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But people still vote for their reps and senators when it's election time.
Earmarks and pork for constituents have a funny way of getting these people re-elected again and again.
We will see. Until 2006 Congress was quite stable, with hiccups like 1994 occurring only rarely and often fewer then 10 seats changing hands. In 2006 and in every year since there have been massive swings of huge numbers of seats and now for the first time in history with a majority saying their Rep. does not deserve re-election we will see if that trend continues.
BTW, I'm a Republican but I feel like the poor congressional approval ratings are both parties' fault.
Me too. However, I do think that my Tea Party supporting Republican Representative has been doing a great job and refuse to agree to vote against him this early in his first year in the Congress.
Me too. However, I do think that my Tea Party supporting Republican Representative has been doing a great job and refuse to agree to vote against him this early in his first year in the Congress.
My Republican Congresswoman has been in office for about 15 years or so. She has been a huge advocate for large amounts of federal funding for a local project sponsored by an organization that her son is in some sort of high-level position in.
So...yeah...if there's a legitimate opponent I'll vote for someone else. The problem is - there never is.
Yeah, there are a few good ones there. Mine, a first termer, is doing great work although he doesn't always agree with Boehner. He sure is working for things the Tea Party people want and they elected him so he represents them.
Both parties are too blame and both parites are utterly useless worthelss self-serving scum that are in the whole thing for one thing...THEMSELVES! I would love to see all of them not only thrown out of office, but out living in the streets, broke with nothing, suffering like so many in our country have to because of their utter incompetence and corruptness!
That being said...The Republicans rank a couple nothces higher on the scum scale than the demorats do...So if I had to choose who's worse, it would be the Teapublicans!
It is both parties fault and I will vote against those incumbants whose voting record was for Keynesian economics, big spending, big government and against the US Constituion, as well as voting the Divider-in-Chief Obama, out of the Oval Office in 2012.
There is no doubt the 122th congress has been a mess. With the latest numbers coming in, congress has now plunged to it's lowest approval ratings in the history of the nation at an abysmal 11%
Notably the most fed up are the independents in which only 7% approve.
With these terrible numbers, there is a very good chance we are going to see some big changes coming up in 2012 in congress.
This poll is geared towards those independents on who you feel is leading to congress's inability to get nearly nothing done, it's record low numbers, and how will you vote in 2012?
How many bills from the House has Dirty Harry declared DOA and tabled in the pile in front of him not allowing standing committees to even see them, not allowing any votes, even up or down votes? Surely you can see what is going on and that it isn't all the fault of the House. Well, maybe you can't see that with your eyes closed, as they are.
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