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It will be hard if not impossible for any Republican president to pass reform of any kind over a hostile or unwilling Congress.

Of course, other polls had Congress break the single digits there for a few weeks. Don't remember who ran that poll though...

I won't vote for somebody on one part of the ticket. But I am ALL FOR regaining control of Congress at least. If not Both houses...

"Guns don't kill people...
"...But they sure help!"
-Paul Giamatti, Shoot 'Em Up

is that with Congress' approval ratings reaching historic lows, both parties are nominating Senators for the White House.

"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill

and how can a responsible Congress ignore Paris Hilton?
The FISA bill can wait.

"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville

This statistical relationship has existed for a number of months.
Why hasn't the Republican leadership- ya know- led?
I would be pounding the snot out of Pinkie Pelossi and The Brain Reid all day everyday if I was in a leadership position. I would have mentioned this at the SOTU if I was writing for the Prez.
If I was McCain, I would make this a focal point of my criticism of the dhimmies and use it to grow coat tails.
The dhimmies ahve blown the war, they blew it for the wrong reason.
They have trashed the troops, trashed Americans in general, sought to jack up taxes, and managed to pass almost nothing at all.

The only reason Specter is pushing this so hard is that Comcast has him in their backpocket. Comcast and the NFL have been at each others throats over the NFL Network.

It's tempting to look at the record low approval numbers of Congress and hold that up as evidence that Americans don't support their "liberal agenda". What you have to keep in mind is that when asked a support/oppose question about a Democratic politician, conservatives are going to answer "oppose" because the person is too liberal, and liberals are going to answer "oppose" because they don't think they're going far /enough/.

Ultimately all it means is that they're not doing what their constituents want. It says nothing at all about what those constituents would rather they be doing, or what their policy aims are.

Its gonna be hard to do. Of course the numbskulls up there don't do the base any favors. When The President decides to get up on his hindlegs and do something about earmarks. It turns out the whores we sent to DC decided to cut them off.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777

To define & demarcate the bums who need to be bounced! Then, as political reality is what it is, see which ones have a legitimate chance of being bounced. After that, get behind the good conservative candidate to spearhead the bouncing...

Here is where the faulty reasoning lies:

Some have suggested that congress has a very low approval due to the people's discontent with its "liberal" performance.

Catsy posted a brilliant comment explaining that much of this discontent is the American people's belief that Democrats are not going far enough; for example, the same more troops are now in Iraq than were there in November.

Rasmussen conducted a poll that found that 53% of Americans thought congress has not done “enough to change President Bush’s policies in Iraq.”

It's also worth noting that AP did not poll Democrats in congress and Republicans in congress separately. In all polls that separated the parties so far, Democrats have held the edge.

In the latest ABC/ Washington Post poll (early February), Democorats in congress were given a 39% approval, against 30% for Republicans.