New and improved Putz: now incoherent, partisan AND inaccurate!

In his latest attempt to show how much America hates Democrats, Putz devotes an entire lengthy post to proving this by cherry picking congressional poll numbers.

CONGRESS'S APPROVAL RATE: Still lower than Bush's. And disapproval is higher.

I think there's an overall loss of faith in America's political class, which seems to me to be largely warranted.

Putz again omits the fact that he's only citing one poll, and quickly concedes the point.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Dems will be touting this AP poll, which shows Congress at a sky-high forty percent approval! But I don't think that undercuts my thesis. When approval is well below 50% -- and, as Surber notes, disapproval is 57% -- we're talking about a slightly lower level of public contempt, not actual approval.

While Bush's numbers have been in the 30s for almost two years -- historically low for a second term president -- Putz blamed the media. And as the GOP-controlled congress hovered in the 20s for the better part of two years and was in the teens (in October 2006, one poll had them at 16%!), Putz blissfully ignored them.

But now he latches on to a single poll, a poll by the way which shows that the Democrats are doing better than Republicans were doing, and claims that "public contempt" is deserved. The Influence Peddler, however, correctly notes that these numbers are "absolutely the norm." But Putz doesn't seem to understand his own link, because he adds,

Yes, as I say there's a long-running problem with America's political class, that's being obscured by today's partisan bitchfest.

Huh? Now it's a "long-running problem"? Anyone see "long-running" above? Either these recent polls are historically anomalous and therefore indicate a sudden "loss of faith" in politics or they do not. As Detached Observer finds, congressional approval has been below 50% for the better part of forty years. And Putz engages in shrill partisan attacks on a daily basis like this misleading post, so is he admitting that he's part of the problem?

The facts are these: the Democrats have been in control of congress for 4 months after the GOP held it for 6 years. Congressional approval has gone up across the board in those 4 months.

How this is somehow supposed to reflect badly on Democrats is anyone's guess.