US Public OVERWHELMINGLY Wants FBI to Investigate Congress

The way Jay Leno's jokes about Congressional "privileges" during his recent monologues should have been a clue. The audience laughed uproariously when he chided Congress for claiming to be "above the laws they inflict on the rest of the country.

Although smarmy professional Bush-bashers among the legal beagles like Jonathon Turley, the local mediot-whore at GW Law School, claim "separation of powers," that claim is risible, ridiculous, and outright scandalous when it intends to cover up criminal activity.

An ABC Poll just out has the American public opinion numbers thusly:

86 percent say the FBI should be allowed to search a Congress member's office if it has a warrant.

That view is broadly bipartisan, this ABC News poll finds, ranging from 78 percent among Democrats to 94 percent of Republicans.

Bravo for the US I grew up in! As Congress tries to weaken the Executive through subpoena power and the Judiciary weakens both Congress and the Executive through arbitrary "constitutional" diktats, at least the public knows that federal powers are oozing back and forth all over the place.

Peggy Noonan has her usual rational take on the large and growing alienation, ala the French political elites, between the mandarinate in DC [Bush, McCain, Kennedy on immigration amnesty, e.g.] and the hard-working taxpayer who finance their frivolity. Latest polls, though often worded by the MSM to get the desired "centrist" result, show a large majority for a Fence like the one Israel has to keep out undesirables.

Anyhow, the comment on the poll by the ABC piece goes on:

this poll finds broad public skepticism about congressional ethics: Sixty-five percent of Americans give a negative rating to the ethics and honesty of members of Congress. More, 54 percent, rate their own member's ethics positively, but that's down from 69 percent in a 1989 poll.

Even given the gerrymandered lock-boxes that most CDistricts have become, this bodes ill for incumbents this Fall, and it looks like neither party has a monopoly on bad apples in this mudslinging contest [excuse metaphors].