60% of Americans want ENTIRE Congress thrown out

[davidn3600]

Throw the bums out.

That's the message 60 percent of Americans are sending to Washington in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, saying if they had the chance to vote to defeat and replace every single member of Congress, including their own representative, they would. Just 35 percent say they would not.

The 60 percent figure is the highest-ever in that question recorded in the poll, registered in the wake of the government shutdown and threat of the U.S. defaulting on its debt for the first time in history. If the nation's debt limit is not increased one week from now, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warns that the entire global economy could be in peril.

"We continue to use this number as a way to sort of understand how much revulsion there is," said Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted the poll with Republican Bill McInturff. "We now have a new high-water mark."

The numbers reflect a broader trend over the last few years. Americans have traditionally said that while they might not like Congress, they usually like their own representatives. But that sentiment appears to have shifted.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fire-em-majority-want-toss-113038670.html

[BluegrassStateBlues]

1. The other 40% live in blue districts.

[bluestate10]

4. You make an accurate point. When I am on Blogs, it is the most racist, arrogant, conservative

posters talking about throwing all of Congress out. They want it replaced by people that agree ONLY with them. Progressives and true moderates don't think in terms of elimination, that isn't in their character. The OP posted something that was posted on DU last night. I can't understand why DU Admins allow it to keep getting posted.

[Ron Green]

2. That's the plan, isn't it, to drive more and more people away from having anything to do with

government, elections, public discourse?

As Rick Wolff points out, rich people have to minimize whatever political activity may threaten their economic activity.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Everybody wants to throw all the bums out

except their own.

Which is why we're in the mess we're in.

I don't care how many you want to throw out.

You only get to throw out one.

Now do it.

[NightWatcher]

5. were hot tar and feathers an option?

Except for my guy/lady, I like them. It's all those Others who should be thrown out.

Fwiw, I like my rep for the first time in my life, she's a firecracker liberal, Corrine Brown D FL

[Shrike47]

6. I've got myself a flaming Populist and I love him (Pete DeFazio). Wouldn't throw him out.

His opponent the last two elections has been Crazy Artie Robinson, who is now asking everybody to send him urine for analysis.

[NuclearDem]

7. The list of people I can stand in Congress doesn't even hit double digits.

With those very, very few exceptions, throw them all out.