Monday, April 24, 2006

No One Listens to Average Joe

Star-Telegram | 04/23/2006 | A deaf ear for America's concerns:
"A deaf ear for America's concerns
By Jim Wright
Special to the Star-Telegram

Only 27 percent of Americans, by the latest accounting, think our national leadership is moving us in the right direction.

President Bush and his congressional followers sank last week to the lowest public approval levels they've registered in the five-plus years since Bush became president.

According to the most recent nationwide Gallup poll, the GOP-led Congress is more unpopular right now than the Democratic Congress was in 1994 when the public unseated the Democrats' 40-year House majority. Today, only 23 percent approve of the job that this Congress is doing. A thundering 70 percent disapprove!

Personnel shuffles won't change anything. That's razzle-dazzle. This goes deeper.

The conclusion seems inescapable: America's mythical 'average' person believes that Bush and his GOP cohorts have habitually ignored the public's strongest concerns. . ."

The articles continues with a comprehensive look at public concerns.