Friday, October 11, 2013

Fire 'Em All!

From Yahoo:
"Fire 'em! Majority want to toss entire Congress: Poll"

Throw the bums out. That's the message 60 percent of Americans are sending to Washington in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, saying if they had the chance to vote to defeat and replace every single member of Congress, including their own representative, they would. Just 35 percent say they would not. The 60 percent figure is the highest-ever in that question recorded in the poll, registered in the wake of the government shutdown and threat of the U.S. defaulting on its debt for the first time in history. If the nation's debt limit is not increased one week from now, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warns that the entire global economy could be in peril.  "We continue to use this number as a way to sort of understand how much revulsion there is," said Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted the poll with Republican Bill McInturff. "We now have a new high-water mark."  The numbers reflect a broader trend over the last few years. Americans have traditionally said that while they might not like Congress, they usually like their own representatives. But that sentiment appears to have shifted.  The throw-them-all-out attitude has slowly taken hold over the last three years, coinciding with two things - the rise of the Tea Party caucus in the House and the debt ceiling fight of 2011.  In October 2010, a majority of Americans - 50 percent to 47 percent - said they would not fire all congressional members. But by August 2011, 54 percent said they would toss every lawmaker from office; in January 2012, 56 percent said that; and just three months ago, in July, it was 57 percent. Democratic pollster Fred Yang, who helped conduct the poll with Hart, added that Americans are paying attention to this fight and want it resolved before the debt ceiling deadline of Oct. 17."This isn't the calm before the storm," Yang said. "This is the storm before the storm."

^ I couldn't agree more!^

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fire-em-majority-want-toss-113038670.html

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