Oh, Congress. Just 15 percent of Americans approve of Congress and a whopping 81 percent disapprove of the way they are handling the job, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday. But things aren’t quite as bleak as those numbers seem: unbelievably, it’s up from Congress’s all-time low approval rating of just 10 percent from February to August 2012. It’s also a point up from January. Democrats fared slightly better than Republicans, with 19 percent approval, as opposed to Republicans, who mustered just 12 percent—which is a huge leap from its dismal 6 percent approval rating in January. Maybe the sun will come out after all for Congress after a long and lonely winter. Of course, there’s always the looming sequester drama …
