The other 9% are uninformed.

and the GOP controls congress - outright in the house and by the tyranny of the minority in the senate. it's shaping up to be 1948 all over again for obama.

Useless since most will keep voting their congress critter back into office.

9%? At that point you're down to blood relatives and paid staffers.

Bunnyhat: Useless since most will keep voting their congress critter back into office.

Yep. No matter who controls congress, EVERYONE always hates "Congress" but everyone loooooooooves them some pork, so you gotta make sure that your congressman has the seniority needed to get you pork.

Until it does NOT take millions of dollars and affairs with lobbyists to serve in public office, the halls of Congress will continue to be filled with all manner of scum and villany.

who farking cares?
congress does not represent you. your congressman represents you.
who farking cares that you dont like other peoples congresscritters???

Quasar: 9%? At that point you're down to blood relatives and paid staffers.

Hey! John McCain's a FARKer!

make me some tea: The other 9% are uninformed comatose.

FTFY

MaudlinMutantMollusk: make me some tea: The other 9% are uninformed comatose.

FTFY

Similar concepts.

And yet the idea that the way our Congress is structured is broken is still an opinion basically no one espouses. It's all about personality, amiright?

I don't know why they don't specify what part of Congress they disapprove of? The Senate sucks, but the House is the cause of so much of all this...

Msol: I don't know why they don't specify what part of Congress they disapprove of? The Senate sucks, but the House is the cause of so much of all this...

It's actually the exact opposite.

So...the majority of people polled think Obama is clueless about growing jobs...but they think the Republicans in Congress are even MORE clueless.

What's a guy to do??

They are mad that Obama can't seem to get around congress. That's why people are disappointed.

And they hate what's going on in congress, but it never seems to be THEIR congress critter causing the problem.

John Adams: I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress! And by God, I have had this Congress! 1776

How odd, what with all the great bills being put forth by the lower body.

/golly, who controls that 1/2 branch?

Quasar: 9%? At that point you're down to blood relatives and paid staffers.

Now these sound like true numbers.

Bunnyhat: Useless since most will keep voting their congress critter back into office.

Maybe not

From an article in August

"Among them (independent voters) 65 percent say they want their own House representative tossed out in 2012, compared with 53 percent of respondents generally."Link (new window)

That was an 87% disapproval rate in that report.

farkityfarker: Is it possible that our current political process isn't working for the interests of the people?

Sure it is. If your interest is making Obama a one-term President. So we can return Washington to total Republican control. And relive the prosperity of the 2000's.

Oh Good Christ

rtaylor92: None of the crap either side are espousing is going to have the major systemic changes that our economy needs.

That's because there is no "either side". Our President is pushing for a tax-cut based plan derived from a Ouija-board conversation with Reagan, then tilted a little further to the right. The only reason the GOP is against it is because it came from Obama, and their professed, #1 priority is to make Obama a 1-term President. Any improvement in the economy puts their #1 priority at risk.

This country is so completely and utterly farked. Our government can't even manage to sit there and do nothing; it correctly identifies the correct course of action and then does the exact opposite. No wonder approval is at 9%.