When Democrats in Congress refused to vote for Republican bills during the Bush administration, they’d often cite the President’s poor approval rating numbers as demonstrating that the country didn’t want what Republicans were selling. Never mind that their own approval ratings were often lower, that reason was used as a bludgeon over and over.<\/p>\n
While Obama’s number have been tanking faster than any President in half a century, he’s not at Dubya-depths yet. (Though, stay tuned.) Congress, however, can only pine for those heady days of 20-something approval.<\/p>\n
\nVoter unhappiness with Congress has reached the highest level ever recorded by Rasmussen Reports as 71% now say the legislature is doing a poor job. <\/p>\n