CONGRESS TOO ACTIVE?

Congress is getting only a 12% approval rating and an 80% disapproval rating. The media assumes that this means that the electorate feels congress should do something.  But I don't know, maybe it means that the electorate feels that congress is doing too much!*

Consider:  The speaker of the House says that congress should not be judged by how many laws it makes but how many it repeals.  The electorate keeps electing and reelecting the do nothings that would indicate they don't want congress to do anything.  They say insanity is to do the same thing over and over expecting different results.  Is the electorate insane?

A lot of the news media and some conservatives say that the Republicans should propose an alternative to Obamacare.  But Obamacare is already a conservative medical law.  Every liberal knows that we should have a single payer health system to control medical costs, for example.  It was a conservative proposal to go to the individual mandate.  The alternative to Obamamcare really is to do nothing and to just let the previous system ride with more and more people shut out of health insurance because it has become prohibitively expensive.  This is not to say that Obamacare cannot be improved.  After all it is a huge and cumbersome law.  Some improvements have already been made, but I doubt that single payer is in the cards.

* Also see The Government You Voted For: http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-government-you-voted-for.html