Paul Ryan Responds To Congress' 10% Approval Rating: Blame Senate For Not Passing Legislation | Mediaite

Republicans really think the electorate is stupid and not on to them. They do know, their constituents either doesn't care or just don't pay attention but the rest of the country does. The Dems were voted out back in 08 because of low ratings 18-19% and frustration with congress. It is obvious the frustration is still there but republicans think with an approval rating of 10% they will be rewarded by trying to put congressional inactivity soley on Democrats. Again, an insult to the intelligence of the responsible voter.

Republicans feel they will be rewarded for their obstrutionism, why? I have no idea... They keep saying independents will decide this election, I STRONGLY disagree, I conclude the Latino American will finally have their say in our political process, thus they will realize the power they really have and so far the Latino vote is not leaning republican. Sure they will get the Cuban American vote in Florida, but that will be it... Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans vote democratic and republican rhetoric has increased their alienation of that demographic....

#3.1 I notice you didn't say how much higher? Why?

Lowest the previous congress faced I believe was 18% in 2008. So 8 points higher.

I read 13% on several sites today when I looked it up. Said it was a tie with the present congress which also was 13% at that time. Not much brag room over 3% since it is an approval rating and not an election. Not that 18% is anything to crow about either.

Can both Ryan and Stephanopoulos be recalled? (Sarcasm on Georgie) But will chip in for Ryan recall.

Zerban for Congress.....donate to this guy, so he can do his best to unseat little Eddie

http://www.robzerban.com/

He knows most people are too busy or too lazy to look up the truth so the GOP base and some of the Independents will take what he says as Gospel.

The perception is already out there. 10%. Doesn't matter what Ryan says, it will never change that 10%.

If there was anything for him to crow about, the GOP would have done that already.

They have nothing, and have made sure that it stayed that way. It's only now, that they realize what an untenable position they're in?

Fools.

@neo......"He knows most people are too busy or too lazy to look up the truth so the GOP base and some of the Independents will take what he says as Gospel."

The gNOp are so friggin lazy with their research they expect those of us who actually engage our brains to do the research for them. Dumbasses! Can't say how many times I have had a "DISSCUSSION" with a reTHUGliCON and asked for supporting fact on their sde and they actually told me to look it up for myself........Again....DUMBASSES!

Working tirelessly for multi billionaire corporations and the Koch brothers. It is kinda like a Republican Aerobics class with Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner dressed in leotards in front doing bending over exercises for lobbyists.

And here is Paul Ryan's budget proposal for the future: continue with tax cuts to the rich and tax loopholes and subsidies for corporations, and then continue with over the top excessive military spending. DUH! That's how we got here with the national debt.

What The Won't Tell You About The National Debt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1bZ-TiX8rA

This information can also be found at the zfacts national debt website.

This information is explained here:

Thom Hartmann: Republicans ran up the debt & now they don't want to pay the bill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPKNqNnXL9Y&feature=player_embedded#!

Reagan and the two Bushes account for $9 trillion of the national debt, over $11 trillion with interest added in. That is about 73 percent of the total national debt by just three Republican presidents. How did they do that? Tax cuts to the rich, tax loopholes and subsidies for corporations, with over the top excessive military spending. During their terms in office America accounted for more of the world's military spending than all other countries combined.

Then Paul Ryan is working tirelessly for the multi billionaire corporations that would stand to make trillions of dollars in the long term from privatizing Social Security. Follow the money into Paul's pockets. And if we have a mandate privatized pensions, a Republican deregulated Wall Street will be all over them to create the next recession. Another big DUH! What just happened to almost all of the 401K/private pensions. They got $crewed by Wall Street white collar criminals fraudulently selling those over rate bundles of junk loans/mortgages.

What it looks like in real life is the Thursday meetings that John Boehner started in the assembly hall right next to the floor of the House of Representatives. Those meetings are set up for Republicans legislators as a group meeting corporate lobbyists as a group for the purpose of the wholesale sell out of GOP votes for money.

And it was John Boehner that was ordered to sit down during a debate on extending subsidies for Tobacco corporations because he was handing out checks to Republican legislators from those very same Tobacco corporations. And it was the same John Boehner that was caught living rent free in a house owned by a lobbyist. And it was the same John Boehner that assigned writing "The Pledge" to one of his ex lobbyist aides. That's why it reads like a regurgitated copy of Newt Gingrich's "The Contract With America." It was the same John Boehner that met with a convention of Wall Street lobbyists to arrange for payment of millions of dollars to Republicans for obstruction and sabotage of new regulations on Wall Street giants. It is the same John Boehner that was paid over $1 million by oil corporations to get the Keystone Pipeline legislation passed. It is the same John Boehner that is invested in seven of the Keystone corporations so that passing this legislation would lead directly to personal profits.

There is even a rumor about John being in bed with a female lobbyist. Maybe accusing John of being a "lobbiophile" might be going too far.

It is kinda like a Republican Aerobics class with Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner dressed in leotards in front doing bending over exercises for lobbyists.

Arrghhhh! You've damaged me for life! That image cannot be erased!

Damn you!

Then he must be very dizzy by now...

flashy: I'm visualizing your comment w/o spitting my coffee on my keyboard!!!! LOL! (clockwise or counterclockwise?)

And yet, if you actually break down the numbers, Democrats in Congress are polling in the teens while Republicans are polling in the single-digits.

Now that most certainly means that no one is looking to take any member of Congress to dinner...that's a fact...but it means that when hard pressed, everything being level, people will pick a Democrat over a Republican (even if they claim "they're all the same" on talk-radio, etc.)

And that's only been true since the Republican House has been in operation. Tells me volumes.

And yet if you break down the numbers even further, if you poll the approval rating of a persons 'own congressman', the numbers go right up. The problem isn't that people don't like their congressman, the problem is that people don't like the body.

If this weren't the case, then we wouldn't have the same idiotic congressman being reelected over and over and over again.

It has more to do with who they work for, not the work they do. Enter stage right; WallStreet,ALEC,Koch bros,Big Oil,big Pharma etc...you know, the CREATORS...never mind their constituents back home. They only come into the picture around election time, with tons of bs to keep them pacified. Then repeat the process over and over...

2004-50% 2005-45% 2006-29% 2007-29% 2008-23% 2009-19% I googled it and this is what I found.

What we currently have is a "bipolar" and extremely partisan political environment. What America needs to a multi party system. I would support an independent party in the middle focused entirely on the economy/jobs and leaving the extra social issues alone. Just Americans in the same boat trying to stay afloat instead of sinking. Just families trying to stay afloat in the midst of Wall Street speculation driven inflation and our largest and riches corporations not reinvesting in America in process of outsourcing jobs and factories to Asian sweat shops. And that party would need to be against our current foreign aid and diplomacy in the Mideast and end all of our quagmires. American resources need to stay in America.

I'll drink to that...as a matter of fact, make mine a double!

rick......I know that really pissed me off too.....especially when you consider most of his constituents are older farmers. Did you see the video of his goons treatment of the 71 year old man who wanted to ask a few questions?

http://bloggingblue.com/2011/09/07/video-rep-paul-ryan-cracks-a-joke-at-the-expense-of-a-71-year-old-man-being-put-on-ground-and-handcuffed-by-police/

He's such a little pu$$y!

Nope, but even Warthog moms love little warthog piglets, don't they? Lol...unless there really is such a thing as a right wing MIRROR...

Wisconsin has so many great things (My Dad was from Wisconsin)....great cheese and the Packers. How is it that you have such crummy politicans? Come on, is Mr. Walker/Koch and P. Ryan the best you can do? Try harder. Anything is better than these two.

Yearning...

Your comment is intelligent, insightful and articulate, and quite sadly...spot on. Well done...!!!

It's a pleasure to "see" you. I will remember you.

The House passed a bill that Blocks EPA from requiring a Clean Water Act permit for pesticides into navigable waters.

Any random accident that blocking regulation related to air, water and food quality is a high priority for ALEC and the Koch brothers?

The ALEC exposed website:

http://alecexposed.org/wiki/What_is_ALEC%3F#What_is_ALEC.3F

Grover Norquist is sponsored by ALEC.

Both parties have their issues with taking corporate money, but there is no Democratic Party equivalent for Norquist or ALEC. And there is evidence of Koch influence on the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that allowed unlimited corporate contributions to election campaigns and gave corporations "personhood."

Dump the Teapublicans into Boston Harbor with the British Tea. No, wait a second! They are throwing themselves in!

Ah! The huge manatee! Will we miss their grandstanding, such as having the Constitution read to an empty House of Representatives? Then the huge lecture about "In God We Trust?"

Don't let the swinging door hit you on the butt on the way out. They need to be charged first for all of that wasted time spent on grandstanding.

Sorry, but the 112th has been one of the most ineffective sessions of Congress ever.

They've had the shortest daily sessions of any Congress and enacted the lowest % of laws.

Congress by the Numbers

Yeah I know and that is because the Senate does not want to make any waves until re-election is over. I am sure that they do not want the pubic to see them work with the Republicans on any issue. It is the mission of the progressives to vilify the Republicans and blames only them for stagnation and therefore it is the progressive’s hope of picking up the House. What the Democrats fail to realize is that they control the executive and judicial branches and half of the legislative branch hell the Democrats could not get anything accomplished, including a budget when they controlled all three branches of government.

And the party of NO and obstruction ends up with .... drum roll...... NO track record to run on in the next election cycle. They can clear tell you what they are against, anything offered by Obama and the Democrats. Then when voters ask what they are FOR they foam at the mouth and go into an endless rant about sexuality, birth control, abortion, gun rights, the Muslim- Kenyan in the white house, etc....

Brite are you asking if I am "OK" with filibustering in order to block big government? Yes! That is what filibustering is for, to block bad policy that a majority are pushing through without compromise or against the will of the American people. Progressives, liberals and Democrats are confusing a different point of view as "obstructionism". The only time that the filibuster is used is when the Democrats attempted to pass policies without compromise and when the Democrats could not get what they wanted and then called it "obstructionism".

the last four years than in the history of this nation?? Alrighty then...

The last four years are going to be looked back on as the time when the United States almost went the way of Western Europe, which is doomed to fail if they do not change their socioeconomic policies. We live in dangerous times and this President is more then willing to take our country in the direction of big government and once and for all do away with what has made this the greatest nation in the history of mankind, and that is freedom and the continuing of the greatest experiment of man...self governance.

They filibustered their own bills! They filibustered bills that were taken from Republican ideas

These bills were voted down after the Democrats added irreconcilable amendments. Look it up.

The Republican party has gone down a dark path

I look at this in a different way. President Obama and our media, judicial and educational systems have taken our nation down a dark path and there are many Americans that, apparently like yourself, want to go down the path that this President is leading us down. Please remember that then Senator Obama ran as a moderate and has since back peddled on the majority of the sweeping governmental changes that he was going put into effect. During the worst economic decline in our life time all that President and Democrats talked about was the patient affordable care act in which Nancy Pelosi stated that needed to be passed to see what was in the bill. The moderate Democrat, Independent and the moderate Republican have been set up to be removed all one has to do is look at the divisiveness that this President and the progressive (not liberal) media has caused and as a result our country is at a cross roads, do we want to remain independent of our government or do we want dependency which will lead to oppression without acception? We shall see in November.

"Our foremost goal is to make Barak Obama a one term President."

and those of us that have looked into President Obama's background as a community leader and his ties with socialist radicals could not agree more. Our media has yet to vet this President and that is unheard of. Do you yourself know anything about this Presidents background?

Brite,

Do you honestly think you are going to have a productive conversation with someone that has the alias 'Fox_News'?

Do you honestly think you are going to have a productive conversation with someone that has the alias 'Fox_News'?

Please feel free to debunk anything I have stated. Too easy.

he/she is perfectly OK with obstructionism...

No response Brite? You sure were on your high horse about filibusters and now that you have been presented with a non-debatable argument it is easier to deflect? How does the world look through ideological blinders? You can always ask Barney Frank.

Fox_news

you wouldn't listen to reason the last time, what makes anyone think that you would any other time.

I am just trying to figure out which re-reg character you are.

Way to all him/her out on their lack of substance, Brite.

Why am I always surprised at the lack of substantive argument from the right? Oh, yeah, I'm really very naive.

you wouldn't listen to reason the last time,

Ones ideology, hyperbole and vitriol is not reason, facts are.

Have a great night... It's a GOOD Budgetary Night, according Ezra Klein! LOL

I doubt it because even the Democrats,without exception, voted a resounding "NO" on President Obama's last budget offer.

You have presented no evidence to support your position. I feel no need to truly respond to you, Fox_News.

If you do not realize the far reaching effects of this then I give up: Read the bold print Brite,

T-H-E B-O-L-D P-R-I-N-T is important. It is evidence. Got it?

Harry Reid shocked Congress when, without warning, he deployed the so-called "nuclear option" to change the Senate's rules. No, he didn't get rid of the filibuster. He barred senators from (stay with us) making motions to suspend the rules, a move that allows them to propose and debate on non-germane amendments after a bill has already defeated a filibuster and moved to a final vote. The new rule passed 51-48 along partisan lines, though only after some heated conversations between some Democrats and Reid, Politico reports.

and CuriousG go snipe else where you bore me.

I agree with Paul on a number of issues, such as a non interventionist foreign policy, substantially reducing military spending and closing down the Fed. I even agree with legalizing marijuana. However, he signed Norquist's pledge. His anti tax position goes way too far and he should not align himself to Norquist/ALEC/ the Koch brothers.

We desperately need a multi party system, hopefully with a clear choice in the middle focused on the economy/jobs/national debt only and leaving the other issues alone. There is no way to pay down the national debt while leaving tax cuts to the rich, tax loopholes/subsidies for corporations, and over the top excessive military spending alone. Tax an spend may be crazy, but tax cuts and spend is crazier.