Congressional approval: 3%???
- Friday, August 03 2007 @ 02:12 PM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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Yep, that's what Zogby says their poll shows:
Democrats on the street hate Congress because they (Congress) haven't had the guts to actually de-fund the war and force a defeat. Rank and file Republicans hate Congress because the leadership keeps acting (and, when their guard is down, coming out and saying) that progress in Iraq is bad for their partisan politics. (Independents are, as always, somewhere between those two poles.)
That's jaw-dropping stuff, there. Here's the oath of office that Mr. Clyburn took when he assumed the duties of U.S. Representative:
I'm hard-pressed to understand how placing the domestic policy and organizational issues of a political party over defending "the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" conforms with the letter and the spirit of the Congressman's oath of office.
Just 24% give the president favorable ratings of his performance in handling the war in Iraq, but confidence in Congress is significantly worse – only 3% give Congress positive marks for how it has handled the war.
Democrats on the street hate Congress because they (Congress) haven't had the guts to actually de-fund the war and force a defeat. Rank and file Republicans hate Congress because the leadership keeps acting (and, when their guard is down, coming out and saying) that progress in Iraq is bad for their partisan politics. (Independents are, as always, somewhere between those two poles.)
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Monday that a strongly positive report on progress on Iraq by Army Gen. David Petraeus likely would split Democrats in the House and impede his party's efforts to press for a timetable to end the war.
That's jaw-dropping stuff, there. Here's the oath of office that Mr. Clyburn took when he assumed the duties of U.S. Representative:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.
I'm hard-pressed to understand how placing the domestic policy and organizational issues of a political party over defending "the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" conforms with the letter and the spirit of the Congressman's oath of office.