Its down becasue they where elected to offer alternative ideas to win in Iraq. Not surrender with catchy wordage.

Its down because of the show hearings, withchunts, and fishing expeditions for scandals most Amrican don't care about and see nothing but political
games gotchya games in.

Its down because of the general snitty attitude many Democrats display...especially the leadership.

The most recent issue that caused it to go down..IMMIGRATION. They tried to pass a bill 80% of Americans think is crap for one reason or another.


This asinine claim by the Far Left/Anti-War crowd that its because they didn't SURRENDER is laughable crap..I especially enjoy the BS apotrpoxy pulled they are placating Bush.



Overall its down because they have been trying to placate the Far Left/Anti-War crowd who most Americans do not agree with...simple as that.
Many people predicted they would do that and that this would be the reusult .....and the are being proven correct.

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Parsing approval ratings of "Congress" is always complicated by a number of factors. First, about 1/3 to 1/2 of the public is predisposed to give "Congress" low ratings simply because they don't like what Congress does: debate and argue. Congress traditionally gets its highest approval ratings when it is under the firm control of one party and (usually) when the same party controls the Presidency. That arrangement is highly "efficient." It is not, however, how Congress was designed to work.

Despite the numerous institutional roadblocks, many, if not most, Americans seem to believe that the US is a parliamentary system in which voters' preferences are more or less immediately transformed into public policy. (Relatively few Americans apparently retained much information from the Sesame Street song about "How a Bill Becomes a Law.") When this doesn't happen, approval of Congress drops.

Second, Americans are traditionally suspicious about the motives of "politicians," a class of people they see as exemplified by "Congress," though often not by their own Representative or Senators. Now and then, when scandals seem to encompass the actions of mulitiple members of Congress, e.g. Abscam, the House Post Office scandal, Abramoff, Foley, etc., a tidal wave hits Congress and swamps the usual advantage of incumbency. That usually occurs, however, only when the scandals have a definite partisan color. (See 2006.)

The current environment is tailor-made for driving Congressional approval ratings down. High (far too high) expectations about what could be accomplished by thin majorities (especially in the Senate) combined with a President in his second term with extremely low approval ratings and no incentive to cooperate with a Congress controlled by the other party.

Add to that the public's largely unrealistic expectations that Congress and the President will cooperate in passing legislation without even the furor and disappointment that accompanies compromise and the public mood quickly turns sour.

That doesn't mean, however, that significant blocs of voters cannot make finer distinctions come election time. The chances that Republicans will recapture either the House or Senate in 2008 are virtually nil. Voters' memories are short, but they're not that short. Democrats will argue persuasively in 2008 that with larger majorities in each chamber, they can accomplish more. Republicans will be stuck arguing that gridlock is good. Combine that with the fact that 21 Republican seats (compared to 12 Democratic) seats in the Senate are up in 2008, and the chances that Republicans can recapture the Congress are about as good as the Cubs winning the World Series.

Republican hopes that relatively low approval ratings for Pelosi and Reid will somehow benefit their candidates throughout the nation are pipe dreams, as every Republican running in 2008 realizes.

Bottom line. By the fall of 2007 Democrats will have a filibuster-proof (though not veto-proof) majority in the Senate for Iraq policy, made up in part of Repubican senators running for re-election in 2008. That may not be enough to change Iraq policy, but it will be enough to isolate the President. If an immigration bill passes, it will benefit Democrats and hurt Republicans (among their base). If it doesn't pass, it will benefit Democrats and hurt Republicans (among independents).

Democrats will continue to turn over rocks in investigations. Republicans will complain that Congress is spending too much time in investigations and not enough time getting things done. The public will agree, just as the public agrees that campaigns shouldn't engage in "negative advertising." Nevertheless, the investigations (like negative advertising) will be cumulatively effective in keeping the corruption and incompetence of the Bush administration alive as a background to 2008.

On the internet (and Faux Noise) Wingnuts will try to blame Pelosi, Reid, and Democrats for anything they can find (or make up.) They will continue to be frustrated that the message is having little effect and the MSM will be blamed. A significant portion of the electorate will continue to have a difficult time remembering who Pelosi and Reid are. They won't have difficulty remembering that Iraq is Bush's war and the Republicans continued to support it long after most Americans wanted to pull out.

When Democrats pick up seats in both the House and Senate in 2008 along iwth the Presidency, Republicans will argue about whether their defeat is the result of "not being conservative enough."

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LOL, who would elected if the congress gets turned out? Don't think some right-wing wackos will take their places.

They gave you the funding for the continuation of the Iraqi occupation. maybe the US people aren't too happy about that.

I'm not so sure about that. There is supposed to be an update on the "surge" progress in the fall. I suspect that they are going to report positive results, which of course will have nothing to do with actual results. Bush might use this as political momentum for his party and thus there might be fewer Republican Senators willing to steer away from him.

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