Well then a simple measure would be to have people rate their own congressmen, in a similar man(n)er as you have Americans rate their own president.

The unhappyness with the Democratically controled congress was expressed by voting more Democrat's into congress. I suspect your assesment about why it's unpopular is flawed

I'm pretty sure they do, and since a majority of the people that would have a valid POV about each individual congressman probably voted for that person, it would probably be an overwhelming popularity, unless a situation like Blago in Chicago were in effect. So it wouldn't be a comparable statistic. It would be like rating a mom and pop grocery store to a WalMart Supercenter. The results would be skewed. All the folks where the mom & pop are might just love the crap out of it, and hate WalMart, but since people two states away have never heard of that mom & pop, they wouldn't be able to give a credible opinion on it. But everybody knows WalMart.

They why IS it unpopular? What exactly is doing so well that our country is better off than since they came into power

More democrats were voted in because of every media outlet blaming the republicans for the mess we're in. They would have voted in Bozo the Clown if he was running democrat. And they almost got him in Al Franken, luckily they came to their senses before that misstep became a reality.

Hey look, Republican defending the advocation of Domestic terrorism, apparently outright saying it is ok for Republicans.

uh huh look at the dodging.

From the looks of the stats, it's apparent that Republicans are the primary source of disatisfaction with Congress. They rate MUCH lower than congressional Democrats.

Blame the media, I mean it could not possibly because you guys ran the show for years and the country is a mess. Nope, never consider the possibility of people changing their mind for legitimate reasons, it must be evil liberal mind control

You crack me up! I can tell when someone is being a smartass and you can't. I've proven it over and over time and time again with you. When sarcasm is at play, it only seems to offend those who are on the receiving end. I take it with a grain of salt on both sides.

Pot meet kettle, I'm still waiting for a real instance of someone (besides Ann Coulter--who makes a living saying things that shock liberals like yourself) from the republican party advocating domestic terrorist attacks.

But I can go dig up what each state thinks of their respective congressmen, but in a statistical comparison to the president it will be apples vs. oranges. Unless you want me to only use Bush's stats from his congressional district in Texas.

You still haven't told me why somebody would rate their congress man as higher and not their president.

Republicans have lost their presidential election, they lost massive numbers of seats, and they are massively unpopular in congress. Unlike Democratic congress members.

Because I have no real idea why. But I know Nancy Pelosi has about a 9% approval rating in Washington, but in her congressional district it's about 46%. What is there to explain except people love her in California and despise her elsewhere. I don't know exactly what you want me to give you, but I still say anything using disproportionate statistics will not give valid results.

And I say that Coulter's statement was meaningless because she said it to shock the guy she was talking to at the time (sorry forget his name--it's meaningless too) and the fact that McVeigh was already in prison made it a moot point. She and everyone else knew it was something that could never happen. A wish is not an advocation of anything.

I guess they must all have zeros in their popularity columns to drag those great democratic numbers down so low. Something's keeping them in there, they must be buying their seats. Hello, Rezko?

Republicans have lost their presidential election, they lost massive numbers of seats, and they are massively unpopular in congress. Unlike Democratic congress members.

The Republicans will regain the House and Senate...then the white house in 4 years .

A lipstick spattered pitbull with a scorching case of herpes?

I bet he is impeached before then...

It's soooooo bad that they are thinking of running another "Shrub" in Florida. Now that's desperate ...

Floridians ... even in the most traditional "Neocon" areas down here ... are saying ... "Please ... no more 'Shrubs'. NO!!!!!"

While I don't speak for Republicans nationally, I can say with the below statistics recorded in Wikipedia ...

I can say that of the Republicans I have addressed it with here in Jacksonville, all are in favor of his running for the Senate.

So what? That doesn't mean it's good for the Republicans ...

On the whole ... I doubt that the nation (much less Florida) wants to hear anything more about any kind of a "Shrub".

And talk about desperate? A few lines of truth in here can be retaliated with pages and pages of republican citations, quotes and slogans that just make no sense.

How bad is it?
It's so bad, Republicans have finally realized what dogs have always known... Bushes, there only good for one thing... psssssssss tinkle tinkle

Robert Stacey McCain isn’t thrilled at all about the idea of a revived Bush Dynasty:
Especially if a Bush 2010 Senate campaign is a prelude to a Bush presidential campaign in 2012 or ‘16 — and let’s not kid ourselves, that’s what it is — conservatives should oppose it with every means at their disposal. Having fooled ‘em once with Bush 41, they fooled ‘em twice with Bush 43, and now are attempting to fool ‘em again by positioning Jeb to become Bush 45.
No. Not just no, but hell no.
It ought to be clear to intelligent conservatives by now that the Bushes have a hereditary disorder, a genetic predisposition toward bipartisan moderation which they inevitably pursue no matter how many times it leads to disaster. From “kinder, gentler” to “compassionate conservatism,” they are the Republican Party’s answer to Carrie Buck, and if they are allowed into office again, conservatives will be forgiven for quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”

Robert Stacy McCain (born 1959) is an American conservative writer. McCain is a former assistant national editor for The Washington Times and co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of DONKEY CONS: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party.
Early career … McCain was born in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated in 1983 from Jacksonville State University in Alabama. His journalism career began with the (now defunct) Cobb News-Chronicle in 1986.

Frequently writing about such subjects as education and history, McCain was awarded a George Washington Honor Medal from the conservative Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge for his 1995 series of columns about the National Standards for U.S. History. He joined the staff of The Washington Times in November 1997.

The Washington Times … In addition to his regular duties as an editor, McCain has also contributed numerous bylined news and feature articles to The Washington Times.

In 2003, McCain was named editor of the “Culture, Etc.” page of The Washington Times, which appears on Page A2 of the newspaper Monday through Friday. Over the years, McCain has interviewed many prominent conservative authors and personalities, including John Stossel, David Horowitz, Peter Jennings Wendy Shalit, Ronald Radosh, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Tammy Bruce, Andrew Breitbart, William J. Bennett, Phyllis Chesler, Ward Connerly, Michael Savage Dinesh D'Souza, L. Brent Bozell III, David Frum Ann Coulter Michelle Malkin and Cal Thomas. When former President Ronald Reagan died in June 2004, McCain authored the memorial article that appeared as a special feature in The Washington Times.

In 2006, McCain created a blog to promote the book Donkey Cons, and subsequently brought his blogging abilities to work for The Washington Times, establishing the Culture, Etc.” blog, and also contributing to the newspaper’s "Fishwrap" and "Inside Politics" blogs.

McCain has also contributed freelance articles, reviews and commentary pieces to a number of publications including The American Spectator, Reason, The American Conservative, Ripon Forum, and Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, as well as such online forums as The Conservative Voice and The American Thinker.

Robert Stacy McCain (born 1959) is an American conservative writer. McCain is a former assistant national editor for The Washington Times and co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of DONKEY CONS: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party.
Early career … McCain was born in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated in 1983 from Jacksonville State University in Alabama. His journalism career began with the (now defunct) Cobb News-Chronicle in 1986.

Frequently writing about such subjects as education and history, McCain was awarded a George Washington Honor Medal from the conservative Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge for his 1995 series of columns about the National Standards for U.S. History. He joined the staff of The Washington Times in November 1997.

The Washington Times … In addition to his regular duties as an editor, McCain has also contributed numerous bylined news and feature articles to The Washington Times.

In 2003, McCain was named editor of the “Culture, Etc.” page of The Washington Times, which appears on Page A2 of the newspaper Monday through Friday. Over the years, McCain has interviewed many prominent conservative authors and personalities, including John Stossel, David Horowitz, Peter Jennings Wendy Shalit, Ronald Radosh, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Tammy Bruce, Andrew Breitbart, William J. Bennett, Phyllis Chesler, Ward Connerly, Michael Savage Dinesh D'Souza, L. Brent Bozell III, David Frum Ann Coulter Michelle Malkin and Cal Thomas. When former President Ronald Reagan died in June 2004, McCain authored the memorial article that appeared as a special feature in The Washington Times.

In 2006, McCain created a blog to promote the book Donkey Cons, and subsequently brought his blogging abilities to work for The Washington Times, establishing the Culture, Etc.” blog, and also contributing to the newspaper’s "Fishwrap" and "Inside Politics" blogs.

McCain has also contributed freelance articles, reviews and commentary pieces to a number of publications including The American Spectator, Reason, The American Conservative, Ripon Forum, and Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, as well as such online forums as The Conservative Voice and The American Thinker.

McCain has been criticized by the Southern Poverty Law Center, who called him "a member of the white supremacist hate group League of the South" and "has often inserted excerpts of material written by hate groups" into the Times. "In addition, McCain is the only national reporter to cover four conferences put on by American Renaissance. Until 2004, McCain had never mentioned its controversial nature." [30]

Comes directly from Wikipedia, as does your second quote
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stacy_McCain

Ironic you should provide quotes from a source just several posts ago you declared to be untrustworthy,

then offer two quotes from that same source to bolster your opinion, and fail to disclose the fact that THE premier civil rights legal firm in the country (The Southern Poverty Law Center) has this guy "blacklisted".
If this is representative of your idea of a "good" conservative, then I'm extremely content supporting the bad ones....

http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2008/12/read-my-lips-no-more-bushes.html

Heh this is a more salient point, but you see because her source wasn't wikipedia, I suspect she was not aware. You're not aware either, as you missatributed her source.

I will say one thing for Jeb, he is smarter than George, of course it's not as if Bush is a president thats going to be remembered fondly, it's tough to be a politician when you have a name like benedict arnold. :P or perhaps Alfred Hitler.

or hussein, ha ha.

I actually think you just disproved your point; an infamous “name” , no matter how rebuked by the media, is not necessarily representative of the man….
As for Jeb being smarter, you’re basing that on what? 2 second sound bytes? Jeb is very charismatic and very much unlike his brother, comfortable and articulate in front of TV cameras.

The continuous media hatchet job on GWB is simply retribution for the Clinton impeachment, something he had absolutely nothing to do with; let’s hope that Obama isn’t subjected to the same relentless espousal of sour grapes as a result of the unfounded attacks on Bush.

Last time I checked, GW Bush held a Bachelors degree in History from Yale and a Masters Degree in Business from Harvard, while not necessarily a sign of supreme intelligence, it certainly is an indication “the lights are on, and there is somebody home”. Give additional consideration to the fact that he is a two term Governor of Texas and a two term President of The United States and the argument that his intelligence level is substandard is not only completely without merit, but rather obvious self serving elitist partisan bashing.

How Bad is it for Republicans?

I live in Florida and recall Jeb's initial "nickname" as Governor as being "Gov. Duh".
... but, considering the hand he had to have played in the 2000 election of President "Duh-b-ya" I would rather see him stay home.

Jeb Bush left his protege, now Gov. Charlie Crist, with a fiscal mess to deal with. The housing foreclosures are huge and unemployment is higher than the national level, as well. He tried to focus on education in Florida, as his brother did with his national program, and left many doubting the efficacy of his programs, to put it mildly. I think Jeb does possess a "likeability factor" giving you the sense he cares (unlike his brother) but, I can't see I really agreed with his vision for the State.

NO MORE FREAKING BUSH FAMILY IN POLITICS OF ANY KIND!!
I mean gee whiz what are they trying to do finish off what GWB, JR already killed which is America! Hell no any one with any kind of good sense that was given them would say no to all the Bush relatives, Palin and Guiliani. Send these liars, dummies, theives and crooks home.

Jeb is NOT a Native Floridian. Jeb is a nice guy personally, but his policies, like the 30 years of GOP economic policies failed the people of Florida and bankrupted our State. Florida continues to elect (locally) all of these religious extremists because of the amount of hillbillies and rednecks that live in our rural areas - that coincidentially cling to guns and religion - and midwesterners bringing their fly-over country values and poor driving skills.

Wow! This guy really thinks he has a shot. I guess being delusional runs in the family! Bush 1 was bad, Bush II was horrific, Bush 3? Thank you but no thank give it a rest! I don't think the current generation of voters would consider any of the Bush's any where and I'm assuming that would possibly include at least 1/2 the republicans. The republicans are in crisis, they need to refurbish their reputation. Plus the country's new voters are more diverse ethnically and religiously and they are trending towards democrats. So if they want to stay afloat helloooo no more Bush's!

Oh no..He was a disaster for Florida -
He approved the primary date being switched and look at what a disaster that turned out to be. We did appreciate him handing out ice after the 4 hurricanes but thats about it. We dont need or want anymore Bush brothers in office- no way, no how !!!!

If a massively unpopular congress and senate performance rating, a horrible presidential approval rating, and recent electoral paddling doesn't indicate a few problems for the Republican party. You have to wonder what a bad day for the Republican party looks like?

Congressional Democrats have a 47% approval rating.

Republicans have a 24%.

So there you go.

http://www.pollingreport.com/cong_rep.htm

http://www.pollingreport.com/cong_dem.htm