Three out of four Americans have no confidence in President Bush, but his approval ratings have been dragging well below 50% for such a long time nobody bats an eye at those figures. A Gallup poll indicates that Americans have finally had it with the houses of congress as well. Amazingly, the President's rating is _twice_ that of Congress, which scores an abysmal 12% confidence rating. Confidence ratings are different from approval ratings (where Congress scores a similarly poor 19%). Likely factors contributing to the low confidence in Congress include the economy, foreign policy and their basic failure to deliver on the platform upon which they were elected - seemingly to curtail the war on terror and to stand up to the President.