Is what I just heard correct?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

19%??? The Congress's approval rating is 19%???!??!?!?
My husband was just flipping thru the channels and I heard it. Is this right?!
Duckie

[AlCzervik]

1. i thought it was 14%?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. NBC/Wall Street Urinal poll says so.

[benfranklin1776]

5. "Wall Street Urinal"

:rofl: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Good one! But at least a urinal serves a useful societal function......

[MadMaddie]

3. Yup...You heard it right..historical low...

[waiting for hope]

4. 16% - It's 16%.....

They were saying on Dead Intern Joe's show that Reagan had 70% when the Dems took over in 86......I smell fear and Napalm....

[Nite Owl]

10. That's what I heard too

and in '94 when the gop took over Clinton was at 48% and now * is at 38%.

[benny05]

12. I heard 16 and chimpy at 36% (dependin' on the poll)

:weekly:

[Monkeyman]

6. Yep could be good news

[liberalmuse]

7. It is true, but should be much lower...Drain the Fucking Swamp!

I just finished reading the new Rolling Stone cover story. If you want your head to explode, only the first 2 out of the 8 pages of this article will get you there:

There is very little that sums up the record of the U.S. Congress in the Bush years better than a half-mad boy-addict put in charge of a federal commission on child exploitation. After all, if a hairy-necked, raincoat-clad freak like Rep. Mark Foley can get himself named co-chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, one can only wonder: What the hell else is going on in the corridors of Capitol Hill these days?

These past six years were more than just the most shameful, corrupt and incompetent period in the history of the American legislative branch. These were the years when the U.S. parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula -- a stable of thieves and perverts who committed crimes rolling out of bed in the morning and did their very best to turn the mighty American empire into a debt-laden, despotic backwater, a Burkina Faso with cable.

To be sure, Congress has always been a kind of muddy ideological cemetery, a place where good ideas go to die in a maelstrom of bureaucratic hedging and rank favor-trading. Its whole history is one long love letter to sleaze, idiocy and pigheaded, glacial conservatism. That Congress exists mainly to misspend our money and snore its way through even the direst political crises is something we Americans understand instinctively. "There is no native criminal class except Congress," Mark Twain said -- a joke that still provokes a laugh of recognition a hundred years later...

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12055360/cover_story_time_to_go_inside_the_worst_congress_ever/1

[nam78_two]

8. I wouldn't like to meet anyone of those 19/16/14% /nt

[waiting for hope]

9. Go to my parents house....

they are drinking Kool-Aid and watching Fox as I speak (type). I love them dearly but I learned a hard lesson of not talking politics with them. I do, however, slip in a few sly comments when they are not paying attention. And I also change the TV stations to MSNBC so when it gets turned on, it doesn't turn on to Fox. I'm can't help it, thank God I'm over 40 and can't grounded. :evilgrin:

[nam78_two]

13. You must find the holidays very rough ;-) /nt

[nevergiveup]

11. The 14% includes

congressmen/women, their families, business associates, Mistresses, lobbyists, staff, and other personal people connections too numerous and obscene to mention.