President Obama is making a good move in returning to his attack on a “do nothing Congress,” because new polling shows that voters aren’t just fed up with Capitol Hill, they now think House and Senate members are corrupt.
A Rasmussen Reports poll out Tuesday found that just 1 percent of likely voters believe Congress is doing an “excellent” job. And just 6 percent say that Capitol Hill’s performance is “good.” Some 89 percent rate Congress as fair to poor.
And if that doesn’t provide a ripe enough target for Obama, Rasmussen found that for the first time since the president’s election in 2008, more voters believe Congress is corrupt than those who don’t. Rasmussen reported that 38 percent say Congress is corrupt while 33 percent don’t; 29 percent didn’t know.
Even worse: Just 11 percent of likely voters said that Congress has passed “anything to improve” their life. A whopping 64 percent said Congress hasn’t helped them.
Obama had recently trimmed his attacks on Congress, instead shifting to whacking the GOP’s efforts in the House such as pushing Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget. His is a more nuanced criticism, calling on the GOP to get out of the way of good policy such as jobs initiatives. That’s not a bad line of attack either, since Rasmussen found that 51 percent of likely voters believe that passing good legislation is the top role for Congress.
