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Should we hold the Democratic Congress to the same standards they want to hold Genral Petraeus?
Take every argument they're using to get us out of Iraq -ignore Petraeus, deny his plan, the time to work and so forth - and turn it around against them. The current leadership of Congress has failed to deliver on their promises. They failed to set the country on the "right course." They've failed to gain the support of the American people. They're a total political failure. As a matter of fact, during their leadership, Reid and Pelosi, the American people have overwhelmingly rejected their leadership. Anybody who has lost faith with General Petraeus has to be disgusted with Reid and Pelosi. If the Petraeus leadership can be judged in, what is it, two or three months now, the Reid and Pelosi leadership's had two or three times as much time and has clearly accomplished nothing, except a whole bunch of political stunts. Disapproval of the Reid-Pelosi Congress has collapsed, 37% to 24% after only six months. Using their line of reasoning, we need new leaders in Congress now. Right?
Congress Approval Rating 16% according to Rasmussen.
ArgleBargleWoogleBoo: I agree with you on that. Neither party has been held responsible for their actions or rhetoric. Only now, after the Immigration Debate, have the American People realized that we can stop Legislation we don't like.
stephen k: Congress' approval rating has fallen between 24% and 37% depending on the poll. I mis-typed.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
We should hold them to the standard that they are using on our military action as a whole. They argue that there is no progress being made, and are only agitating in Iraq, and therefore should withdraw. I feel that the current Congress is making no progress and I find them agitating. Therefore Congress should be withdrawn from Washington.
- Experto CredoLv 71 decade ago
Excuse me, if disapproval has "collapsed", doesn't the statement mean approval has risen?
Should the better statement be "approval of the Reid-Pelosi Congress has sunk from 37% to 24% in six months"?
I assume that you can send folks to the site where you are pulling these statistics from so we may judge for ourselves.
And, if I may add, if someone like Elizabeth Dole is calling for withdrawal of the troops, doesn;t this show that the republicans have lost faith in the Bush-Cheney leadership.
Bush has an approval rating of 29% (oh that is a USA poll, conduct July 6-8, 2007)
In fact NO POLL this year has had him crack 40% approval.
Source(s): http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm - buzzfeedbrennyLv 51 decade ago
Paragraph 1-67 of Field Manual 3-24 entitled "Counterinsurgency" (COIN) issued by the U.S. Army and written by General Petraeus states that "twenty counter-insurgents per 1000 residents is often considered the minimum troop density required for effective COIN operations."
The troop surge deployed by the Bush Administration, concentrated on COIN operations in Baghdad, would require 30,000 to 57,500 additional troops to match his stated ratio for sustained operations.
Where do you suppose the General's standards are at this point?
- 1 decade ago
Awesome question!
While I am against the Republicans I think the Demcratisc congress has been a massive failure.
So if we held them to the sane standard we'd be turning our backs on them now.
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- 1 decade ago
only if we get to hold the GOP and Bush to same standards for throwing road blocks on the things the dems want to accomplish.
No worries, the 2008 election will decide all of that and the american people will vote on who is really pushing their overall agenda...dems or GOP.
lol
- GeminiLv 51 decade ago
No because the Congress represents U.S. citizens who control the military... not the other way around.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
If republicans held their politicians to the same standards they hold the rest of the world to - their heads would implode.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Wow! I never thought of that. Yeah we should. They promised the world, they've delivered.....wait......hold on. I know they did something.........NON BINDING RESOLUTION. Yeah, that's it. Oh wait, that's still nothing isn't it?
