Regarding Broken Mirrors at Capitol Hill.

Obviously miffed that the democrat-controlled congress continues to have a significantly lower approval rating than Chimpy McBushitler, Senator "Chucky Doll" Schumer searches high and low for a scapegoat:

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday blamed the Republican minority for sinking congressional approval ratings, calling recent poll results "a referendum on Republican obstructionism." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) blamed President Bush.

Schumer told reporters that Republicans - who earlier this week blocked a Democratic amendment that would have mandated a troop withdrawal from Iraq, and who in June blocked a comprehensive immigration reform bill - are frustrating Americans who are hungry for change.

A Zogby telephone poll released Thursday showed approval of Congress "continues to plummet" and now sits at just 14 percent. Eighty-three percent of respondents gave Congress negative marks. The polling organization credited the low numbers to the "acrimonious scrimmage over immigration reform" in June.

Not to be one to ever be considered unhelpful when it comes to contributing to a healthy round of GOP-bashing, Senator Harry Reid (D-National Morticians Union) had this to add:

Reid echoed Schumer's frustration with Republicans but was also quick to blame Bush.

"When you have a president who is so unpopular ... it really reflects poorly on Congress," Reid said. "None of them [congressional approval ratings] are real high and we acknowledge that, but most of it relates to the unpopularity of the president."

Err... Mortician..err.. Senator Reid, if all your low approval ratings are because of the "unpopularity of the president," then how do you explain this?

Bush's job approval ratings in Zogby polls have been in the low and mid-30s since October 2006. This week it stood at 34 percent.

And before you go saying, "Well--the republican congress was worse!" think again:

The current congressional rating is eight points lower today than it was for the Republican-controlled Congress just one week before Republicans lost control of both houses of Congress in the November 2006 elections.

Chucky Schumer, being the good socialist that he is, believes in spreading the misery equally:

Schumer said that while overall congressional approval ratings are low, he believes Republicans are worse off than Democrats in public opinion. "They're not spreading the blame equally," he said of the American people.

Questions for Sens. Schumer and Reid: Wasn't that one of your great democrat stalwarts, Harry S. Truman, who once said, "The buck stops here!"?

Yes, in another lifetime, in a world far, far away, perhaps.

What all this denial and fingerpointing says to me, is that all the mirrors in democrat Capitol Hill offices must certainly be broken.

Or perhaps, like Dorian Gray, who never dared gaze upon his true decaying countenance in his portrait, Sens. Schumer and Reid are merely afraid of what they may find should they per chance venture a glance.

After all, it is much easier to criticize while looking out a window than while looking in a mirror, isn't it?