Congress officially declared 'dumber' than years prior

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By MEGHAN KENEALLY
PUBLISHED: 23:17 EST, 17 June 2012 | UPDATED: 23:17 EST, 17 June 2012

A new study has quantified a problem that many political pundits have been complaining about by reporting that Congress has gotten collectively dumber over the past seven years.

By analyzing trends in speech patterns and public statements, educational group The Sunlight Foundation determined that members of Congress are speaking, on average, on the same level as a sophomore in high school.

The results show that the group has been downgraded since 2005 when they reached the levels of high school juniors.

Of the 530 politicians evaluated, members with the ten lowest scores were all Republicans.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160881/Congress-officially-declared-dumber-years-prior-politicians-speaking-constituents.html

This is what America gets for electing T-baggers....

[DearAbby]

1. This is disturbing.

I mean it really is. Shit.

[lpbk2713]

2. I didn't see Bachmann or Sessions mentioned by name in the article.

But when I think "dumb member of Congress" those two faces pop up in my mind's eye.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. There was a slight upward blip when Santorum left.

but the trend downward sped up after that.

[Motown_Johnny]

4. (D)s held The House for 40 years, it has been all downhill since then.

Ahh.. the good old days. When we got real budgets out of our Congress. Ones that made sense and where deficits were so small that expansion of the economy dealt with it easily.

It seems those days are lost to us all.

[freshwest]

6. Yep, it seemed like America was going somewhere then. We need to get back to that.

[AwareOne]

5. My representative, Sandy Adams R FL

Dropped out of high school at age 17. She joined the Air Force, got pregnant and dropped out of the Air Force also. She then some how got a job with the Sheriffs dept and worked her way up to detective, scary. She married another cop. She then became a state representative and finally a United States congresswomen. So, she worked for the federal govt. (air force), the county govt. (sheriffs Office) the state govt. (florida house) and now is back with the Feds (U.S. House) and guess what she is, an anti govt. Tea Party wack job. Can you believe the hypocrisy? A life long govt. employee who gets elected on an anti govt platform. We are living in Idiocracy!

[hughee99]

7. I'm not sure that this is the case...

Are the politicians dumber because they only know simpler words, or are they just trying to communicate better to dumber constituents? I'm sure if you evaluated a 2nd grade teachers language when working, they would rate as "pretty dumb" based on the language they use at work.

[JDPriestly]

8. I don't trust the list. My Congressman, Xavier Becerra is a graduate of Stanford Law School.

I have heard him speak many, many times, and he speaks clearly, succinctly, in language his constituents understand very well. Michelle Bachmann is listed at a higher rank than Becerra. That does not seem accurate to me. I've heard both of them speak often enough to know that Becerra is a much better speaker and uses better grammar and sentence construction thn Bachmann any day.

I don't know how they assessed the members of Congress, but I don't agree with their list.