{"id":1027765,"date":"2023-10-19T15:16:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1027765"},"modified":"2023-10-19T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:16:03","slug":"icymi-washington-post-americans-see-the-house-speaker-mess-as-hurting-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-washington-post-americans-see-the-house-speaker-mess-as-hurting-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Washington Post: Americans See the House Speaker Mess as Hurting the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-7.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1027766\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point: <\/strong>\u201cPresumably, thanks to a less cynical view of Congress, YouGov\u2019s new polling for the Economist indicates most Americans \u2014 including most Democrats and Republicans \u2014 think the lack of a speaker is hurting the ability of the government to function. \u2026 YouGov\u2019s results indicate that Republicans in Congress are viewed particularly poorly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/10\/18\/american-concerns-house-speaker-vote\/\"><strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Americans see the House speaker mess as hurting the country<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Philip Bump<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>But there is an obvious way in which the lack of a speaker is negatively impacting governance: The House is spending a lot of time figuring out who should have this particularly thankless job instead of passing bills that aren\u2019t considered in the Senate.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Presumably, thanks to a less cynical view of Congress, YouGov\u2019s new polling for the Economist indicates most Americans \u2014 including most Democrats and Republicans \u2014 think the lack of a speaker is hurting the ability of the government to function<\/strong>. (Some fraction of each party thinks the lack of speaker is helping; that might be the most cynical view possible.)<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>While Republicans, including McCarthy, have tried (and continue to try) to frame the lack of leadership as a function of Democratic ineptitude, YouGov\u2019s results indicate that Republicans in Congress are viewed particularly poorly, even by the low standard at which Congress is generally viewed.<\/strong> Four in 10 Americans view congressional Democrats at least somewhat favorably; only a third view Republicans in Congress that way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nine in 10 Democrats view their own party\u2019s congressional delegation favorably. Only two-thirds of Republicans view theirs so generously.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A plurality of Americans (including both Democrats and independents) view compromise as a better alternative.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>That was before the House began voting on the nomination of Jordan, though. And with those votes under our belts, we can safely say that \u2026 yeah, the country\u2019s skepticism about this thing being resolved quickly seems warranted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cPresumably, thanks to a less cynical view of Congress, YouGov\u2019s new polling for the Economist indicates most Americans \u2014 including most Democrats and Republicans \u2014 think the lack of a speaker is hurting the ability of the government to function. \u2026 YouGov\u2019s results indicate that Republicans in Congress are viewed particularly poorly.\u201d Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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