I tell you, it couldn't have happened to a nicer legislative body:
Amid a prolonged search for a new House speaker that paralyzed the House of Representatives for three weeks while two U.S. allies are engaged in wars, Americans' approval of Congress' job performance fell from 17% to 13%. This is the lowest approval rating of Congress since October and November 2017, when it was also 13%, and is just four percentage points above the all-time low from November 2013.
Only the great scholar and celebrated economist J. Drew Bieber can adequately convey that kind of plunge:
The best part, as Gallup notes, is that "Democrats [are] responsible for [the] decline in congressional job approval." That is to say, Democratic poll respondents are increasingly viewing the government with extreme negativity.
You can't blame them. Even they can't miss what's going on. We're enduring one of the most financially distressing and societally difficult periods in recent American history. Everything is expensive; nothing is available; goods are scarce, services are in the tank; Congress is full of bickering, squabbling adolescents who have no idea what they're doing and no idea of how to do it.
This is one thing that both the GOP and Democrats can agree on. Finally we can have unity on how horrible our politicians are!
Of course, leave it to America's third party to be all high and mighty about it:
Currently, 19% of independents approve of the job Congress is doing, which is unchanged from last month and similar to where it has been throughout 2023.
Independents priding themselves like:
Someone wake me when those guys figure out what's up.
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