Public approval ratings: President Bush: 29%. Congress: 11%.
That is the result of a recent Zogby Poll.
So what can you say about a situation that words can not aptly describe? In essence, you have two competing forces -- the Bush administration and the Democratic Congress -- in control of the Executive Branch and the Legislature whom the public absolutely despises? How about "You need to get your act together. Both of you."
It is difficult to pinpoint any one particular issue that has led to this drop because most of the problems are so voluminous that it's getting to the point where the public is longing for the good old days when King George ran the show. You have the emergence of a mortgage crisis that no one seems to know how to address; the current attempt to pass a piece meal amnesty program, the DREAM Act, in bold defiance of the public's will; the Democratic leadership getting lumped in with the far, far left due to the now legendarily disastrous "Betray Us" ad; the President planning on vetoing the bill that will de-fund the incredibly anti-union/anti-middle class Mexican truck program; refusal to deal with the importation of unsafe goods from China; and on and on and on.
While few assumed that President Bush's approval ratings could get worse, they have and the Pelosi/Reid Congress has been an absolute, unmitigated failure. 11% is the lowest approval rating in the history of the United States.
Let's put that into perspective: Bush is right up (down) there with Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and this Congress is less popular than the Congress that served during the time when half the country seceded from the union and a war broke out that saw 600,000 casualties.
Will things get better? Can they get any worse?

Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. THIS PRESIDENT AND HIS JOKERS SCREWED UP THIS COUNTRY HERE AND ALL OVER THE WORLD....THIS CONGRESS HAS NO GUTS TO REACT....A BUNCH OF CLOWNS AT WASHINGTON...
gt at 11:19AM on Sep 19th 2007
2. Get real .. The "democratic congress" doesn't exist .. It's a deadlocked congress .. The reason the "congress" polls so low is because Americans are sick and tired of the republicans stopping any kind of progress ..
alexkreuz at 1:12PM on Sep 20th 2007
3. We have to do something about Iraq. We should not fund it. Our troops should come out of there. And we should have better dialogue with the other countries. Especially Iran. We should not go to war with them. We relly should use diplomacy. We're so much in debt now that if we fund the war again, it really is not going to do any good. I heard ex-general Sanchez on television. He says the surge will not work. I believe him.
antonietta speranzo at 1:09PM on Oct 24th 2007