Congress has a lower approval rating than the Pres?

A shorty, but a goody. Or at least a thought provoker, so I have to say something...

First of all, this really improves my approval of the American people. I thought people didn't care, but I must have been wrong, and boy am I glad. I can actually say that this is one of thew few approval polls that I care about, and am actually happy about.

It's nice to see that people now care about what their leaders do. We elect congressmen and congresswomen so that they can voice our opinions in the national government. The ideal representative puts aside their personal values (unless they are aligned with their constituents) in order to happily serve the people they serve. However, in today's highly partisan politics, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Should we totally clean out Congress, though? Probably not. If we did do that, no one there would have any idea of what to do, or what things are going on at the moment. It wouldn't be good. However, I do think it would be good to get rid of some of the politicians that have been there for thirty, fourty years. That's a little ridiculous. Their district can't find anyone else? I just find it hard to believe that someone who has spent so much time on Capitol Hill would still have the drive to be a good leader.

Congress should be more responsible than the President. To me, the President, a single person, is the one who should be proposing crazy measures, not a group of 535 individuals acting collectively. Normally, you would expect them to wring out the radicalism.