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Post by jeffolie on Jul 14, 2007 11:28:01 GMT -6
AP Poll: Public gives Congress low marks By DARLENE SUPERVILLE ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., center, accompanied by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, and Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., discusses the war in Iraq during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 12, 2007. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook) WASHINGTON -- In the eyes of the public, Congress is doing even worse than the president. Public satisfaction with the job lawmakers are doing has fallen 11 points since May, to 24 percent, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll. That's lower than for President Bush, who hasn't fared well lately, either. Bush has been taking heat over the Iraq war, his decision to spare a former top vice presidential aide from going to prison and his desire for an overhaul of immigration laws that critics said would give a free pass to illegal immigrants. His job approval rating in the AP-Ipsos survey remained virtually unchanged at 33 percent. The 24 percent approval rating for Congress matched its previous low, which came in June 2006, five months before Democrats won control of the House and Senate due to public discontent with the job Republicans were doing seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Congress_AP_Poll.html
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Post by graybeard on Jul 15, 2007 10:02:13 GMT -6
Amnesty
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Post by liberalcapitalist on Jul 15, 2007 13:30:01 GMT -6
The republicans in congress who are still supporting Bush are preventing any action that could be taken.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Jul 15, 2007 20:44:36 GMT -6
As was pointed out again today by attorney Bruce(?) Fein on Bill Moyers, the Democrats do have considerable power in Congress-- the power of the purse. Congress could have taken Dennis Kucinich's position and just cut off funds for the Iraq War. And they can cut off funds for a lot of other expenditures as well.
In fact, there's plenty that a simple majority of Democrats in Congress can do. Regarding Iraq, they're just too worried about a phony "cut-and_run" label or a "not-supporting-the-troops" label.
On the Senate amnesty bill, a handful of Democrats and a majority of Republicans did what they could do to block it and succeeded-- they voted against cloture.
However, the fact that almost 1/2 of the Senate supported Amnesty showed constituents how little Senators care about the will of the people.
The cave-in on Iraq, and the closeness of passing the Senate's amnesty bill, have given Americans a lot to distrust Congress about.
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