Poll: Americans as unhappy as ever with Congress...

[nmbluesky]

REALLY? WHO FAULT TO WIN CONGRESS ELECTION LAST NOVEMBER.. NOW THEY WHINE AGAIN. WHO? WHO?
TEA PARTY!!!!

WASHINGTON — Americans voted to turn over control of Congress to Republicans last fall, but a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds they remain as unhappy as they have ever been with Capitol Hill. By more than 2-1, voters say most members of Congress don't deserve re-election, matching an historic low reached last spring. Just 28% say most members should get another term in office; 63% say most should be replaced.
Feverish discontent with Congress last year fueled the conservative Tea Party movement and cost Democrats their hold on the House. The levels of dyspepsia are higher now than they were just before elections in 1994, 2006 and 2010, all years when control changed hands.
The failure of the new GOP majority to turn around attitudes isn't a surprise, says John Pitney, a congressional scholar at Claremont McKenna College in California.
"The economy is still in tough shape, and if people read stories in the paper about Congress, words like 'deadlock' and 'deficit' come up," he says. "That's not a recipe for a happy electorate."

That unhappiness typically is taken out on the party in power. Among incumbents, 52 Democrats and just two Republicans lost their House seats in November.
"Republicans are going to have to defend some seats because they picked up a lot of seats, so they should look at this with a bit of trepidation," says Bertram Johnson, a political scientist at Middlebury College in Vermont. "although it's too far before the election yet to panic."t

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-05-17-poll-congress_n.htm

[Drale]

1. That seems to be the American way

Vote one way, then bitch and moan about it.

[MichiganVote]

2. Greatest generation meet the Shittiest Generation

[Andy823]

3. But don't forget

Another reason republicans and teabaggers won is because a huge number of those on the left did NOT vote, for one reason or another! If you check the numbers you will find that republicans and teabaggers came out to vote, but IF those on the left who didn't vote had taken the time to vote, most of those republicans and teabaggers would never have been elected!

Wisconsin is a perfect example. I read here on DU that something like 800,000 less people turned out to vote in 2010 than did in 2008. In my state of Washington, there were over a half million less voters, which prevented us from passing a bill to raise taxes on those making over $250,000 a year. The big money came out and fought it and the bill did not pass, but if the voter turn out had been larger it could have made it!

People need to realize that not voting allows the right to take over, and they did a good job of it in 2010. We may not like what is happening in politics, but it's obvious that letting republicans take over is far, far, far worse than having democrats in charge, even if we don't like everything that they have done so far, it isn't even close to what has happened with republicans running some state, and the house!

[RKP5637]

4. +1000 +++ n/t

[Fumesucker]

5. Hmm.. Congress hasn't been all that popular for quite some time..

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." -Mark Twain