Have You Ever Wondered Why People Run for Congress?

News Release: “According to an April 10-13, 2006, Gallup Poll, 23% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, while 70% disapprove. The current approval score is slightly below the 25%-27% range seen since January. The current 23% approval rating for Congress is a near-record low for the institution. Gallup's trend for this question, which started in 1974, shows lower approval scores on only three other occasions: October 1994 (21%), March 1992 (18%), and June 1979 (19%).”

News Release: “Americans do not see one party as more corrupt than the other. An overwhelming majority of respondents - 73 percent - agreed with the statement that "politicians of both parties in Washington today are corrupt."

I can’t speak for others, but if I were a member of Congress and saw these polls, I would be too ashamed to show my face in public. Yet our Congressmen seem to have no shame at all. How come? Doesn’t it make you wonder why they run for office?

If they claim that they want to serve their country, they are obviously failing. The country doesn’t need Congressmen who are failures at their jobs.

It appears to me that there are only two possible answers to the question. Either they know that they are such incompetent idiots that they could not hold down any real job, not even one requiring mere manual labor, or else they are in Congress to line their own pockets, fully knowing that they do not have to be concerned with being ousted from office, because they have fudged the electoral system to make that almost impossible. And even if by some unlikely change one is defeated, he knows he will be replaced by someone else just like him, because only corrupt incompetents.