Truly Pathetic

If you've noticed lately, Democrats have not been hooting and hollering about how low President Bush's approval ratings are. This certainly is not due to a sudden surge in the polls by the President. Far from it. While his numbers have been consistently low, they seemed to have dipped a little lower. With the situation in Iraq not exactly going stellar (and not that the media would report it if it were otherwise), Bush decided, in his infinite wisdom, to piss off the people that have stood by him and defended him on the War on Terror, and specifically the war in Iraq, by insinuating that we are nothing but a bunch of "nativist" (i.e. racist) hicks who don't want what is best for the country because we don't believe him and the political cronies in Washington when they claim that they will do anything even remotely resembling border enforcement prior to enacting the amnesty parts of the immigration legislation. But I digress.
No, the real reason that the Democrats don't talk about Bush's approval numbers is because theirs are worse. After riding a post election high of 43% approval, Congress has now dipped to 23%. This happens to be 6% lower than the president's. No longer can they blame everything on the president. To date, the only promise they have made good on is a boost in the minimum wage (and need I remind you that Clinton and Obama voted against that). They promised to clean up Congress, and we have recently seen the indictment of William Jefferson. They promised to shine light on the earmarks process, and they have made it even more secretive, changing the process to allow earmarks to be added during the closed door, committee sessions to hammer out compromises to bills. One of their candidates for President even dodged the issue of whether he would vow to end the earmarks to his home state. They can't even pass a non-binding resolution on Iraq. Their Senate majority leader has proven to be as hapless as he is a bumbling public speaker, to the point that many of their supporters have expressed their outrage at his recent public statements. The most memorable moment for their much lauded first female speaker of the house was when she practiced some of her ill advised diplomacy, visiting Syria, taking it upon herself to be the emissary of the Israelis (without their approval and bumbling it, to boot), ridiculously claiming that the road to peace was through Damascus. About as ridiculous a statement as Chamberlain returning from Munich proclaiming "peace in our time."
All they seem to be able to do is issue subpoena after subpoena for Justice Department officials who, at the end of the day, tell them absolutely nothing. When they find no evidence of wrongdoing after grilling these people, instead of giving up their wild goose chase, they claim that a lack of evidence is, in fact, further evidence of a much greater conspiracy. For all their hot air about what an evil puppet master Karl Rove is, they have yet to charge him with anything. And as truly inept as Gonzalez is, they can't seem to touch him. Truly pathetic.