The Founding Fathers expected elected legislators to remain closest to the sovereign people in both interests and affection. Those great men got many things right, but boy did they get that one wrong.
“Suppose you were an idiot,” literary legend Mark Twain once wrote. “And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
Nonetheless, according to a Gallup poll conducted Feb. 3-16, those beleaguered legislators may thank President Donald Trump for a 70 percent increase in their approval rating since Jan. 17, three days before the president’s inauguration.
Of course, one need not break out the champagne flutes just yet. After all, that approval rating could hardly have fallen much lower.
On Jan. 17, Gallup showed Congress with a 17 percent approval rating. In the latest poll, that number jumped to 29 percent.
