More of the "Professional Left" :-) not impressed with Obama and the Democratic Congress accomplishments:

Only 32 percent of those citing no allegiance to either major party say they want Democrats to keep control of Congress in this November's elections, according to combined results of recent Associated Press-GfK polls.
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Independents voice especially strong concerns about the economy, with 9 in 10 calling it a top problem and no other issue coming close, the analysis of the AP-GfK polls shows.
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Ominously for Democrats, independents trust Republicans more on the economy by a modest but telling 42 percent to 36 percent. link

Enter the fourth branch: our guardian, our sentry, our free, independent, and unfettered Press.

It took 200 years for our leaders, having exhausted every nook, cranny, and vestibule that could be defiled and corrupted, to eradicate our final defense. Having succeeded in morphing journalism into stenography, its no wonder Gibbs, Obama, et al are so frustrated with these new upstarts, the Blogs, after having pulled off the greatest flim-flam in our history.....Obama's nomination & election.

It's like being a rockstar, only moreso.

So, when some of these same people stop being sycophants and say "hey, you screwed up" or have an angry edge to their voice, it's really disconcerting to the conresscritter.  It's not that they don't have people angry at them all the time, but they usually have staff to get in between and shunt the ugly off to the side.  And, FWIW, the angry folks are usually never contributors or supporters or friends of long-standing.

It feels nice to have people bend to suck your backside all day every day and it's really disconcerting when those people stop and tell you it's not ice cream.

As to the Dem legislative accomplishments they are all so proud of, that they cannot understand why we're underwhelmed (at best), it's a similar problem.  They think they've accomplished something because the sycophants in their bubble and the President and the press have told them it's an accomplishment and it's great and it's a real triumph.  Since they don't read what they are passing before voting and don't understand it if they do read it (because they know how to get elected but almost surely don't know what a synthetic credit default swap is, let alone how it works), and are in league with the industries they are legislating to regulate if they do understand it, it's not surprising they think they've accomplished something great.  It's like someone who plans a great building on paper and maybe draws it out, without any understanding of how buildings work or how soil supports foundations or anything like that.  They could plan anything, but try to build it and it's likely to never get out of the ground.  Or, to fracture another analogy, it's like a war plan.  "Every plan is great until it first hits reality/the first shot is fired" appliesto legislation, too.  And the industries regulated have spent no small amount of effort and time getting things set up the way most profitable to them, regardless of what they've told the critters doing the actual voting.

The biggest clue that I have seen as to exactly how clueless the people in Washington are is watching the Real Housewives of D.C. It's odd that a TV show would give such insight to that whole crowd but it does.

This to me is just another variation of "you have nowhere to go" and Obama just checking off things off a check list.

It is a point of frustration to Democrats that much of the public seems unimpressed by the litany of legislation signed into law in the first two years of President Obama's term[.]