2013
And yet these guys are our elected representatives, ho, ho, ho🎅. All I want for Christmas is term limits … or smarter voters. I think I have a better chance at term limits. Hey, if you hire someone to do a job and they botch it up, do you keep hiring them? 👺 Then again the pool of candidates is mighty shallow and the pile of money keeping all this nonsense going might tall.
For voters, it seems, you can’t always get what you want. Only 12% of Likely U.S. Voters favor a federal budget that increases government spending, but that’s just what the bipartisan budget deal passed by the House late this week does.
It restores billions cut by the sequester on March 30 and puts off potential savings for several years. Fifty-six percent 56% want a long-term budget deal that cuts spending instead, but then only 29% expected Congress to reach such a deal to avoid another government shutdown.
No wonder just seven percent 7% think Congress is doing a good or excellent job. A plurality 47% now believes their representative in Congress is not the best person for the job, and 43% don’t think he or she deserves reelection. Both are highs for the year.
via What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls – Rasmussen Reports™.
QUINNSCOMMENTARY 
I want to see who is in the 7%.
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Good point. I guess they like all the hope and change.
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Regarding the low public opinion of Congress: Three other questions I would ask in a poll of public opinion on “Whether Congress is doing a good job?”,
1. Who is your Congressman/woman?
2. How many members are there in the U.S. House of Representatives?
3. How many congress members represent your state?
The majority of citizens do not know the answers to these questions.
What kind of elective government can be expected from an ignorant populace?
The kind we have.
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The idea that we can hold politicians’ “feet to the fire”re cuts in federal spending is a fairy tale.I don’t care what (political party) you subscribe to.We all know we are spending to much on stuff we don’t need(waste and incompetence) or don’t want(political paybacks and cronyism) and have given over our economic futures to politicians who simply don’t care.
The recent Ryan rapprochement with the Democratic party on the budget is just another “can” being kicked down the block,perhaps to detract from the Republican party being viewed as primarily responsible for every government shut down . If in the process it allows the Republicans to concentrate on the unpopular and in my opinion un-workable AHC plan than it could wind up favoring the Republicans come November/2014 elections.
As far as repealing the Obama care law, I believe this is another fairy tale. The train has already left the station on this one. We may see some adjustments, tweeking around the edges but I think the tipping point was reached over three years ago .The notion of universal health care has such a warm and fuzzy humanitarian, egalitarian ring to it .Regardless of who is in charge we can almost be assured that spending(the budget) and taxes will increase dramatically as the middle class further vanishes.
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I care about how much damage this idiots are doing. I sent a tweet to the Speaker yesterday and told him I disagreed with him bashing the Tea Party. We are people who want the Constitution followed, the budget balanced and the debt reduced. He is one of the problems along with 534 others in Congress.
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