It’s just not working out!
Ouchie! A new AP poll finds support for Congress at “a dismal 22 percent” — by which they mean Cheney numbers! Half of the people in the poll said they want to can their member of Congress. By contrast, the poll finds support for President Obama holding at a pretty steady and secure 53 percent.
AP political writer Liz Sidoti (honk!) augurs a “shellacking” for Democrats in November.
Presidents typically lose House and Senate seats in their first midterm elections. And the party in power usually bears the brunt of voters’ ire when the country is in turmoil.
Thus, another of the poll’s findings may not bode well for Obama and his Democrats: A clear majority of Americans — 56 percent — now say the country is headed in the wrong direction.
Democrat Benny Newman of Tulsa, Okla., laid the blame for the nation’s ills on both Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress.
“Just bundle them in the same bag,” said Newman, who at 79 just lost a job with a local public school district because of budget woes. “I don’t think either one of them is interested in the general public. … They’re always stalling, playing politics, trying to jockey for a better position for their own re-election.”
