posted on July 20, 2007 11:15:20 AM new
"Blame everyone but us
Democrats Blame Republicans and Bush for Low Approval
By Nathan Burchfiel
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
July 20, 2007
Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday blamed the Republican minority for sinking congressional approval ratings, calling recent poll results "a referendum on Republican obstructionism." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) blamed President Bush.
Schumer told reporters that Republicans - who earlier this week blocked a Democratic amendment that would have mandated a troop withdrawal from Iraq, and who in June blocked a comprehensive immigration reform bill - are frustrating Americans who are hungry for change.
A Zogby telephone poll released Thursday showed approval of Congress "continues to plummet" and now sits at just 14 percent. Eighty-three percent of respondents gave Congress negative marks. The polling organization credited the low numbers to the "acrimonious scrimmage over immigration reform" in June.
"The American people are demanding change," Schumer said. "The one thing standing in the way is the Republicans in the Senate."
Reid echoed Schumer's frustration with Republicans but was also quick to blame Bush.
"When you have a president who is so unpopular ... it really reflects poorly on Congress," Reid said. "None of them [congressional approval ratings] are real high and we acknowledge that, but most of it relates to the unpopularity of the president."
Bush's job approval ratings in Zogby polls have been in the low and mid-30s since October 2006. This week it stood at 34 percent.
Reid's contention, however, jarred with the view of the polling company, which described Bush's job approval rating as having "stabilized" while saying that "opinion of the work Congress is doing continues to plummet."
The current congressional rating is eight points lower today than it was for the Republican-controlled Congress just one week before Republicans lost control of both houses of Congress in the November 2006 elections.
Schumer said that while overall congressional approval ratings are low, he believes Republicans are worse off than Democrats in public opinion. "They're not spreading the blame equally," he said of the American people.
Some recent polls do seem to back up Schumer's claim, with Democratic approval ratings of 31 percent leading Republican approval ratings of 21 percent in a July 9 Harris poll. A June 27 Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll found a tighter margin with 36 percent approval for Democrats and 30 percent approval for Republicans.
Republican leaders blamed Democrats who control Congress for the low approval. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Americans "are still wondering whether the Democrats are going to deliver on their promises."
"The polls show the American people are fed up with Congress and frankly they should be," Boehner said. "I think our families want solutions to their issues, not just more partisanship."
Boehner said Republicans "want to work with Democrats to address the solutions that the American people sent us here to deal with."
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George S. Patton
[ edited by Bear1949 on Jul 20, 2007 11:17 AM ]
posted on July 20, 2007 01:18:34 PM new
Well....who EVER would expect any liberal to take responsibility for their own actions???? It's just simply something that will NEVER, EVER happen. lol
They can't. They see themselves as 'the answer'. lol And what a joke that has been over these past 7 months. They had gotten so used to blaming the President for everything, and they still are, that they haven't had time to develop any plans of their own.
Someone posted a list of questions that all the liberal candidates should be asked to answer....because they NEVER address those topics. They avoid them like the plague.
They continue to run on a 'no solution' - just bashing the President - platform. Just more whining about what they don't like and they're going to change - SUPPOSEDLY. But I believe there aren't enough foolish voters who can't see that the dem party has NO answers/solutions.
And their ratings are from their OWN lack of leadership....but they have to blame someone...and the President has always been their first choice. Thus the term they earned 'the angry left'. Their leaders impotent to do much of any value....except continue promising to change things. Sadly they haven't done so.
They're such a sad group of supposed leaders....they can't focus on solutions....because they can't LEAD...they're only WHINERS/WIMPS/and cowards.
Heck they haven't even had the guts to stop the war they promised their supporters they would do IF elected.
Now they're again running on an 'IF you elect me I'll....[do this and that].' They fooled the voters once....but hopefully now as their polls are showing....they won't fool them again with their false promises' and lack of any action.
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"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
