Oh, no! The approval rating is down to 29%. Disapproval, 64%.

That's for Congress. Bush is hovering at 33%, where Congress was hanging alongside him last month. To be fair, Congress's average for last year -- per Gallup -- was 25%. People just don't like Congress too much. We're not crazy about the President either but -- again, to be fair to Congress -- it looks as though we're chronically down on the whole institution, whereas with the President, sometimes he's popular. So when the President is unpopular, we mainly don't like what he's doing. But when Congress is unpopular, it's mainly because it's Congress. Sometimes a few of us forget and think wow, Congress, and the number might get up to something like the 37% peak Congress hit this year when Congress was strutting around blabbing about its "mandate," but then, some time passes, and we're back to eh, Congress.