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Congress: Slouching Towards Surrender
Investor’s Business Daily, which runs the best editorial cartoons, points out that instead of a “Do-Nothing Congress,” they seem to be about one thing: surrender.
For all the promises of its new Democratic leaders, Congress seems truly interested in doing only one thing: surrendering in Iraq. No wonder its public approval ratings have sunk below the president’s.
Congressional Democrats’ latest attempt to leave our troops in Iraq high and dry comes in the form of amendments to, of all things, the Water Resources Development Act. For all the promises of its new Democratic leaders, Congress seems truly interested in doing only one thing: surrendering in Iraq.
. . . What can you say about a Congress that cannot pass a bill to fund our troops? This is a Congress that actually ties spending for the global war on terrorism to a nearly $14 billion water bill, a chunk of which is devoted to Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts.
As Congressional Quarterly noted this week, since taking over Congress this year, the Democrats have only passed 26 laws, 12 of which “changed the name of a federal building, post office or national recreation area.”
So much for the “new America” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised, transformed by fresh measures on energy, health care and campaign finance. Maybe we should be grateful: Better they do nothing than something utterly wrong or even harmful.
This Congress largely has refused to find common ground with the president on anything. No wonder Gallup reports this week that Congress’ approval rating, which has dropped steadily from 37% when Democrats took over, is now at 29% — well below the 33%-and-holding for President Bush that the media routinely describes as “rock-bottom.”
Congress’ dismal rating is also 3 percentage points below the 32% average of the first five months of the year, with some 64% of those polled by Gallup disapproving of the new Congress’ performance.
Remember the hoopla about Pelosi’s first “hundred hours”? The 110th Congress has now passed the 100-day mark. What has it done?
Call you congressional representatives today. Tell them to stop slouching towards surrender and to support the surge dot com!