The fiscal cliff

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't usually laugh when I read Politico, but these poll results that they released today cracked me up.

Overall, 85 percent of the surveyed American voters had an unfavorable opinion of Congress, while just nine percent viewed it favorably.

I. THINGS THAT AMERICANS LIKE BETTER THAN CONGRESS:

• Root canals (56 percent of surveyed American voters preferred the painful procedure to Congress, which only got 32 percent of the vote)
• NFL replacement refs (56–29)
• Head lice (67-19)
• Nickelback (39-32)
• Colonoscopies (58-31)
• Washington DC political pundits (37-34)
• Traffic jams (56-34)
• Cockroaches (45-43)
• Donald Trump (44-42)
• Genghis Khan (41-37)


II. THINGS THAT AMERICANS LIKE EVEN LESS THAN THEY DO CONGRESS:

• The Kardashians (49 percent preferred Congress to the popular family which only managed to grasp 36 percent)
• Fidel Castro (54-32)
• Communism (57-23)
• North Korea (61-26)
• Ebola virus (53-25)
• Lindsay Lohan (45-41)
• John Edwards (45-29)
• Playground bullies (43-38)
• Gonorrhea (53-28)

The poll was conducted from Jan 3-6, surveying 830 voters. It has a margin of error of +/-3.4 percentage points.