The latest Gallup Poll says approval of Congress is creeping up slightly…from the previous 21% approval to a whopping 26% approval. If you had a restaurant where only 26% of your customers approved of the food, you'd burn the place down for the insurance money.
But the thing is: I don't know what the 68% disapproval rating means because the pollsters don't ask that question. How many of the disapprovers are mad about the direction Congress seems to be heading in and how many are mad about that they aren't there yet? My friend Roger is pissed at Congress because he thinks it's going to pass Health Care Reform. I'm ticked because I think they're going to pass a watered-down, ineffective bill that will help the big insurance and pharmaceutical companies a lot more than it'll help people who are suffering. I'm also annoyed they haven't done even that so far.
We both disapprove and if asked by a pollster, that's what we'd say. Why don't more pollsters try to separate out those kinds of disapproval?