democratic controlled there. they re back to their lows of where they think what kind of change the republicans have brought. majority in our polling shows that they don t think they brought any change. so is the president trying to assign blame because he knows it s easy for the public to see that blame. they already don t like congress in general. they usually don t. this is generally how we re going after congress. here are the numbers again. i hope we can show the screen here again. bush administration blamed by the public. after 2 1/2 years of obama still 26% blame bush and his team. 25% blame wall street. 11% blame the congress. i would presume that means both parties in congress. but only 1 in 12, 8%, blame the president. i would argue that this poll staggers me. the fact that the public doesn t that surprise you? it s the most glaring number of that kind i ve seen in any of these polls. by now the conventional wisdom would have said and had said, this president owns the e
where they were doing the health care debate even when it was all democratic controlled there. they re back to their lows of where they think what kind of change the republicans have brought. majority in our polling shows that they don t think they brought any change. so is the president trying to assign blame because he knows it s easy for the public to see that blame. they already don t like congress in general. they usually don t. this is generally how we re going after congress. here are the numbers again. i hope we can show the screen here again. bush administration blamed by the public. after 2 1/2 years of obama still 26% blame bush and his team. 25% blame wall street. 11% blame the congress. i would presume that means both parties in congress. but only 1 in 12, 8%, blame the president. i would argue that this poll staggers me. the fact that the public doesn t that surprise you? it s the most glaring number of that kind i ve seen in any of these polls. by now the conventio
that they don t think they brought any change. so is the president trying to assign blame because he knows it s easy for the public to see that blame. they already don t like congress in general. they usually don t. this is generally how we re going after congress. here are the numbers again. i hope we can show the screen here again. bush administration blamed by the public. after 2 1/2 years of obama still 26% blame bush and his team. 25% blame wall street. 11% blame the congress. i would presume that means both parties in congress. but only 1 in 12, 8%, blame the president. i would argue that this poll staggers me. the fact that the public doesn t that surprise you? it s the most glaring number of that kind i ve seen in any of these polls. by now the conventional wisdom would have said and had said, this president owns the economy. that s what romney thinks. but it doesn t seem to be so. it really doesn t seem to be so. okay. this is where the wind may
molly: steve, thank you very much. we appreciate it. kelly? kelly: congress heading home for the holidays, choosing to deal with major issues like immigration, health care and disaster relief funding when it returns next month. but there s still the threat of a shutdown as a temporary spending bill will only fund the government through mid january. i think that january 19th is going to look a lot different than december 21st did. passing tax reform took up a whole lot of oxygen in the room, and i don t think we were able to get the deal that we wanted. i m hopeful that we passed it, we can get on and have a good long-term solution, and daca may be part of that process. kelly: ellison barber joins us live from washington. ellison? reporter: to to-do list is often long, and punting issues is not new for congress in general, but this congress left up to for the holidays, and they really a didn t do themselves any favors for january. they passed a stopgap measure to keep the government
has dragged everyone down. it s dragged down democrats, it s dragged down republicans. it s dragged down the entire institution. and it s caused well meaning, otherwise previously well meaning republicans to drift farther to the right in order to avoid primary challenges, encourages extremist candidates to get in and supports them. it has created a whole bunch of unintended consequences. anticipate now you have this record low approval rating. it s something that s going to be very hard to rebuild. and that s something that should really worry a lot of leaders on both sides of the aisle. but e.j., there is a way forward. the president said, this do-nothing gop congress has left americans with no option but to vote them out of office in the midterm election. his quote was, we re on the right side of every single issue and the majority of the american people agree with us on every single issue. but we ve got to make sure those folks get out to vote.