Congress' job approval in the new Gallup poll ties an all-time low of 18%. Lydia Saad writes in her analysis:

Americans' ratings of Congress are almost always lower than their ratings of the sitting president. With Bush in a period of extremely low approval, and both houses of Congress controlled by the Democratic Party, one might expect that gap to be closer today. And, in fact, it was for a short period after the Democrats first returned to power in Congress at the start of 2007. However, that honeymoon quickly ended (about last August) and since then, Congress has lagged behind the president in approval.

Here's the accompanying graph:

Put simply, Americans are pretty darn sour on the way things are going and they're taking it out on the folks in Washington DC.