Congressional Limbo

The latest Gallup survey finds that 71 percent of respondents express disapproval of Congress. the congressional job approval rating stands at 24 percent.

It is unusual for congressional job approval ratings to be at or below 24%. Congress has been rated this negatively only a few times in the four decades Gallup has measured this item -- in 1979, during the energy crisis; at several points during the "term limits era" of 1990 to 1994; and last year.

That low, and they have only just begun their orgy of spending and taxing.