Link ...yet many people still approve of their own representative. Question: Do you approve or disapprove the way the representative from your congressional district is handling his or her job?
On a serious note. Leadership in all branches are fucking pissing me off. They are acting like grade schoolers fighting over stale candy. It's really embarrassing.
If only they would remember this when it was time to vote them out of office. Hint, not going to happen.
I'm happy 90% of the time how my congressmen vote. I try to write them if something big comes out and I didn't like how they acted.
There was an interesting article yesterday in the Post about the role of gerrymandering in the shutdown: Did Republican gerrymandering cause the government shutdown?
I disapprove of all of mine. I much prefer the representative people in other States select. Not presenting one giant continuing resolution doesn't bother me at all. Several small appropriations is the way it is suppose to work. Each program funded should be scrutinized each year and those that are not longer wanted should not be funded. That is how it should work year after year. I have been waiting to get scheduled into the VA hospital for eye surgery for a couple weeks now but the government is closed down. So be it, hell, the house can fund what they agree should be funded and that is the way it should work I can wait even if I can't drive, so be it.
Democrats had the house and 60 votes in the senate in 2008. It's not Gerrymandering that lost the house in 2010, it was policies people didn't like.