Just a brief update to say that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced that he will keep the Senate in session all night Tuesday and into Wednesday to bring attention to the Iraq vote. Workers will set up cots outside the Chamber for Senators to sleep on in between votes. Although even this extreme step will not garner enough votes to pass the bill, it certainly is interesting and attention-getting! Hopefully it will get enough attention to eventually make some progress and allow the Senate to pass a good bill.

For those of you who haven't heard already, the poll numbers for the 110th Congress have hit new lows. With an approval rating in the 24-27 % range, and disapproval ratings in the 60-71 % range, America appears to be unhappier with the Congress than they are with the President (approval 26-31%, disapproval 60-66%). My question is, why is this happening?

While true I did predict in November that citizens would quickly get frustrated with Congress once they realized that they couldn't do everything they promised at once, I didn't predict Congressional approval ratings going below the President's. Some seem to think that this discontent with Congress indicates discontent with the Democrats, and yet polls show that voters still would rather have a Democrat representing them then a Republican.

So again, my question is, why are the numbers so bad? Don't the American people realize that while Democrats may have full control of the House, they have a razor-thin majority in the Senate, which often acts as a roadblock? And don't they realize that there aren't enough Democrats to override any Presidential veto? I think the most important question here is why the American people disapprove of Congress's job more that the President's, even though the President is the one who is vetoing the legislation the American people want!