Thursday Eveing News & Links
Jun 21st 2007RavenPolitics & Raven
I’ve been doing these daily link-a-thon posts at ARS and received much positive feedback about it…so tonight I’m going to do this here at FP for a change of pace.
Consider the latest Gallup Poll, which finds only 14 percent of the American people have “a great deal of” confidence in Congress or “quite a lot,” compared to 19 percent a year ago. That is the lowest confidence rating Gallup has ever recorded for Congress since the survey firm began measuring public opinion on major American institutions in 1973.
We should be concerned with this. When the people no longer trust their elected representatives, are we asking for a different form of government? Will people stand back and allow the leaders to continue not leading?
Captain Ed opines:
It’s a dangerous development. Congress is, after all, the people’s branch of the government. The judiciary has no accountability to the people, and the states elect the President, at least formally. Congress writes laws, determines tax policy, and in general dictates the direction of our representative government. If we cannot trust ourselves with that power, eventually the people will turn to another, less representative form of government to get the difficult issues addressed.
No Comments »
