any measure it is "much happier" than 20%. 90% happier, to be precise.

[Sheepshank]

4. actually the article goes on to say that Obama's ratings make him a rock star

it's all comparative...and it's still all in Obama's favor.
But I generally expect you to cherry pick the negative statements regarding any Obama info you give out, so no harm done.


"While Obama has shaped the early part of his presidential campaign around attacking a dysfunctional Congress, his approval numbers aren’t great either, sitting at a glum 46 percent, with 38 percent approving of his handling of the economy.

But 38 percent believe Obama has a clear plan for job creation, compared to just 20 percent for Hill Republicans.

"Compared to Congress, he’s a rock star,” Graham declared."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66956_Page2.html#ixzz1c7XCRPfc

[gratuitous]

5. Isn't that odd?

For the last three years of the Dim Son's reign of error, the media just called him our "popular war-time president." No mention was made if it could be helped of Bush's anemic approval ratings, consistently 10 points below Obama's current rating. Nowadays, we get all kinds of breathless coverage about how poorly Obama is doing in the public opinion polls, as if he's in any way comparable to his incompetent predecessor. I'm not all that enamored of Obama myself, but my disapproval of his administration is of a wholly different nature and quality of my absolute loathing for Bush.

[Tsiyu]

6. Gawsh, Media

The American People aren't buying anymore bullshit! Those "Teabaggers" you created didn't sell, or perform, as well as they should have - for all the money and time y'all poured into the ruse.

What the HELL?


Don't y'all HATE that?

Poor media, poor Congress, wait, no ....poor American people.......

[zbdent]

7. and where's the "throw them all out and start anew" theme which was

out there from the righties/TPers in 2010? I mean, the righties were saying that, and that, if they don't get the job done, vote THEM out and put in new ones ...

[Sheepshank]

8. That would be a troubling thought..

RW'ers getting rabid purist tea baggers in office to replace the ones they 'thought' were rabid purists. Those new people in office realizing that the Baggers were completely serious in what they expected, and realizing they have marching orders that cannot be compromised.

[zbdent]

11. might show some of the "independents" that the RWers and the repugs they put in

were far more psychotic that they bargained for ...

[BR_Parkway]

9. besides CEO's, staffers and family members - who else is saying yes?

Shrub used to consistently keep the brain dead 27% Gawd, Gays and Guns crowd - Congress has lost 2/3 of them

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Their solution is to ask everyone to stop hiring until Obama is out of office.

You just can't make this up. Fiction writers would be laughed at if they used such a plot device.