Congress Less Popular Than Used Car Salesmen?

Well, that's what the latest polling data tell us. This from Don Surber:

The new Reuters poll is out and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have pulled an upset: They have managed to make George Walker Bush twice as popular as Congress.

An even bigger majority, 83 percent, say the Democratic-controlled Congress is doing only a fair or poor job — the worst mark for Congress in a Zogby poll.

In the national survey of 1,012 likely voters, taken July 12 through July 14, about 66 percent said Bush had done only a fair or poor job as president, with 34 percent ranking his performance as excellent or good.

While 83 percent said Congress was doing a fair or poor job, just 14 percent rated it excellent or good. Last October, in its final days, the Republican-led Congress earned ratings of excellent or good from 23 percent of voters.

Got that? The Democratic Party gets 14% job approval. Bush 34%.

If this were a Little League game, the 10-run rule would apply.

Indeed. We thought the Dems had arrived in DC this past January to "save" us from W. Looks like the voters may have to "save" Congress from these incompetents in 2008.

Congressional Democrats are spinning their wheels trying to “get” George Bush. Democrats promised not to waste their time impeaching Bush. That is what they are doing. The public disdain for Democrats is overwhelming.

It took 12 years for Republicans to drop to 23%. Dems already are down to 14%. That means even Mom is starting to wonder about you.

14% job approval. Nixon did better. On the day he left office!

What we're seeing here is the endgame of the Socialist-Democrat party's Gramscian approach to destroying a capitalistic society.

• The Democrat-left alliance has, since WWII, infiltrated leftist judges into the judiciary—judges who legislate socialism from the bench, thus freeing elected officials from having to confront the voters with their own sorry records which would cause them to be defeated.
• The left has entirely infiltrated the Federal government, whose employees by and large are Democrats who work hard to achieve the socialist objectives of Democrat administrations and work just as hard to thwart the capitalist objectives of Republican administrations by serving as a kind of 5th column.
• The left has a nearly 100% hammerlock on public education and academia, ensuring that leftist propaganda has largely replaced legitimate study of history, literature, music, and cultural traditions going back to the beginning of our nation.
• And the artistic community has degenerated from a once-lively originality to an agglomeration of left-wing propaganda hacks dedicated to replacing America's heroic, successful narrative with a negative one that casts the U.S. as a villain in international relations far worse than the likes of Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, or Hitler.

The final result of this pincer movement? An uninformed public which increasingly confuses the rantings of narcissistic lefty entertainers with wisdom; several generations now of young people who no longer have any grasp of history or their place in its traditions and who are no longer truly capable of participating in civic discourse; and, perhaps most ominously, a current crop of politicians culled from the bottom of the intellectual barrel.

It is this latter manifestation of Gramscianism that is proving most crippling. With key issues readily delegated to activist judges, there is very little risk anymore to an incumbent. With idiotic disclosure requirements, very few potential politicians of much greater intellectual capacity are stepping forward to run for office, guaranteeing and increasing number of seats for life for the political mountebanks.

So it is small wonder that Congress today is so despised. Sure, the Democrats managed to throw out a significant number of corrupt Republicans last fall, due less to their own brilliance than it was to public disgust. But in barely 6 months, the new replacement Congress has proved itself less astute than the average Hollywood starlet, frivolously pandering to whatever seems popular this week, destroying confidence in our troops stationed abroad, and launching dozens, perhaps scores of idiotic "investigations" of the current administration meant solely to embarrass George W. Bush.

The current Congress has, in fact, done absolutely nothing of any consequence. For this reason, the public has already turned on them, and the consequences are going to be more severe than the media are painting them. The press is setting up 2008 as the election in which the Dems will sweep Congress and regain the White House. Well, there's always a surprise waiting for the preening overconfident among us. The current Congress is on track to accomplish absolute zero by November 2008. The voters know who's in power. The Democrats' slim majorities in both houses are more fragile than the press would lead you to believe, as demonstrated in the poll results above.

All the Repubs need to do is re-grow a little spine, get back to the party that advanced the Contract with America in 1994, and stop acting like Democrats. The swing voters who voted blue in 2006 are already sickened at the results. They'll be glad to come back. But only to politicians who show some moral and intellectual courage and some pride in our great country. That's the message here. Both parties ignore it at their own peril.