FARK.com: (6882741) New polls show disapproval of Congress has reached a record high of 84%, although a closer examination of the data reveals that 16% of respondents were, drunk, high, in mental instutions, and/or members of Congress

		New polls show disapproval of Congress has reached a record high of 84%, although a closer examination of the data reveals that 16% of respondents were, drunk, high, in mental instutions, and/or members of Congress (news.yahoo.com)		67
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Aarontology

2012-01-17 10:13:56 AM

And later this year America will go to the polls and re-elect the vast majority of them because they hate the other side so goddamned much and nothing will change.

what_now

2012-01-17 10:51:07 AM

Aarontology: And later this year America will go to the polls and re-elect the vast majority of them because they hate the other side so goddamned much and nothing will change.

Actually, what you see with sky high congressional disapproval is a lot of people- myself included- like *THEIR* congressman, but hate yours, so there's nothing they can do about it.

johnny_stingray

2012-01-17 11:13:52 AM

tar and feathers, anyone?

Don't Troll Me Bro!

2012-01-17 11:14:00 AM

what_now: Aarontology: And later this year America will go to the polls and re-elect the vast majority of them because they hate the other side so goddamned much and nothing will change.

Actually, what you see with sky high congressional disapproval is a lot of people- myself included- like *THEIR* congressman, but hate yours, so there's nothing they can do about it.

Done in two. This is why congress is broken, and why the HoR will not change for the better anytime soon.

StopLurkListen

2012-01-17 11:17:29 AM

Don't Troll Me Bro!: what_now: Aarontology: And later this year America will go to the polls and re-elect the vast majority of them because they hate the other side so goddamned much and nothing will change.

Actually, what you see with sky high congressional disapproval is a lot of people- myself included- like *THEIR* congressman, but hate yours, so there's nothing they can do about it.

Done in two. This is why congress is broken, and why the HoR will not change for the better anytime soon.

"Congress" refers to both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Republicans will point to this generic dissatisfaction as a reason to flip the Senate to R control, to change it for the "better", too.

Disposable Rob

2012-01-17 11:18:00 AM

thurstonxhowell

2012-01-17 11:18:03 AM

The average senator has a net +3 approval rating. Link

HotIgneous Intruder

2012-01-17 11:18:26 AM

They're like a big corporation acting on behalf of the people.

Everybody hates them collectively but no one individual is reviled enough to be forced to take personal responsibility for any heinous act or measure or vote.
There's literally no person accountable for their actions.
Congress is like a huge organized crime gang with the best protection in the world.

It's the perfect arrangement if you're a craven hell-bound thief in a $2,000 dollar suit.

HotWingConspiracy

2012-01-17 11:18:36 AM

Congress? Yeah, I love them, they're great. Wait....is this Obama? You dick.

Rann Xerox

2012-01-17 11:20:49 AM

johnny_stingray: tar and feathers, anyone?

I'm thinking a guillotine would be more apropos.

indylaw

2012-01-17 11:21:07 AM

Thank goodness the Tea Party Came in to make Congress "better."

Pants full of macaroni!!

2012-01-17 11:21:21 AM

When it gets to be 85%, do we get to disband the government or what?

StopLurkListen

2012-01-17 11:21:36 AM

Disposable Rob: what_now: Aarontology: And later this year America will go to the polls and re-elect the vast majority of them because they hate the other side so goddamned much and nothing will change.

Actually, what you see with sky high congressional disapproval is a lot of people- myself included- like *THEIR* congressman, but hate yours, so there's nothing they can do about it.

My Congress Rep is Lamar Smith, so I get to HATE ALL CONGRESSMEN.

My Congressman is a woman, so I get to hate gender-specific job titles. (Actually, all 3 of my Congressmen are women - the Representative and two Senators)

Man.

what_now

2012-01-17 11:23:01 AM

StopLurkListen: "Congress" refers to both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Republicans will point to this generic dissatisfaction as a reason to flip the Senate to R control, to change it for the "better", too.

Ok, but it's not like I can do anything to get rid of most senators or congressman.

I have two races in November, one for Congress and one for Senate.

I can't do anything about Michelle Bachman or Steve King. I can just help get rid of Scott Brown.

HotIgneous Intruder

2012-01-17 11:23:20 AM

Gaw-damned Federalist bastarts!

They were against that Repubican twig Jefferson's Louisiana purchase, as well.

/Hatchet-faced nutmeg sellers, the lot of them.

Serious Black

2012-01-17 11:27:21 AM

what_now: Aarontology: And later this year America will go to the polls and re-elect the vast majority of them because they hate the other side so goddamned much and nothing will change.

Actually, what you see with sky high congressional disapproval is a lot of people- myself included- like *THEIR* congressman, but hate yours, so there's nothing they can do about it.

Nah. What you actually see is that it costs an ass-ton of money to run an election campaign and the only way to do that if you're not already obscenely wealthy is to buddy up with the obscenely wealthy and largest corporations.

Robespierre

2012-01-17 11:30:09 AM

We should have a national sacrificial congressman an senator. Every election season, you get to vote for one of the 538 to murder on live TV. Preferably, you lop their heads, but firing squad will do. On, and this is good even if you resign, until the end of the term you would have served, so quitting because you are unpopular won't get you out of it.

Add some risk to the job.

Maduin

2012-01-17 11:30:46 AM

Oh, so it's gone up from 5% approval (give or take 3%) all the way to 16% in about a month.

Right on, good to know more people are approving after the embarrassment that was last month.

Link (9% slightly more popular than herpes!)

Link (here it is at 5%, with a bonus 86% stat!)

LarryDan43

2012-01-17 11:31:05 AM

Yeah, but my guy is great because he gets us earmarks, the rest of them are all bstards for getting earmarks.

realmolo

2012-01-17 11:32:01 AM

Republicans are the problem. As usual.

The Republican party, and conservatives in general, are a curse on this country. The US simply can't keep electing these evil, shortsighted, moronic farks if we expect to hold together as a country.

Emposter

2012-01-17 11:34:49 AM

Our representatives spend all their time trying to make us hate all the other representatives so that we're distracted while they pass legislation which would otherwise make us hate them. Some portion falls for it, and hates the people they're told to hate, while the rest recognize the crap Congress does, and hate them for it. Playing the sides against each other has turned out to be a wildly successful strategy for controlling the public, allowing Congress to pass more crap we hate, making us hate them more, and thus the cycle continues, and disapproval rises as we continue to do nothing about it.

Dusk-You-n-Me

2012-01-17 11:35:33 AM

But they're working so hard. Link (new window)

Lunchlady

2012-01-17 11:36:27 AM

I hate my local congressman. But I'm well aware he will win in a landslide. As will my Senators.

Voting "not Democrat" in Los Angeles doesn't really get me anywhere, I really think every state should have the "neither" option that some do.

Gergesa

2012-01-17 11:37:34 AM

Though I don't know about everyone else, my own state is pretty much locked by one party(R.) So I propose we have a diplomatic exchange where we exchange politicians from different countries that are roughly analogous just to see what happens. I will trade my republican reps for whatever passes as republican in south korea. They will need a translator and their maybe some serious social adjustments to be made but all in all its not like south korean republicans are going to be worse.

come on, let's start trading and see what happens.

Pants full of macaroni!!

2012-01-17 11:39:17 AM

Robespierre: We should have a national sacrificial congressman an senator. Every election season, you get to vote for one of the 538 to murder on live TV. Preferably, you lop their heads, but firing squad will do. On, and this is good even if you resign, until the end of the term you would have served, so quitting because you are unpopular won't get you out of it.

Add some risk to the job.

Make it monthly and I think you'll see a lot more support.

neritz

2012-01-17 11:40:35 AM

what_now: Aarontology: And later this year America will go to the polls and re-elect the vast majority of them because they hate the other side so goddamned much and nothing will change.

Actually, what you see with sky high congressional disapproval is a lot of people- myself included- like *THEIR* congressman, but hate yours, so there's nothing they can do about it.

I hate my Congressman, but there is nothing I can do about it (he's in the Tea Party crowd). Where I live, if you vote anything other than Republican, you're throwing your vote away.

/upstate Derpland, er..South Carolina

brigid_fitch

2012-01-17 11:41:16 AM

what_now: Aarontology: And later this year America will go to the polls and re-elect the vast majority of them because they hate the other side so goddamned much and nothing will change.

Actually, what you see with sky high congressional disapproval is a lot of people- myself included- like *THEIR* congressman, but hate yours, so there's nothing they can do about it.

My Congressman is a do-nothing social conservative that I've tried to get rid of for years. But because I live in an area full of senior citizens, he keeps getting voted back in.

Bag of Hammers

2012-01-17 11:43:00 AM

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Don't Troll Me Bro!

2012-01-17 11:46:25 AM

StopLurkListen: Don't Troll Me Bro!: what_now: Aarontology: And later this year America will go to the polls and re-elect the vast majority of them because they hate the other side so goddamned much and nothing will change.

Actually, what you see with sky high congressional disapproval is a lot of people- myself included- like *THEIR* congressman, but hate yours, so there's nothing they can do about it.

Done in two. This is why congress is broken, and why the HoR will not change for the better anytime soon.

"Congress" refers to both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Republicans will point to this generic dissatisfaction as a reason to flip the Senate to R control, to change it for the "better", too.

I didn't state that very well. I know Congress includes both the HoR and the Senate. The point remains. Most people approve of their rep. Most people disapprove of the HoR. I approve of Tammy Baldwin and intend to vote for her again, but I'm quite disgusted with the HoR. There's nothing I can do about it. Last election a teapublican challenged her, and that was all that was on the ballot for that race. If I write in a candidate that makes it more likely a teabagger will end up taking her spot. Then I'd be disgusted not only with the HoR, but also my rep for adding to the latest "I'm more conservative than everyone else and that means everyone else is a libby leftist liberal socialist" movement.

HotIgneous Intruder

2012-01-17 11:48:13 AM

So it's OK to like the people but to hate the corporation (USA, Inc.) for which they work.
Check.
Gotcha.

StopLurkListen

2012-01-17 11:49:47 AM

Don't Troll Me Bro!: StopLurkListen: Don't Troll Me Bro!: what_now: Aarontology: And later this year America will go to the polls and re-elect the vast majority of them because they hate the other side so goddamned much and nothing will change.

Actually, what you see with sky high congressional disapproval is a lot of people- myself included- like *THEIR* congressman, but hate yours, so there's nothing they can do about it.

Done in two. This is why congress is broken, and why the HoR will not change for the better anytime soon.

"Congress" refers to both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Republicans will point to this generic dissatisfaction as a reason to flip the Senate to R control, to change it for the "better", too.

I didn't state that very well. I know Congress includes both the HoR and the Senate. The point remains. Most people approve of their rep. Most people disapprove of the HoR. I approve of Tammy Baldwin and intend to vote for her again, but I'm quite disgusted with the HoR. There's nothing I can do about it. Last election a teapublican challenged her, and that was all that was on the ballot for that race. If I write in a candidate that makes it more likely a teabagger will end up taking her spot. Then I'd be disgusted not only with the HoR, but also my rep for adding to the latest "I'm more conservative than everyone else and that means everyone else is a libby leftist liberal socialist" movement.

I didn't mean to call you out. I was just pointing out that 'generic Congressional dissatisfaction' can be spun to both parties' point of view since control of Congress is split.

Zombalupagus

2012-01-17 11:50:23 AM

Just for reference sake, can any of you Farkers find something with an equivalent approval/disapproval rate?

You know, something like that old commercial that implied that 1 out of 5 dentists didn't recommend fluoride toothpaste.

heinekenftw

2012-01-17 11:51:37 AM

what_now: Aarontology: And later this year America will go to the polls and re-elect the vast majority of them because they hate the other side so goddamned much and nothing will change.

Actually, what you see with sky high congressional disapproval is a lot of people- myself included- like *THEIR* congressman, but hate yours, so there's nothing they can do about it.

Not for me.

I might vote for my Rep, Mike Michaud, but there's way Snowe or Collins are getting any votes from me.

Michaud's done quite a few things I agree with, including voting against NDAA.

However, if Snowe or Collins get removed, I'll eat my hat.

sprawl15

2012-01-17 11:52:14 AM

Zombalupagus: Just for reference sake, can any of you Farkers find something with an equivalent approval/disapproval rate?

AIDS.

BMulligan

2012-01-17 11:52:27 AM

heinekenftw

2012-01-17 11:53:54 AM

sprawl15: Zombalupagus: Just for reference sake, can any of you Farkers find something with an equivalent approval/disapproval rate?

AIDS.

The IRS

Link (new window)

Lost Thought 00

2012-01-17 11:57:39 AM

Pants full of macaroni!!: When it gets to be 85%, do we get to disband the government or what?

The country gets defragmented, I believe.

utahraptor2

2012-01-17 11:59:27 AM

I think a lot of this could be fixed if we replaced first-past-the-post voting with the alternative voting system, and controlled gerrymandering.

monoski

2012-01-17 12:02:07 PM

Aarontology: And later this year America will go to the polls and re-elect the vast majority of them because they hate the other side so goddamned much and nothing will change.

Done in 1.

thurstonxhowell

2012-01-17 12:03:33 PM

StopLurkListen: I didn't mean to call you out. I was just pointing out that 'generic Congressional dissatisfaction' can be spun to both parties' point of view since control of Congress is split.

Actually, destroying faith in government is a win for the Republicans because morons think they'll get rid of it or something.

barneyfifesbullet

2012-01-17 12:03:57 PM

America always hates Congress.

Doesn't matter who is in charge.

barneyfifesbullet

2012-01-17 12:05:04 PM

But, my congressman is a good one is what you always hear.

Thank You Black Jesus!

2012-01-17 12:10:26 PM

Clearly the only solution is to elect more Republicans. Because Jesus.

daveUSMC

2012-01-17 12:12:18 PM

It's down to blood relatives and paid staffers!

Mrtraveler01

2012-01-17 12:17:50 PM

barneyfifesbullet: But, my congressman is a good one is what you always hear.

No, my congressman is a bible-thumping, Tea Party supporting dick.

what_now

2012-01-17 12:18:08 PM

heinekenftw: However, if Snowe or Collins get removed, I'll eat my hat.

Didn't the same teabaggers that got Governor "I hate unions so much I'll destroy public art work" elected promise they were going to primary Snowe?

I remember a few years ago, they were so mad at her that they decided to "melt" her, by sending her bags of ice melt.
In October.
o a woman who lives in Maine.

Magorn

2012-01-17 12:21:31 PM

Lunchlady: I hate my local congressman. But I'm well aware he will win in a landslide. As will my Senators.

Voting "not Democrat" in Los Angeles doesn't really get me anywhere, I really think every state should have the "neither" option that some do.

The real way to change things is to make the seemingly dry subject of "redistrciting reform" your personal poltical crusade.Gerrymandering congressional districts to create "Safe" seats has contributed to the radicalization and polarization of American politics. The more Congressmen who have a real fear of getting thrown out when they act like hyper-partisan asshats, the more we will see this country return to the middle poltically and practice the art of compromise, instead of lurching from pole to pole as we do now.

Rich Cream

2012-01-17 12:23:02 PM

Pants full of macaroni!!: When it gets to be 85%, do we get to disband the government or what?

Ahhh, the little known, appendix subsection amendment concerning the silent super majority. I believe if we can get this percentage of the population to vote on a general question regarding the employment of our representatives then there must be complete turnover of all elected, and appointed dept and cabinet heads.

No, really. If our founding fathers were serious about revolution they would have made it easier.

heinekenftw

2012-01-17 12:25:34 PM

what_now: heinekenftw: However, if Snowe or Collins get removed, I'll eat my hat.

Didn't the same teabaggers that got Governor "I hate unions so much I'll destroy public art work" elected promise they were going to primary Snowe?

I remember a few years ago, they were so mad at her that they decided to "melt" her, by sending her bags of ice melt.
In October.
o a woman who lives in Maine.

I don't remember hearing that she was going to be primaried by teabaggers. Though I do find it funny that she's considered a RINO yet she's lockstep with the GOP most of the time.

At anyrate, that could be interesting if they did that. It could split the vote and put a democrat in her office, or split the vote and put the bagger in office in a similar manner to how we got stuck with LePage. Or her base will remain strong and she'll win again anyways.

Rev. Skarekroe

2012-01-17 12:30:57 PM

Just so everyone knows, some of us don't like OUR congressman either.

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