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Time to Make Congress Telecommute?

By Troy Senik
Thursday, September 04 2014

If you want a sign that America’s civic health is not yet in terminal decline, here you go: We still hate Congress. According to the most recent RealClearPolitics polling average, disapproval of the legislative branch is at over 78 percent. Sure, there are plenty of Beltway chin-scratchers who will tell you that this is a function of Washington’s gridlock — and they’re probably at least partially right. I prefer to look at those numbers through a happier prism. Congress is The Man. And Americans are still cussed enough to want to stick it to The Man. (Now if only we could…

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