7/30/2007
who is the 14%?
Remember recently I posted about Congress’s extremely low approval rating numbers among Americans?
Well here are the gallup poll results.

Confidence numbers in Congress hit an all-time low of 14% in June. I doubt if they’ve climbed one scintilla since.
PRINCETON, NJ — The percentage of Americans with a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in Congress is at 14%, the lowest in Gallup’s history of this measure — and the lowest of any of the 16 institutions tested in this year’s Confidence in Institutions survey. It is also one of the lowest confidence ratings for any institution tested over the last three decades.
Even though less than 1% of members of Congress have a child in the military, they should be able to see by looking around that the rest of the country does not display the same demographics.
If Congressional members had any smarts, they would leverage this rather than work against it. This is the reason why the nutroots are so desperate and why they’re trying so hard to malign the reputations of our soldiers: the American people STILL have more faith in the military than any other institution in this list, including the churches.
It also speaks volumes about what kind of job the people across the country think about the elitist democrats and the job they’re doing since they ‘took over’. They ‘took over’, all right. They started running things as though the president doesn’t even exist. With all their caterwauling over the Constitution, most of them are behaving as though they haven’t even read it. Pelosi violated the Logan Act and went to Syria wearing a headscarf and lied. Harry Reid stood in front of the nation and declared “this war is lost” while all the democrats refused to meet with a contingent of real veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan-VETS FOR FREEDOM-who went to Washington in plain clothes to talk with the elected representatives about how the surge is working.
The democrats TURNED THEM AWAY, and refused to even MEET with them.
Congressional democrats are only willing to look toward their experts and aren’t even willing to listen to what the military has to say about what’s going on in Iraq or Afghanistan. I saw one example of a guy that got back from Afghanistan, and his representative told him thanks for his service in Iraq. It’s obvious to our guys who are serving that Congress simply doesn’t CARE.
They don’t listen, and that’s a big problem.
Harry Reid is posed a question: What about the Iraqis when we leave? And he doesn’t answer it. He says in response, the same thing that Cindy Sheehan says in response: The Iraqis don’t want us there.
Well when you read over at Iraq the Model and listen to what the Iraqis are saying, that isn’t the truth.
But why should we expect them to tell the truth? ALL THEY DO IS LIE.
They lie about 9/11 being an inside job, they lie like Scott Thomas Beauchamp did about the character of our young soldiers, and it’s all for the ultimate effect of tearing down what it is we’re attempting to accomplish in Afghanistan and Iraq. And there are so many people who are working INSIDE THE SYSTEM to accomplish this, it’s disgusting.
Unfortunately there is no other United States of America to go to. We are IT. So if people want for their children what they had or better, we’d better stop this leftward trend.
Once America goes down the socialist tubes with open borders and free health care for mexican illegals, and our standard of living has plummeted so we have people standing in bread lines and areas with no electricity - like it was under Saddam Hussein…I wonder if Cindy Sheehan will be around to notice the hand she played was wrong.

Congress and the Supreme Court still come in below the President. Even today. That’s why the leftists are so hysterical now, their campaigns on all these fronts don’t seem to be getting enough traction! I don’t see how you can blame the republicans for this…it looks to me as though the majority of Americans don’t want to go along with socialism. It looks to me as though the partisan mudslinging they’ve been engaged in has backfired. They should wake up and smell the coffee: while we’re a nation at war, delaying important decisions like funding for our troops, is not a smart move to make. ESPECIALLY since the military is the institution Americans hold in the highest regard!
Since the nutroots have taken hold with their thought police campaign to get rid of Fox sponsors (that will teach ‘em!) -and hate crime laws (we don’t want no stinking Bible in public!-Judeo Christian values stand in the way of our takeover!), it appears as though no matter how you slice it, the rest of the country is not willing to go along with it. Americans today have more faith in our president than they do in Congress, even though all these numbers are low.
So what is Congress going to do NOW?
Will they pay attention to the handwriting on the wall?
Will the nutroots continue their campaign to protest the war? You bet they will. And we will be there on September 15th when General Petraeus gives his report on progress.
But Congress better put some big man pants on, grow some balls, and start listening to their constituents or they’re going to be thrown out. The democrats in Congress are just proving that the Republicans weren’t doing such a bad job after all.










