Congressional Republicans are this unpopular

How unpopular do you have to be for people to reject your efforts to give them money?

WASHINGTON, April 30 — The Senate Republican plan to mail $100 checks to voters to ease the burden of high gasoline prices is eliciting more scorn than gratitude from the very people it was intended to help.

Aides for several Republican senators reported a surge of calls and e-mail messages from constituents ridiculing the rebate as a paltry and transparent effort to pander to voters before the midterm elections in November....

Angry constituents have asked, "Do you think we are prostitutes? Do you think you can buy us?" said another Republican senator's aide, who was granted anonymity to openly discuss the feedback because the senator had supported the plan.

If you really get down into this stunt, the logic is just bad. In response to record oil company profits, the Republican solution is to reimburse the public(through debt) with government money to cover the costs of the record profits by these private companies.

Another genius political move by Bill Frist. I wonder if he diagnosed the solution while looking at an Exxon supplied videotape.