{"id":8636,"date":"2011-11-18T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=8636"},"modified":"2011-11-18T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T05:25:00","slug":"they-just-dont-listen-we-need-to-get-rid-of-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/18\/they-just-dont-listen-we-need-to-get-rid-of-them-all\/","title":{"rendered":"They just don\u2019t listen\u2026 We need to get rid of them all."},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thereformedbroker.com\/2011\/11\/14\/congressional-job-approval-plumbing-new-depths-of-suckitude\/\">Congressional Job Approval: Plumbing New Depths of Suckitude  <\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/h4>\n<p>from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/view\/feed\/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thereformedbroker.com%2Ffeed%2F\">The Reformed Broker<\/a> by Joshua M Brown <\/p>\n<p>Just when you thought this nation couldn&#8217;t possibly have more disgust for its government, the latest monthly survey from Gallup surfaces&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>PRINCETON<\/strong>, <strong>NJ<\/strong> &#8212; Congressional job approval remains at 13% in November, identical to <strong>October<\/strong> and tying the all-<strong>time<\/strong> Gallup low on this measure. The 2011 average is on track to be the lowest annual rating of <strong>Congress<\/strong> in Gallup&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thereformedbroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/congress-1.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"congress 1\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thereformedbroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/congress-1.gif?resize=494%2C300\" width=\"494\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thereformedbroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/congress-2.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"congress 2\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thereformedbroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/congress-2.gif?resize=514%2C324\" width=\"514\" height=\"324\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Keep it up, gang. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/150728\/Congress-Job-Approval-Entrenched-Record-Low.aspx\"><strong>Congress&#8217; Job Approval Entrenched at Record Low of 13% (Gallup)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Job Approval: Plumbing New Depths of Suckitude <\/p>\n<p><p>from The Reformed Broker by Joshua M Brown <\/p>\n<p>Just when you thought this nation couldn&#8217;t possibly have more disgust for its government, the latest monthly survey from Gallup surfaces&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>PRINCETON, NJ &#8212; Congressional job approval remains at 13% in November, identical to October and tying the all-time Gallup low on this measure. The 2011 average is on track to be the lowest annual rating of Congress in Gallup&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Keep it up, gang. <\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<p>Congress&#8217; Job Approval Entrenched at Record Low of 13% (Gallup)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>They just don\u2019t listen\u2026 We need to get rid of them all. - And That was How it Went<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/18\/they-just-dont-listen-we-need-to-get-rid-of-them-all\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"They just don\u2019t listen\u2026 We need to get rid of them all. - And That was How it Went\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Congressional Job Approval: Plumbing New Depths of Suckitude  from The Reformed Broker by Joshua M Brown Just when you thought this nation couldn&#8217;t possibly have more disgust for its government, the latest monthly survey from Gallup surfaces&#8230; PRINCETON, NJ &#8212; Congressional job approval remains at 13% in November, identical to October and tying the all-time Gallup low on this measure. 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