AMERICANS DON'T WANT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS RE-ELECTED, ACCORDING TO POLLS

Just 8 percent of Americans want the members of Congress re-elected, according to a CBS News-New York Times poll taken nine months before roughly one-third of the Senate and the entire House face voters.

The Feb. 5-10 survey found 81 percent of respondents saying the lawmakers shouldn't’t receive another term.

By 80 percent to 13 percent, Americans said members of Congress are more interested in serving special interests than the people they represent.

Also, 75 percent disapproved of the job Congress is doing, the highest level since 74 percent said they disapproved in October 2008. Congress’s job approval rating was 15 percent in the current survey; it was 12 percent in October 2008.

Another poll released today also showed electoral discontent. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press survey found that 31 percent of U.S. voters don’t want their representative to Congress re-elected. That’s higher than in 1994 and 2006, when midterm elections shifted party control on Capitol Hill.

Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Edward Kennedy has revealed that he is retiring from Congress.He has had struggles with depression and substance abuse.





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WHAT COMES FIRST WITH NORM COLEMAN, PARTY OR FAMILY ??

Why doesn't Norm Coleman step aside and let Franken be seated ? I wonder how his family feels about this ? Is this how he wants to be remembered ? He has not thought about his legacy. Coleman accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of backing out of an agreement to let Coleman's staffers wrap up constituent cases, leaving 400 cases open.

Reid denied there was ever a deal.Coleman said Reid agreed to let his staffers take 60 days from the end of his term to wrap up the cases. A Reid spokesman said the Senate could not allow staff to do constituent work if they are not under the supervision of a senator because Norm Coleman was no longer a senator.

If Coleman had won by a landslide,it would say something about the voters. Maybe that's why they wanted him out because he wasn't taking action on their cases. I think he will be forever know as a sore loser who refused to give up when clearly the voters spoke.