Hang down your head
From Rasmussen:
The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.
Last month, 11% of voters gave the legislature good or excellent ratings. Congress has not received higher than a 15% approval rating since the beginning of 2008.
Let’s take stock. Congressional approval (Democrat) is abysmal, for good reason. Presidential approval (Republican) is better but languishing at around 30% according to most polls. This is an election year for congressional and presidential races. How, exactly, do we turn the bums out? And if we have nothing but bums, what comes next?
Well, it’s only July. The elections aren’t until November. So what we should do next is turn to Tom Waits.
That’s right, Matilda. Tom Waits.
Turning to Tom Waits will definitely benefit the nation: everyone should wear a hat, wear dressier clothes, dance and yell, occasionally pull out a hat covered in mirrors and make a spectacle of ourselves, complain about how it’s all going to hell, have another whiskey or bourbon, bitch bitch bitch about the relatives, and remember America as it never was. Hell, “Glitter and Doom” should be the theme for our major party conventions this year since the party is over, it’s all kipple tossed together, and we just need to make something beautiful of this cacaphonous situation. And he never could stand that dog.
What Jon said.
And, don’t vote for the incumbent, no matter who.
My incumbent is Marcy Kaptur. Sob. I’d vote for road kill over her.
What is usually done in polls like these (and I didn’t look hard enough at this one), is that people are then asked to rate their own representative. Usually that scores much higher. So it’s often, “My rep is good, it’s the rest of them that are bums”, which is why we keep getting the same crop of morons.
“Throw the bums out” is a sentiment not shared by nearly enough voters. You used to be able to vote straight tickets (Democrat or Republican), maybe if voting booths included a straight “anti-incumbent” button, more people would choose it.
Edward,
If you’re gonna title a post “Hang Down Your Head”, relevant or not, the only music should be from The Kingston Trio.
BTW, I’ve never heard a Tom Wait song I’d pay for.
Mike
Throughout history
There’ve been many songs written about the eternal triangle
This next one tells the story of a Mr Grayson, a beautiful woman
And a condemned man named Tom Dooley…
When the sun rises tomorrow, Tom Dooley… must hang…
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you’re bound to die
I met her on the mountain
There I took her life
Met her on the mountain
Stabbed her with my knife
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you’re bound to die
This time tomorrow
Reckon where I’ll be
Hadn’t a-been for Grayson
I’d a-been in Tennessee
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you’re bound to die
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you’re bound to die
This time tomorrow
Reckon where I’ll be
Down in some lonesome valley
Hangin’ from a white oak tree
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you’re bound to die
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you’re bound to die
Poor boy, you’re bound to die
Poor boy you’re bound to die
Poor boy, you’re bound to die…
small change got rained on with his own 38 . . .
Kat,
I know I’ll just love once you explain to me!
Mike
Mike,
It’s a line from my favorite Tom Waits song. Kinda like “what goes around, comes around”.
Kat,
Just checked the full song lyrics, reads like a Bob Dylan version of “Stagger Lee”, ie: mostly non-sensical.
As I commented earliear, never been a Tom Waits song even worth the 99 cent iTune download price.
Mike
BTW, if you’re the same “Kat”, who’s linked to and comments at the “Castle”, you do a much better job there!
Mike,
Not the same Kat. I’ve only posted here and rarely. But a definate Waits fan.
My incumbent is Marcy Kaptur.
Ha. I got Jim McDermott *and* Patty Murray.