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[Auto Post]Lawmakers Stoke the Public's Disgust
« on: August 01, 2010, 01:30:06 PM »
Lawmakers Stoke the Public's Disgust
                                       


 Dan Balz, Washington Post
It's hard to imagine what could drive public approval of Congress even lower than it has been this year. But a pending public ethics trial of one of the House's most senior Democrats (and possibly a second) and an angry, prolonged tirade on the House floor that has gone round the cable networks and YouTube just may be the answer.

Anyone who has ever spent time talking with voters -- in shopping malls or on soccer fields, at their doorsteps or in focus groups -- has heard the most common complaints about politicians in Washington.

One is an expression of disgust over what people...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/08/01/lawmakers_stoke_the_public039s_disgust_238754.html