Here is a real shock:  People do not trust Congress.

New Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all time low

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.

Congress is now nestled at the bottom of the list of Gallup’s annual Confidence in Institutions rankings, along with HMOs.  Just 15% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in HMOs.  (By way of contrast, 69% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the military, which tops the list.  More on this at galluppoll.com on Thursday). 

Well I at least am grateful the Military is still polling well.

I heard this on the radio and couldn’t stop laughing.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/20/radio-report/

REPORT: The Right Wing Domination Of Talk Radio And How To End It

The Center for American Progress and Free Press today released the first-of-its-kind statistical analysis of the political make-up of talk radio in the United States. It confirms that talk radio, one of the most widely used media formats in America, is dominated almost exclusively by conservatives.

The new report — entitled “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio” — raises serious questions about whether the companies licensed to broadcast over the public radio airwaves are serving the listening needs of all Americans.

While progressive talk is making inroads on commercial stations, right-wing talk reigns supreme on America’s airwaves. Some key findings:

– In the spring of 2007, of the 257 news/talk stations owned by the top five commercial station owners, 91 percent of the total weekday talk radio programming was conservative, and only 9 percent was progressive.

We’re Number 2! We’re Number 2!  We’re Number 2!

China overtakes U.S. as top polluter 

China has overtaken the United States as the top emitter of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, because of surging energy use amid an economic boom, a Dutch government-funded agency said on Wednesday.

Other experts have estimated that China will only surpass the United States in coming years. The rise to number one emitter may put pressure on Beijing to do more to help a UN-led fight against global warming.

“China’s 2006 carbon dioxide emissions surpassed those of the United States by 8 per cent,” the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency said in a statement. In 2005, it said China’s emissions were 2 per cent below those of the United States.

This comes as yet another blow to Al Gore’s lie-fest movie, where he was heard to gravely pronounce that China is “on the cutting edge of environmentalism”…yea, they figure out how to pollute way better then us.  Now that’s cutting edge.

But don’t worry alarmists…it is still not only our fault as a nation, but our responsibility to fox it.  Why?