AP Poll: Congress approval up.

[madokie]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070410/ap_on_go_co/congress100_days;_ylt=A0WTcUg7fxtGWUcBMQ3MWM0F

WASHINGTON - Public approval for Congress is at its highest level in a year as Democrats mark 100 days in power and step up their confrontation with President Bush over his handling of the Iraq War, the issue that overshadows all others.

Yet for all their eagerness to challenge Bush, congressional Democrats so far have failed to attract significant support among independents, a group that helped propel them to power in last fall's elections and now appears more strongly opposed to the war than the general public.

The findings from an AP-Ipsos nationwide poll provide a snapshot of public sentiment in the days after the House and Senate triggered a series of veto threats from the president by passing separate bills that provide funds for the war, yet also call for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops.

Overall approval for Congress is 40 percent. The survey shows Bush's approval ratings remain in the mid-30 percent range, that a striking 39 percent strongly disapproves his handling of foreign policy and the war on terror, and that the public has scant hopes that the president and Congress can work together to solve the country's problems.

[bdamomma]

1. that approval remains to be seen, unless they cave in

to these corrupt Repubs, then they will see how the public approves of the Congress.

[bklyncowgirl]

2. If they wuss out on the timetable thing it will drop again.nt

[bdamomma]

4. they got to keep that timetable in, that is what * is going crazy with

or crazier? They have to listen to us, we are not to be ignored.

[madokie]

6. exactly, if they don't back down now or in the near future the little tyrant will have a meltdown

in front of God and everybody, for all to see.

what a visual I must say.

[bdamomma]

7. I think Reid and Feingold have a resolution up to? and a few

people signed on it. Reid is another one we have to keep our eyes on, he seems to back down too. Whatever these guys do, they cannot let that deadline go.

[annabanana]

3. So. . . independents like Congress, but not the

Democrats running it?? That second paragraph doesn't seem to make a hell of a lot of sense. The independents who elected the Dems

HEY! The independents are the "loony left"! "more strongly opposed to the war than the general public."

day-yum

[gratuitous]

5. Gee, are all the outraged pundits . . . wrong?

I thought all this opposition to the unpopular Bush administration and its even more unpopular war was hurting the Democrats and their standing in the eyes of the public? Or at least in the eyes of the kewl kidz who have pegged their careers to prone craven subservience to Bush and his crooked cabal.

[valerief]

8. The Propatainment spinners will credit the leftover republics in Congress. nt