Congress Keeps Up Their Winning Ways

One of the most most heartening stories of the last couple years was the fact that even when President Bush's approval ratings were at their lowest, Congress' approval ratings were always lower. And so the story goes today...

A recent Rasmussen poll found that 57 percent of likely voters would like to throw out all the bums and start over (only 1 in 4 would keep the current crop of cronies).

A similar number feel that Congress is overpaid and a similar number also feel that Congressional members try to help their friends and hurt their political opponents when meeting with regulators and other government officials.

75 percent of polled people feel that members of Congress are more interested in advancing their careers than really helping the public and most feel they understand the health care bill better than the people who will actually be voting on it.

Good to know that Nancy Pelosi has done such a bang-up job "cleaning up the House," as she promised to do.

My personal prediction is that 50 seats will change hands in next fall's elections, changing the current 256-179 Democrat advantage to a 229-206 Republican advantage. I was surprised to hear Dick Morris predict (Hannity's TV show, sometime last week) that he thought 100 seats could change hands, which would be earth-shattering for the Democrat Party and agenda, resulting in a 279-156 Republican lead. Of course, that would also assume that we had someone with real conservative principles to lead the GOP...something sorely lacking in the latest standard bearers for the party, George W. Bush and John McCain.