Recently an important poll by some important polling agency indicated that Congress gets a 10 % approval rating from the American people. Good or Bad ?
Good if it means we have very high expectations of our legislators and are not pleased with their performance. Good if we expect our lawmakers to be the very smartest and wisest among us.
Bad if the ratings prove we the voters are consistently duped into electing bozos every election cycle. Bad if we expect little more than free goodies from our government. And, bad if we expect our legislators to spend every penny from the Treasury to fulfill all our wants and needs in return for our vote.
I shutter to imagine the state of our nation if congressional approval registered at 80 or 90 %. Would a very high ratings mean we were approaching a Utopian society or that most of us had drank too deeply from the stupid bucket ? I believe most voters would quickly admit that their representative is a pretty good fellow and the real clowns in congress are folks from the other states.
Should we worry that we've already elected too many pretty faces and charlatans ? Hell yes. Will we do anything about it in 2014 and 2016 ?
Good if it means we have very high expectations of our legislators and are not pleased with their performance. Good if we expect our lawmakers to be the very smartest and wisest among us.
Bad if the ratings prove we the voters are consistently duped into electing bozos every election cycle. Bad if we expect little more than free goodies from our government. And, bad if we expect our legislators to spend every penny from the Treasury to fulfill all our wants and needs in return for our vote.
I shutter to imagine the state of our nation if congressional approval registered at 80 or 90 %. Would a very high ratings mean we were approaching a Utopian society or that most of us had drank too deeply from the stupid bucket ? I believe most voters would quickly admit that their representative is a pretty good fellow and the real clowns in congress are folks from the other states.
Should we worry that we've already elected too many pretty faces and charlatans ? Hell yes. Will we do anything about it in 2014 and 2016 ?
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