Congress rarely has an approval rating that rises out of the mid-thirties. Even back during the days of President Obama and his popularity, Congressional Democrats leading the legislative branch managed 35 percent approval on average.
Back in March of last year, Congress once again reached the peak of the mid-thirties, but that number has since been cut in half, mainly thanks to Democrats abandoning their own leadership in the wake of numerous legislative failures. Independents are also jumping ship in droves as the Democratic Party lurches leftward on every major issue.
In the most recent Gallup polling on the subject, Congress now sits at a whopping 18 percent approval, with a declining fraction of Democrats nodding along:
Americans’ approval rating of the job Congress is doing has fallen to 18%, the lowest point in more than a year, as congressional Democrats’ efforts to pass spending and voting rights bills have stalled. The latest five-percentage-point decline in congressional approval is largely attributed to a 10-point decline among Democrats whose frustration appears to be mounting with their party’s senators and representatives who hold majorities in both houses of Congress.
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Democrats’ approval of Congress fell as infighting among Democratic legislators held up passage of Biden’s climate change and social spending bill. With Biden’s legislative agenda still stalled, Democrats’ latest 26% approval of the legislative branch is the lowest it has been in a year.
No one is shocked that Americans, by and large, usually disapprove of the job Congress is doing, that’s been the norm for a few decades, probably longer. The partisan fighting, the lies, the trillion-dollar legislative packages laden with pork, the entire chamber is a cesspool.
Ironically, Republican approval of Congress ticked up slightly since October, likely because much of Biden’s agenda was defeated:
It’s such a corrupt body, Democratic leaders can’t even sign on to ban members of Congress from trading stocks while in office, a move that receives bipartisan support and the support of the American people.
The bottom line is that the House Democratic leadership has been very inept at passing any of Biden’s domestic agenda. Despite months and months of wrangling, nothing happened on Build Back Better or the sham voting rights legislation. Even after threats, and cajoling from the White House, Democrats were defeated by their own party members this week.
Gallup wraps up their analysis with this humorous and entirely unlikely scenario that Democrats could save themselves by actually accomplishing something before November:
With the midterm elections less than 10 months away, pressure is mounting on Democratic legislators to deliver for their constituents. Democrats may be vulnerable as approval of the Democratically controlled 117th Congress is at its lowest point, and recent legislative failures, including the inability to pass social spending, climate change and voting rights bills have frustrated their party’s base.
That ship has sailed and it’s not coming back. The voting rights nonsense bill is dead along with any other social spending priority of the left like climate change or expanded entitlement programs.
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, with Biden’s blessing, haven’t given independent or moderate Democrats anything to vote for in November. Rather than focusing on inflation or other major issues people care about, they’re stuck on stupid trying to pass things favored by Democratic Party kooks.
Good luck on this 10-month run to turn things around.
