{"id":718,"date":"2009-09-21T17:13:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T21:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=718"},"modified":"2009-09-21T19:11:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T23:11:03","slug":"members-of-congress-get-no-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/718\/members-of-congress-get-no-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Members of Congress Get No Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/business\/general_business\/september_2009\/americans_now_view_congress_as_least_respected_job\" target=\"_blank\">new Rasmussen Reports survey<\/a>, Members of Congress have surpassed those evil, greedy, no-good Corporate CEOs as having the least respected job in America.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just one-out-of-four Americans (25%) have a favor[able] opinion of members of Congress. Seventy-two percent (72%) view them unfavorably. There\u2019s some intensity in that perception, too. Only four percent (4%) have a very favorable view of congressmen, while 37% view them very unfavorably.<\/p>\n<p>Even 56% of Democrats have an unfavorable view of Congress although their party controls both the House and the Senate. Of course, their opposition pales next to the 86% of Republicans and 81% of adults not affiliated with either party who have an unfavorable opinion of Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Topping the list for most respected profession are small business owners, with 94% of respondents claiming to have a favorable opinion of them vs. a mere 3% who expressed an unfavorable opinion.\u00a0 Journalists finished fifth out of the nine professions asked about with 43% viewing them favorably vs. 54% unfavorably.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how President Obama would rank the professions asked about in the Rasmussen Reports survey?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He must least respect\u00a0those\u00a0&#8220;greedy Corporate CEOs&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0for making profits and creating jobs, right?\u00a0 Or,\u00a0does\u00a0Obama least respect those\u00a0small business owners who stand to lose most from the policies highest on\u00a0his agenda?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then again, maybe Obama agrees with the public and their unfavorable view of Members of Congress, who failed to ram through his cap-and-trade and government-run health care schemes by the\u00a0beginning of August as he demanded?\u00a0\u00a0 No&#8230; he must least respect those biased journalists.\u00a0 How dare that Stephanopoulos press him on the fact that his health care tax is a tax when he says it isn\u2019t a tax, because if it were a tax\u00a0he again would be breaking his promise not to raise taxes on people making less than $250,000 per year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new Rasmussen Reports survey, Members of Congress have surpassed those evil, greedy, no-good Corporate CEOs as having the least respected job in America. Just one-out-of-four Americans (25%) have a favor[able] opinion of members of Congress. Seventy-two percent (72%) view them unfavorably. There\u2019s some intensity in that perception, too. Only four percent (4%) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,24,85],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-obama","tag-rasmussen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}