Americans Really Don't Like Their Congresscritters
Fifty-one percent say their own representatives suck.
House members at home for August recess might want to hide their congressional pins: A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds a record-high share of Americans disapprove of their own congressman/woman.
Just over half the public, 51 percent, say they disapprove of the job that their own member of Congress is doing in the new poll, rising above the 50 percent threshold for the first time in the quarter-century of Post-ABC polling on this question.
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Back in the 80s they called VAIO! (Vote All Incumbents Out!) but now I guess they've coalesced into this:
http://www.kickthemallout.com/
If I were to meet any congress critter on the street, and they were stupid enough to ask what I wanted, it would be "principles, fucking principles is all I ask, pee ell eee ess, not pee aaa ell ess."
Some, like Amash and Rand Paul, are light years ahead of the others, but most of them are worthless corrupt wastes of skin.
I guess I fall into that 51% I'm happy with Trey Gowdy and Tim Scott, but would really like to get rid of Lindsey Graham.