Given the name of this blog, you can guess this is no surprise to me.  But a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% of Americans would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again.  Just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current elected officials.

These numbers haven’t changed since last October when Congress was passing the unpopular $700-billion bailout plan, but as you can imagine there has been a partisan shift since the election.  The number of Democrats who like the current Congress has grown from 25% last fall to 43% today, whereas last fall most Democrats were ready to replace the entire Congress.

The health care debate may be a key reason for this continued negative attitude toward Congress.  Only 22% of those surveyed think Congress has a good understanding of the issue, and 74% trust their own economic judgment more than Congress.  Which isn’t surprising given that Congress continues to drive the country deeper in debt with no sign of turning it around anytime soon.

Even more troubling, just 14% rate Congress as good or excellent in their overall performance, and only 16% believe it’s very likely that Congress will address the most important problems facing our nation.

Story at Rasmussen Reports