Congress: Not The People’s Choice

Has there even been a time when the United States Congress ranked lower with the American public or when dysfunction more profoundly gripped the institution? Hardly. University of Tennessee historian Daniel Feller says we need to go all the way back to before the Civil War to find a Congress quite so much at war with itself as today’s bunch. Feller is among a group of historians that NPR surveyed to determine if the current Congress is just bad or among the worst in the nation’s history. Historically bad is, according to the historian, the correct answer/ Marc Johnson , The Johnson Report. More here.

Idaho Blog roundup:

• Freedom at Christmas for our blind dog, Cocoa /Dennis Mansfield
• Newt now nixes notes /Fort Boise
• Remembering a congressional campaign /Debbie Holmes, 43rd State Blues
• Politics, ‘inequality’ and becoming an adult /Austin Hill, Idaho Conservative Blogger
• Manning/Peterson: Two of service /Chris Carlson, Carlson Chronicles

Question: Do you have a low view of Congress, too?