Approval of the Moore and Boyda Congress Hits All-Time Low..Again..
Yesterday, Rasmussen Reports released their most recent Congressional approval ratings. Shockingly enough, the public approval of Congress bottomed out at 9 percent. That's right…a mere 9 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing.
Even more telling - just 12 percent of Americans believe that legislation has been passed during the past six-month time frame that has improved their lives. 12 percent!
Perhaps the frustration may have something to do with the fact that while gas prices have continued to sky-rocket and the economy stalls, all Congress can seem to do is pass budgets with record spending and send out fundraising e-mails on behalf of lobbying colleagues.
Incumbents all over the country better take notice – the American public will no longer accept the utter lack of results they've been getting.
That means you Nancy Boyda and Dennis Moore – your lock-step votes with Nancy Pelosi's out-of-touch agenda has gained you favor with the slimmest majority of Americans (9% to be exact).
When you make statements like the above, don't you risk this sort of rebuttal, for instance?
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Approval of the Roberts, Brownback, Moore and Tiahart Congress Hits All-Time Low..Again..
Yesterday, Rasmussen Reports released their most recent Congressional approval ratings. Shockingly enough, the public approval of Congress bottomed out at 9 percent. That's right…a mere 9 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing.
Even more telling - just 12 percent of Americans believe that legislation has been passed during the past six-month time frame that has improved their lives. 12 percent!
Perhaps the frustration may have something to do with the fact that while gas prices have continued to sky-rocket and the economy stalls, all Congress can seem to do is pass budgets with record spending and send out fundraising e-mails on behalf of lobbying colleagues.
Incumbents all over the country better take notice – the American public will no longer accept the utter lack of results they've been getting.
That means you Pat Roberts, Sam Brownback, Jerry Moran and Todd Tiahrt – your lock-step votes with George Bush's out-of-touch agenda has gained you favor with the slimmest majority of Americans (9% to be exact).
Since George Bush invaded Iraq, gas prices* have risen from a national average of $1.27 a gallon to $4.11, an amazing 224% and the economy has taken a turn for the worse. While the politicians in Washington make excuses, the folks out here in America are mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore...
* http://zfacts.com/p/35.html
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Agreed. Roberts, Brownback, Moran and Tiahrt should all go.
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I love Frank, I forgot the rise in global gas demand and in turn price is because of the war in Iraq. And again you make a clear point that the 9% approval rate is because of the minority Republicans. Who knew?
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Who knew? Apparently not "MHaig."
Iraq's production, even under Saddam's mismanagement, sanctions, wars with Iran and Kuwait, was still about 2.6-3 million bpd before Bush's invasion. It is now under 2 million bpd and much of that is stolen. The only Republican Senator to vote against the invasion was Chaffee, joined by 28 Democrats, the rest of whom punked out because they knew they'd be portrayed as "unpatriotic" in their relection campaign. (The only "No" voter up for re-election in 2004 was Wellstone.)
Iraqi oil is the easiest and cheapest in the world to extract, and is about the sweetest crude available. (Lower refining costs.)
The neocons said that the war would "pay for itself." It's cost us about $700 billion so far and has resulted in the devaluation of the dollar. When the dollar's value goes down, it costs more to import crude. (We import a negligible amount of finished gasoline, which also costs more.)
The price of benchmark Texas crude was about $28 when Bush invaded. It has gone to about $140, or a 400% increase.
But "MHaig" knows what he knows.
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Sorry about that. Typo. The election was the 2002 election, not 2004.
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My gas prices started raising before the Dems became the majority. Did yours? Interesting.
Lets see. Law must pass both chambers and be signed by the president. That's right, all the majority's fault.
Read something you dumb ass republicans.
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And the gas prices kept rising under the Democratic majority .... and their plan to address this is?
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The Democrats do have an answer for rising energy and fuel costs - it's the ride a bike plan.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ip8nozp7vs8
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I'm not sure it's in "R" interest to do there.
It's kind of like a hypothetical situation where one party is in charge of assuring safety at the cliff's edge in a part. But the guard rails aren't repaired.
A kid falls off.
The excuse given is that the keys were turned over to the next operating party when the kid was halfway down. So how could anything be blamed on the first?
If I were to have a recurring nightmare, it would be that I was elected president, halfway down the cliff.
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I'm rushing out the door for an out-of-state legislative conference. Sorry about those typos: "...go there," and "in a park."
Be good, boys and girls.
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The Democrats said they had a plan, but as the price has taken off exponentially all they do is whine that Saudi Arabia should drill more. Stupid? Unbelievably. We know Boyda and Moore are dead set against more domestic production. Don't expect Slattery's little coterie of reporters to ever mention it.
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Here's a great strategy: If you have very little reserves, and have it in difficult to exploit places, in terms of environmental risk and cost, why not use it all up now so we won't have any at all in 20 years and will then be completely at the mercy of foreign providers at a much higher price than today?
Oil production in Iraq, since our invasion, has dropped from 2.6 - 3 million barrels a month, to 2 million barrels. You've heard of SUPPLY and demand, of course. We've borrowed $700 to engage in this war, putting the $ valuation straight into the toilet.
Iraqi oil is the easiest in the world to produce, and is the sweetest grade, but they've dropped ~30% in production.
Used to be you could go to Canada and get about a buck and a quarter for a greenback. Now it's reversed. The Euro is worth half again as much against the $ as it was a couple of years ago.
The oil industry has huge reserves west of Prudhoe Bay, west of the Alpine field, but they've whined about getting ANWR opened for two decades, at the same time they aren't drilling on their leases.
You're not going to get that degree in rocket science, "Just Sayin," if you keep on believing in the nonsense you're fed.
I'm at a legislative conference with elected members from 16 states, none from Kansas, and people have mentioned what a bozo Melvin Neufeld is. It's like having to explain, a couple of years ago, that not everyone from Kansas thinks the world is only 4,000 years old.
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So, what's the Democrat's plan? Turn turbines on collective sighs?
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Mr "Just Sayin",
Certainly you know that we got 100% of the best efforts to drill for oil we would be adding less than 5%. For what that is worth you get better results be not picking that "Hemi" option in your Jeep. Do you really think the oil companies are going to drop prices because there is 5% more oil available ?
Not going to happen. They will just make more money.
Hey, did you read about those no bid contracts for oil production on Iraq ?
Wonder how well that is going to help at our pumps ... don't you ?
Sure it is going to help FOBs ( friends of Bush )
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Links confirming Sebelius attendance at Bilderberg.
http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/13004
http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/12476
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Does it strike you all as peculiar that:
1) San Fran Nan gushed and PROMISED things would get done in the first 100 days because the DEMOCANTS took back control of the House? How convenient of their lackeys and supporters to forget that comment. In that time, all they've done is continue to play the Bash Bush game that's been going on since 2001 (see the recent Pelosi comment on CNN where she called the President an "abject failure"?). Since handing over the House to them, we've seen $4.00 a gallon gas, and other consumer essentials skyrocket on their watch. And they want us to reward their lame duck, lame brained performances with re-election? I don't think so.
2)Senator Hope'nChange and his party have been throwing these words around like water but don't actually spell out their plan. It's wait 'till 2009 to find out what the change is. That's when we'll really get s******.
3) For such a positive sounding tandem, the "hope 'n change," mantra the Democants have adopted for their campaign slogan, they don't offer ANY solutions. We CAN'T use OUR national resources because it will endanger another stupid owl or cause more "global warming." And ALL OF THEM PARROT THE SAME TIRED LINE, "WE CAN'T DRILL OUR WAY OUT of our current energy problem." Mexico, China and Cuba can drill off of our shores. Isn't there something WRONG with this picture?
America is for sale to the highest bidder in this election, and the DEMOCANTS, who believe in stifling Yankee ingenuity rather than using it will sell the country to George Soros, their master puppeteer and our potential slave master.
As for the Guv'nah, she IS an opportunist. We need to be wary of her. She's not a Kansasan, never has been and never shared our interests to begin with. Like MO Senator Claire McCaskill, they have the distinction to pop on to the scene whenever they think they can insinuate themselves for personal gain.
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Pam has attempted to make SRK a "fact free" zone.
Any watcher of C-Span can say that Democratic attempts to pass desperately needed legislation is subject to perennial dilatory motions such as endless and otherwise purposeless quorum calls.
Worse still is the number of filibusters, threats of cloture or cloture votes. The 110th Congress is certain to double the number of historic cloture votes.
Leadership has enforced a new "tyranny of the minority," when it blocks otherwise bipartisan legislation by enforcing party discipline.
There simply aren't enough Hagels or Chaffees, etc., to get sensible legislation past enforced cloture.
I can't understand how anyone, "R", "D" or "I" would not be chagrined when efforts have been blocked to reduce some of the most destructive pork from prior congresses. Obviously included would be the recently blocked reform of Medicare "Advantage," and allowing negotiations for Part D Medicare Rx prices (which has been the biggest boondoggle this side of wars and bank bailouts).
Despite these efforts, which may become the (unfortunate for Republicans) subject of campaigns, Democrats have obviously had some successes, such as passing (at last) higher CAFE standards. Under Republican domination fuel guzzlers were actually subsidized and encouraged. Some vehicles were built to take advantage, for instance, of the 6,000# $100,000 one year tax write-off, and weighed exactly 6,000# or near that (i.e., 6001#). A great many were imports: Rover, Mercedes, Lexus, Nissan Pathfinder.
Quite simply, this legislation enabled the U.S. auto industry to commit suicide by building Escalades, Suburbans, Hummers, etc. At the same time, it blocked health care reform that would have helped GM, Ford and Chrysler reduce their pension costs.
So did the Democrats manage to pass anything, despite that obstructionism? Of course. Here's a very short list:
Passed legislation to increase the federal minimum wage (of course in KS, our minimum, thanks to Charles and David Koch, is still $2.65/hr.)
Passed an emergency spending bill that included $6 billion for
hurricane relief
Passed a bill to upgrade military health care and provide a 3.5
percent pay raise for our troops
Passed an Iraq supplemental appropriations bill that included an
additional $1.8 billion for veterans' health care
Passed a bill to implement the 9/11 Commission recommendations
Passed an ethics and lobbying reform bill
Passed a bill to cut subsidies to student lenders and provide $17
billion in grants and other student aid
Passed a bill to better regulate the student loan industry
An exhaustive list would put the most dedicated wonk to sleep, so I'll end there.
Again, my point. If the Republican party wants to argue Democratic
"ineffectiveness," it should tread very lightly in those instances of the absence of facts.
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They passed a bill...They passed a bill...the point is that they have a super secret plan that will take gas prices back to $1.00/gallon but they won't even introduce it. Real effective.
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Have you got sources, "Kanzan?"
If so, please quote.
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Frank thinks I'm making this a "fact free zone." Hmmm...
Sure Frank, things have been "passed" (like flatulence), but I'm talking about issues that are of substance that need bi-partisan support and attention RIGHT NOW. (I guess you like paying $4.00+ at the pump for gas, so that issue isn't really that important, huh.)
Why haven't we seen passage for drilling for oil in ANWAR? Oh, I forgot, the caribou won't like it.(The only thing we get out of Pelosi and company is, for the oil companies to drill it must be done WHERE the government SAYS they CAN drill. Mighty magnamous of 'em.)
"We can't" is all we ever read and hear out of them. That should be their slogan instead of "hope 'n change." Dennis the Menace uses this "we can't" stuff in every form letter he sends out to his constituents who dare write him about the subject. He's so taken with the "new sources of energy" that he's willing to wait until biofuels have come on line to solve the problem. Well, this idiot plan takes time too,(unless he want's to use sugar cane as a fuel, and Brazil is willing to sell to the U.S. right now), so his argument that it will take time to get the oil isn't much of an argument. It's great to think of the future, but it does nothing for the present.
His "solution" to the oil crisis is to take public transportation. That's great if your job happens to keep the same hours as the Metro or the JO. Public transportation isn't a "one size fits all" fix.
I noticed you skirted the FACT that foreign countries can drill off our shores but we can't. Why is it okay for these countries to drill off our shores?
Bloviate all you want pixie, but this FACT remains: the country is in a mess no thanks to the kindergarten mentality of the House and Senate leadership. It's gotten us to where we are today. When Democants don't get their way, they whine, finger point and make character assassinations. I guess they have to do something to make themselves feel good.
If filibustering disturbs you,then maybe these legislators that you blindly defend as hard workers ought to put out SENSIBLE legislation instead of wasting time trying to find creative ways to stifle free speech (the "Fairness Doctrine"), and attempt to sneak into law (in the middle of the night) to allow illegal aliens into the country. Now that, pixie, ARE FACTS.
My grandmother always said, "Can't never did anything." Well, in this case, it's destroying a once great country.
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Is it true that Nancy Boyda only became a Democrat to run against Ryun? Is it true that Steve Boyda was married when he and Nancy met on-line, had an affair, etc?
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