Dear Congress:

The president's approval rating is 31%.  His administration has repeatedly lied to the American people, ignored and denied global warming, overseen the increase of the price of a barrel of oil from $20 at the end of 2001 to $117 today, encouraged an "ownership society" leading to record foreclosures, punted on the problems of medicare and medicaid, led us to preemptive war under false pretenses without a semblance of a plan and even systematically broken international law.  61% of historians are ready to declare this the worst presidency of all time.

You came in with a mandate after the elections of 2006.  The mandate was simple.  Use checks.  Use balances.  Put a stop to this disaster.  Even if you can't get us out of this hole until 2009, at least stop the digging.

But you haven't.  You are spineless.  You have given in to every demand of the White House.  As difficult as it must be for the president to have convinced 31 out of 100 people in this country to approve of the job he is doing, it is apparently even more difficult for you.  Your approval rating is a humiliating (at least I hope it's humiliating) twenty-two percent.  22%!  The worst president of all time can find nearly 50% more Americans who approve of the job he is doing than you can.

You are a disgrace to the very concept of representative democracy.  Tighten up.

Sincerely,
The Tighten Up Report