From today's Rush....
Don Surber: "The War is twice as popular as Congress. Under Democratic leadership, the 110th Congress is the least popular Congress since pollsters began measuring this. Various polls peg the disapproval at various numbers at various times. But one thing doesn’t change: Worst Congress ever. Democratic apologists say that this is because Congress has failed to end the war. Well, that may explain the low marks on the Democratic end. But the 63 votes so far this year on the war obviously are turning off independents and Republicans. Let us review. In November, Gallup pegged the Congressional job approval at 20% with 69% disapproval. In December, Gallup found that 40% of Americans think the Surge is working, 39% say not working. And while 57% now say going into Iraq was a mistake, 41% say it was not a mistake. Apparently 69% say electing this Congress was a mistake. Only 20% apparently believe this Congress was not a mistake. While obviously the questions are slightly different, the pollster is the same: Gallup."
Maybe Congress needs to redeploy to Okinawa and not the troops. (laughing) War 40, Congress 20, and 69% say electing this Congress was a mistake. Speaking of this Congress: "Each day lately, Democrats inch closer to giving President Bush more money for the war in Iraq without any serious mandates for withdrawing US troops. Democratic leaders are loath to acknowledge they've backed off, but lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, as well as congressional aides, say Democrats are trying to find a way to provide continued troop funding while searching for some compromises that show they're still intent on challenging the president on the war. ... According to one senior Democratic lawmaker, there's a growing discomfort among pro-defense Democrats about linking a $50 billion Iraq measure to troop withdrawal. 'We have to come off this lack of funding for the military operations,' the lawmaker said. 'We have to continue the funding. We don't want to look like we're against troop funding. ... We should separate the funding discussion from the rest of the war.' ... Additionally, lawmakers who represent areas with large military bases fear that layoff notices could go out to civilian military employees just a week before Christmas if the Pentagon has to pull money from other accounts to pay for the war."
That's another thing that's driving the fear here. Layoff notices, civilian workers at the Pentagon, one week before Christmas. The question must be asked here, folks, how in the world will these civilian workers who are laid off afford the sleigh ride at Jellystone National Park? That's a reference to the last government shut down. Everybody got paid, but the Jellystone sleigh ride operator got laid off. (laughing) He called Larry King. He was on Larry King first. He called in here and he had a beef with me. He wanted to set me straight on this. So poor Democrats, war 40, Congress 20, and 69% thinking electing this Congress was a mistake. They've had 63 resolutions and votes to try to end the war and get the troops out. They've failed on every one of them, with a lame duck president in the last year. Now they're trying to figure out how they can give the money and have their stupid idiot base not realize they're doing it. (laughing) And now the layoff notices at the Pentagon. (laughing) Excuse me, folks. I just love seeing these people implode. They're imploding all over.
--Rush Limbaugh, December 6, 2007
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Without a doubt, people are disatisfied with our leaders. Nearly all of them. We are a nation divided in many critical ways.
However, if you move from The Congress as a whole, to individual representatives within their districts, those numbers change. I think that's fair to note. We're not crazy about our own leadership, from state to state, but we're nowhere near as disatisfied with them on a one to one basis as we are with the whole, and for some of the reasons Rush suggests here.
I, for one, am glad to have at least one representative now (Yarmuth) to finally come at least somewhere close to representing my community.
[and, to be fair, what you're talking about is the least popular congress in decades as judged by polls, not the worst. The president, on the other hand, may well be both the least popular AND the worst as judged by history. Time will tell...]
Having said that, THIS Democrat controlled Congress HAS failed more than FORTY times to attach coital interruptus language into war funding legislation. They HAVE shown themselves to be the ineffectual Grand Poobahs of cowardice and incompetence. The media is no better, especially since they excuse every democrat embarrassment while mocking the President and the Office he represents.... 'the monkey in the middle'? THAT reporterette should be fired!
In my final analysis, this Congress is pathetic. Mince words all you want, the polls show what they show... The Iraq war is TWICE as popular as THIS Democrat led Congress. Jack Murtha himself has declared that the surge is working, but Reid can do nothing but continue to parrot his "I hate Bush so much I absolutely refuse to give him any credit whatsoever however stupid it personally makes me look" assertions to the contrary. Mr. Reid is so unpopular in his own state that he may very well go the way of Tom Daschle the next time his number comes up. He is the epitome of milquetoast AND the source of the Democrat led Senate's ineffectualness.
Assuming Bush Derangement Syndrome is an ACTUAL malady, THIS Congress and the Left almost as a whole, surely suffers from it.
But just remember. Those who will write today's history-- fairly and accurately --have yet to be born.
Treating it as if it were real is just, well, you should be above that. You're no idiot. You understand that men and women of good faith can disagree strongly without being deranged.
Is BDS a real syndrome? Obviously not to those who find little or no fault in Democrats and their media handlers. But many are nonetheless irrational in their outright hatred of Bush. Many on the Vitriolic Left are most assuredly deranged and psychotic in their verbal and written ranting against Bush, Cheney, and Haliburton.
I'm not referring to those who disagree "strongly" (and how exactly do we describe 'strongly'? Quite differently, I assure you). Who I do refer to are such public idiots as Al Franken, David Gregory, Ted Kennedy, Jack Murtha (despite his momentary lapse of sanity), Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, and too many others here to name, but let's not leave out that reporterette who can't see well enough to tell the difference between the President of the United States and 'a monkey'.
Getting back to this posts' subject, THIS particular Congress has accomplished little or nothing of substance. And for all their bravura of opposing the hated Bush, they have caved day after day, unable to stand firm on their own principles, giving Bush pretty near everything he's asked for-- Demonstrating themselves the embodiment of the proverbial Rubber Stamp! --all the while trying to paint themselves as defenders of Freedom and Democracy, when they have shown themselves to be anything but...
They ARE the worst Congress in my four decades. And surprise, surprise! My dislike for Congress does not reach the level of vitriolic hatred that any casual passerby might find on such mainstream sites as 'The Daily Kos' or 'The Huffington Post'.
You're unwilling to cut Bush much slack, and from my perspective, willing to cut the Left beaucoups of slack; granting benefits of doubt to the Left while offering little or none to Bush and the Right. And that alone puts you and I at an ideological and political impasse.