Congressional approval rating lower than Bush's

[innerSpaceman]

Compromise may not positively efffect poll numbers ... but "one way or the other" is not something likely to happen in Congress. Even when Republicans or Democrats have had "control" of one house or the other, they have rarely had veto-proof or fillibuster-proof levels of control.

So the American people may poll one way ... but they vote another. They vote to keep compromise the only likely way of passing legislation. Even as one who'd like things one way rather than the other, I have to applaud the result of not letting either "side" run tyrannical over large swarths of the American population - - even that swarth that I disagree vehemently with.



The president is a different story. His administration does not have to compromise on matter of foreign policy. The Bush administration not only can, but HAS run tryannical - in both foreign policy and domestic security policy.

As we will see in the next presidential election, his nasty poll numbers will more match up with the way people vote than do the poll numbers for Congress.


So, um ... neener.