Reid: Low Congressional Approval Bush’s Fault
For the first time in the history of Rasmussen polling, Congress has an approval rating in the single digits. Not to worry says Harry Reid, who does not attribute the low approval ratings to his Congress, but to President Bush.
“Any time, I repeat, any time you have a president that is down so, so far in poll numbers, it drags down a city council member,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. “It drags down any elected official, including us, and we recognize that.”
Although 62% of voters say Congress has not passed any legislation to improve life in America, and a whopping 72% think most members of Congress are more interested in furthering their own political careers than helping the American people, Reid can sum up American’s dismay in three words. It’s Bush’s Fault!
Note to Harry Reid, in order for someone to “drag you down” as you have described the President doing, they must first be below you. With the President’s approval rating hovering around the 30% mark, it is very unlikely he is having much of an affect on the do nothing Congress. More likely, it is due to Congress’ failure to enact meaningful immigration reform, an energy policy that actually has the intent purpose of reducing prices, or passing a budget that does not dig us even deeper into debt.
Then again, the low approval ratings may simply be the result of having a spineless legislature which refuses to ever atone for their mistakes, and would prefer to blame their failures on others.
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Idiots the lot of them… of course blame anyone but themselves! Reid just makes my blood boil with stupid comments like that! WAKE UP PEOPLE VOTE THEM ALL OUT!
A big majority of our economy problems are linked to high fuel and energy bills. While speaking at the Iowa GOP Convention; Gov. Huckabee said, “If somebody is going to get rich drilling oil, it ought to be Americans.” Huckabee later said, “The people on the coasts of America have forgotten something. We don’t elect a president to solve all our problems, you elect a president to leave us alone to solve our own problems.”
President Bush lifted the executive ban on American drilling. Now if we could just get Congress to lift the Congressional ban and “leave us alone to solve our own problems” we might get through this. The first step is for Speaker Pelosi to allow the discussion to be brought to the floor.
Pelosi was so upset when Bush lifted the executive drilling ban that she gave out his phone number and told people to call him and complain. One of her fellow Congressmen did unto her what she did unto Bush. He released her number and encouraged us to call her at 202-225-0100 to express our feelings.