18%. Can you believe it? 18%!!!

Next time your liberal friend decides to play the old "Bush's approval ratings are so low..." game with you, throw him this little bone (via Stop the ACLU):

A new Gallup Poll finds Congress’ approval rating the lowest it has been since Gallup first tracked public opinion of Congress with this measure in 1974. Just 18% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, while 76% disapprove, according to the August 13-16, 2007, Gallup Poll.

That 18% job approval rating matches the low recorded in March 1992, when a check-bouncing scandal was one of several scandals besetting Congress, leading many states to pass term limits measures for U.S. representatives (which the Supreme Court later declared unconstitutional). Congress had a similarly low 19% approval rating during the energy crisis in the summer of 1979.

18%…say it…18%. According to Sporting News Radio, this is the same approval rating Mike Vick currently “enjoys.” Another poll puts him at 5% as of early August (maybe he has some pity points now from girls who like to marry dudes in Rikers Island). Ouch.

The “honeymoon” that was supposed to have been, never was. As a matter of fact, this nadir is not much of a cliff plunge, as the lofty apex of approval for the Donkey Con-gress was a royal 37%.

As it stands, the battered and shrinking President Bush is twice as popular as the Donkey Con-gress at 36%.

Quick! Somebody break out the mainstream media spin machines, to paint this as some abberration, or hiccup, etc. No, people do not like the way this Congress is handling many issues, especially the whole giving amnesty to illegal aliens thingy. But, hey, you know that NBC Nightly News will lead with some story about Lindzee Lowhanne, or some other tripe rather than let you know that THREE QUARTERS of the American people disapprove of the way Congress is (not) doing their job.