John Hawkins over at Right Wing News gives us a little taste of what might be going on in the Senate regarding the immigration bill - and helps provide a little snapshot of why the approval rating for Congress is... %14.

Speaking of that, isn't it interesting that leaders of the institution nearly on the *bottom* of the list regarding who the American people trust and respect are calling the leaders of one of the highest-rated institutions... incompetent?

What I find more surprising, if gratifying, is that the American public feels that way about our military despite the way the war has been covered, as well as the military's "own goals" in terms of Abu Ghraib, etc.

It does show just how out of touch many of the elites in the nation are, doesn't it?

Of course, the elites would respond... "The American people are just too stupid to be left to handle their own affairs... a feeling in fact rather widely held amongst many of the Nanny-Staters, both Left *and* Right.