Pirate's Cove

Will the MSM trumpet this from the rooftops, like they do any little dip in Bush’s approval rating? (h/t Say Anything)

Americans give both President Bush and the Congress failing marks on their handling of immigration, according to a new UPI/Zogby poll on the topic.

The Zogby Interactive poll of 8,300 adults nationwide finds just 3% of Americans viewing Congress’s handling of the immigration issue in favorable terms, while 9% say the same of the President-even as respondents in the survey rated it the second most important issue facing the country, after the war in Iraq.

I suspect that Trent Lott will consider this intimidation, which he is just not going to take from those American citizens, dagnabit!

Meanwhile and far away (sorry, listening to some Moody Blues)

(USA Today) Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress. 

This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973.  The previous low point for Congress was 18% at several points in the period of time 1991 to 1994.

Hey! Stop intimidating those Senators!