Disapproval Rate for Congress at Record 82% After Debt Talks

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By MICHAEL COOPER and MEGAN THEE-BRENAN
Published: August 4, 2011

The debate over raising the debt ceiling, which brought the nation to the brink of default, has sent disapproval of Congress to its highest level on record and left most Americans saying that creating jobs should now take priority over cutting spending, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.

A record 82 percent of Americans now disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job — the most since The Times first began asking the question in 1977, and even more than after another political stalemate led to a shutdown of the federal government in 1995.

More than four out of five people surveyed said that the recent debt-ceiling debate was more about gaining political advantage than about doing what is best for the country. Nearly three-quarters said that the debate had harmed the image of the United States in the world.

Republicans in Congress shoulder more of the blame for the difficulties in reaching a debt-ceiling agreement than President Obama and the Democrats, the poll found.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/us/politics/05poll.html?hp

And yet...most of these idiots will be re-elected. Many won't even have primary opponents.

[Turbineguy]

1. It's improved then.

I heard it was 86% last week.

[Stuart G]

2. k & r

[Kolesar]

3. Let's see the Obama-haters try to blame this on the President...eom

[RC]

8. He signs their anti-people bills into law.

Obama negotiates with them behind closed doors. Gives away pieces of the farm up front, then Congress put it in bills, which he signs. Assuming the Senate doesn't reject it first.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. They don't care. They're counting on our collective amnesia for 2012.

[Obamanaut]

5. You're right, most will be reelected. The general public votes, it part, for

'the name you know', and the incumbents know that.

Then too, there is this. Many people, and I've read it here too, say such things as "Well, MY senator/representative isn't one of them. She (or he) is one of the good ones."

The sad truth is, they are ALL like that.

[polichick]

6. If their corporate masters are happy, I'm sure Congress is okay with it.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. While Congress, the House in particular, has staggering rates

of re-election, it is also true that the trend has been downward slightly and that in 2010 it was the lowest percentage since 1970. Perhaps it really is a trend. We shall see.