Okay, so who are these 13%?
A new Gallup poll shows the public’s approval of Congress at a historic low of 13%.
Meanwhile, the lame-duckiest Congress bravely soldiers on, doing the people’s business. Or something.
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It is really a mockery of our entire country and constitution when 13% approve of a congress that refuses to represent the people who voted for them. They all need to go – house and Senate adios. Everyday they are making life in America a living hell – and yet some have been there for decades. Wake up America!
Of course, 14% believe in Santa Claus, so there’s your calibration on gullibility.
These 13% are those who have been saved from their own inevitable early demise by the nanny government putting warning labels on all matter of items warning against the obvious.
Darwinian selection has been toyed with, the natural culling of the stupid has been thwarted, the margin of victory for one Barack Obama presidency has been provided for, and Congress gets a 13% approval rating.
Remove all warning labels!
Okay, so who are these 13%?
IMHO people who owe their lifestyles or jobs to unnecessary federal expenditures could easily be 13% of the population.
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Could we call them porkivores?
When I was in the Navy we used to joke that there was always that 10% that didn’t get the word. Obviously in this case that would be 10% with a margin of error of +/- 3%.
They’re the commenters at DemocratUndiesHuffPuffPostDailyKurseMoveonLGF.com. But you knew that, right?
Good one, expat. Or porkisites.
Porkiphiles?
You can pretty much reach that 13% if you count only Americans ten years old or younger.
When you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can count on the support of Paul.
Who are the 13 percent? Some of them are those who fall into a common trap: the one that whispers, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Congress has been Democrat for the past several years (too lazy to count), so for many of those who detest conservatism and/or Republicanism (whatever that is), Congress is their friend.
And many of us here wish to avoid falling into the ideological mirror image of that trap — that anyone who detests liberalism (or, at any rate, what liberalism has morphed into since, say, JFK) must be okay with me. Lousy reasoning! — although the trap is much more emotional than reason – based.
The 13% remind me of the old baseball joke dialogue:
Weak player: “Who do I bat after?”
“Everybody else.”
“Who bats after me?”
“The other team.”
It really hits home that there are precious few people in America who can keep their jobs without even pretending to do their jobs. Tenured professors, unionized civil servants and teachers, and Senators/Representatives, lead the list.
They insult us time after time; and for the most part get away with it. So here we are in another election year budget cycle, confronted with a self-generated crisis to meet a manufactured deadline. Oh, ho hum. Business as usual. The insult is that they actually believe they can fool us with all of this melodrama. The sad reality is that, whether fooled or not, there is no pay-back for this behavior.
I expect the 13% are just the completely unconscious zombies who share our world. That number suggests that there are fewer of them than I would have guessed.
“”That number suggests that there are fewer of them than I would have guessed.””
Oldflyer
Well you have to consider the percentage who disapprove of congress because they haven’t been radical enough. And 2008 proved that 53% can be convinced that sunshine and lolipops flying out of politician’s butts is not out of the question for them.