A new poll shows that while President Obama's approval rating remains at 48% (47% disapprove), just 17% approve of the job Congress is doing. (source) Considering that Democrats have overwhelming majorities in both the House and Senate, President Obama is the leader of the Democratic Party and Congress has spent the last year pushing the president's far-left agenda to the exclusion of almost all other government business; why the disconnect between the approval ratings?

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It could be that the personal likeability of Barack Obama has gained a few approval points that President Obama does not deserve. But when you look at the main reason those polled gave to describe their feelings about Congress, a sadder truth is revealed. Thirty-seven percent of those polled said members of Congress are "only interested in staying in office." This is obviously the response of Americans who are not paying attention and are simply parroting the old cynical lines of the past. They have heard enough to know the current government is not working for them but not enough to know that it's so much more than politics as usual.

If their political futures were current legislators' primary concern, so many of them would not be following dutifully behind President Obama and his hugely unpopular policy proposals toward the edge of a political cliff. They would accept that the majority of voters, while wanting reasonable changes to the country's health care system and some improvements on environmental issues, do not want big government, job-killing, liberty-devouring programs like Obamacare and cap & trade.

Perhaps as the last few days of the Obamacare marathon play out, even the most determined-to-remain-uninformed citizens won't be able to avoid the realization that while Democrats in Congress are happily doing his dirty work, it is President Obama who is using them as the instrument to force his leftist ideology on the country and they all deserve the same political fate.