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A new monthly Gallup poll has Congress’ approval rating at 31%, and hey, that’s not bad! Although the teevee kept saying that Obama and the Democrats had failed miserably during the stimulus debate while the Republicans found new life, the country “loves” Democrats now, and hates Republicans even more. NEED MORE ERIC CANTOR. [Gallup]
3:06 PM
on Tue February 17 2009
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Jim Newell
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Fuck the fucking fuckers. They only love spending when it kills somebody, viz. Iraq. But when it kills somebody, they’ll spend a metric buttload. Zillions for bullets, but not one dime for education.
Meanwhile, on all the talk shows tonight, the GOP spokestools will simply average the two numbers and insist that the Democratically controlled congress has a 30% approval rate, so the American people are clearly impatient with Nancy Pelosi and want Republicans back in charge.
HONOR AND DIGNITY!!!1!!
Also, I shall serenade them in their pain with soft sounds played on the world’s smallest violin. I think it’s nanoscale.
But wait– I thought the bill was a failure because it wasn’t all bipartisany. Does this mean that pundits and newspaper columnists are a bunch of idiots who have no idea what they’re talking about?
Are you saying people like Nancy & Harry? I’m still not convinced.
Texan Bulldoggette: Better than the Boner guy. Like/dislike is always relative. Whatevs.
All thanks to Roland (I Forgot That I Remembered) Burris.
Um — Independents?! Who? Joe Lieberman and maybe some socialist dude from New Hampshire, if he’s still even a member of Congress?
Careful how you interpret this graph. It divides respondents by party, but shows their approval of the Congress as a whole. What you’re seeing is that Congress (the whole damn thing) has gotten less popular among Republicans, not that that the Republicans in Congress have gotten less popular.
SayItWithWookies: Vermont, Bernie Sanders, still active.
Hooray For Anything: “Bipartisany” is to bipartisan as “truthiness” is to truth, so of course Republicans would prefer it to the real thing.
…at this rate Republicans will need to be put on the endangered species list by the end of the next election.
Important Question: Why did Obama sign the bill with 10 pens? It looked like he was writing each letter of his signature with a different one. The mind boggles.
If only the GOP had someone clever, you know, who could put together videos with music from washed-up ’70s hard rock bands.
TGY: You know his name is not pronounced BO-ner. That’s immature. It is pronounced BAY-nus.
FMA: I’m thinking Kansas’ “Dust in the Wind” might be appropiate
Red Zeppelin: Thanks for correcting that. I always thought it was pronounced SCRO-Tum.
Jewdishoowary Square: So among most voters (as represented above by Dems and independents), Congress as a whole has become more popular. Among Republicans, it is slightly less popular. No breakdown of who is held responsible for the increases or decreases, but either way it seems unlikely that the recent Mainstream Media Message about the big Obama/Democrat Fail on the Stimulus Package was justified or reasonable.
Objectivity in the media has apparently been reduced to giving “equal” hearing to whatever crazy points each side of an artificial oppositional divide wants to disseminate this week. This is what happened when hippies made us sit around in school singing kumbaya and being afraid to openly disagree on any issue. Meanwhile, everyone still secretly disagreed as much as ever; they merely ended up unable to articulate their differences or weigh relative merits of a position
Red Zeppelin: You are absolutely correct. I shall email Congressman Beenis’s office immediately with an apology.
But what does the Twitter Poll say, HEHNGHH? HEEENNNGGGHHH?
lampadadog: I thought it was when hippie teachers forced Generation X students to gobble acid and smoke doobs during naptime in kindergarten. Also.
Jewdishoowary Square: Dude! Total buzzkill. I was so happy when I was thinking that it meant that the Republicans in Congress had actually become less popular than Bush himself. In fact, because it made me happy to think that, I’m going to keep thinking that even if there is clear evidence that I’m wrong. It’s worked for Republicans lo these many years, so why can’t it work for me?
Jewdishoowary Square: Oh, okay — well that makes more sense with the Independents thing.
bitchincamaro: Thank you. I’m slightly ashamed for not taking the two minutes or so to Google that.
Gayer Than Thou: If it’s any consolation I did read something last week to the effect that Congressional Democrats’ approval ratings were higher than Congressional Republicans’. I think that’s generally been true for the last couple of years, also.
Well if I’m going to have a green phallic substitute, it may as well be the biggest and most impressive one of the bunch.
AngryBlakGuy: We can only hope for that change
FMA: No, that’s San-torum
@Hooray for Anything: oh no that can’t be it; the pundits are a lot of things but they are clearly never full of shit, that’s like saying the earth is spherical or something equally crazy.
My husband was listening to talk radio to stay awake during a drive (it works great for all of us, screaming at the mean-spirited, lying windbags instead of falling asleep at the wheel and going off the road and being paralyzed for life–try it!) and came home pissed (he doesn’t have the proper attitude) at what the Rightwingers are saying about the current depression:
Just before Bush was “forced out of office” (whaaahh????) he was minutes away from signing a bill that would have fixed everything that the gay guy and Nancy Pelosi’s fucked up.
No one give’s a shit about bipartisanship. That’s just a high-school civics way of saying they want politicians to shut the fuck and fix shit. I think the Democrats in congress should just go full speed ahead and fix shit. Mitch “Who Took My Lips” Mcconnell, Dixie Jew and Boner keep flapping their gums. And, please, Dems–let the Rs filibuster.
Are the Democrats, Independents, and Republicans referred to in that chart supposed to be how voters from 3 groups approve of the Congress overall, or how voters overall approve of the 3 groups in Congress? The former makes more sense than the latter, since there are not a lot of Indepedents in the Congress to approve or disapprove of.
SayItWithWookies: Hey, that’s my SENATOR, salty old Vermonter Bernie Sanders. I don’t think he’s real good buddies with Joe.
This whole thing boils down to how the question is asked. If someone were to call me in the midst of my daily teeth-grinding session while reading ONCE AGAIN how Harry Reid has no Nutz, Truck-based or otherwise, and ask how I liked Congress, I’d tell them that I’D LIKE THEM JUST FINE AS LONG AS THEY ATE THIS HERE BAG O’ DICKS THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! And then I’d rip a phone book in half and fuck a Coke machine. The usual.
I love this shit from Kit “Why Does David Hasselhoff keep climbing on my back” Bond, R, MO. Pimping the stimulus bill he voted against:
http://tinyurl.com/batmaq