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An overwhelming 84 percent of Americans disapprove of how Congress is holding its job. That is the highest level of disapproval ever found in Gallup polling. The poll found only 13 percent actually approve of Congress’s job performance which is ties the record low set in December of 2010. From Gallup:
Independents have the lowest approval of Congress ever at 9% approve – 86% disapproval, while approval from partisans is slightly higher it is still historically low.
We are in uncharted territory as tonmwhat these abysmal numbers for Congress will mean in the 2012 election. It is possible this record level of disapproval could be expressed by individuals voting against any incumbent member of Congress or result in very low turnout among independents.
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Aren’t we getting pretty close to the “armed insurrection” percentages as explained and espoused in the book, “Political Revolutions for Dummies”?
And yet over half think their congresscritter should be re-elected: it’s all the others that suck moose balls.
The American people are sending their Congress a message. What we have witnessed, in an ever-increasing presence, is political terrorism in ways, and at levels never-before seen. As we have learned more about how messy democracy actually is, the more concerned we have become. But, this?
The American people did send their new elected leaders to Congress with a message, but this was NOT it! The message sent was:
“No more politics as usual. Work together to solve the problems our people are facing.”
What we have gotten IS different politics. The Tea Party has terrorized the American people. The Republican leadership in the House has caved ever so much more than President Obama. Facing a constant firestorm of disruptive, distracting non-issue legislative gridlock, and “Ransom” demands, the American public is much more than sickened.
Democracy still lives, and it still works. There is, however, a rising groundswell against the party politics that refuse, en masse to work for the people of this nation, but rather their own aggrandizement and the next election. Any who doubt or disagree with this would be best served to put their ear a bit closer to the ground.
The likes of what we witnessed with the completely manufactured Debt Limit “crisis”, for none other than to extract impossible demands from a few, at the expense (as we now see) of the many millions, will have consequences to our continuing economic free-fall, set BACK into motion as a direct result of the Tea Party’s intractable refusal to consider the good of the country.
But, Democracy lives still. I support our President. I do not completely agree with him. He represents the very best hope of the very real and immediate future of the nation I have loved, defended, and participated in for the whole of my life as a citizen.
The Tea Party wishes to not amend the Constitution. They wish to remove it. The Tea Party does not wish to make government smaller, they wish to completely eliminate government, and publicly say so. Candidates wish to pilfer the Treasury, remove regulations and those agencies which are tasked with the making of them; suggest States secceed from our Union, while eliminating no less than 8 Amendments to our Constitution, while instituting 3 new and prohibitive Amendments; believe that Corporations are people, with all the rights of citizenship (except of course, following our laws); cannot tell the difference between a Birthday and a Death Day….
There is a point at which it will be the American people, reasonably said to have begun in Wisconsin, who will collectively shout “ENOUGH!”. They will do it universally, unanimously, and peacefully. Why?
Because this is America. We are Americans. Democracy lives, and the Lady still shines her light in the Harbor. We may have difficult days ahead, but will remember. Oh, yes. We will remember.