As George W. Bush ables towards the end of his Social Security privatization tour, the American people still aren't ready to buy his plans and an increasing amount disapprove of his presidency. CBS News' Joel Roberts has the story:

President Bush doesn’t fare very well in the latest CBS News poll with an approval rating of just 44 percent and still limp support for his proposed Social Security overhaul.

But at least he's doing better than Congress, which earns a thumbs-up from only 35 percent of Americans – nearly as low a rating as it received last month immediately after lawmakers' unpopular intervention in the Terri Schiavo case.

Approval ratings for Congress have historically been low but they're now at one of their lowest points since the late 1990s. Disapproval of the Republican-controlled Congress even extends to 39 percent of Republicans, along with 59 percent of Democrats.

Parsing through the numbers on the Republican Congress, some interesting details emerge.

Asked to name the thing Congress has done over the past year that sticks out most in their minds, the highest number, 9 percent, said the Schiavo decision; 3 percent mentioned actions surrounding the Iraq war; 4 percent said Congress had accomplished nothing; while 68 percent could not name anything it had done.

In some respects, this is bad news, in others it is good. The Democrats surely want the country to understand some of the awful legislation forwarded by the Republican Congress -- the Bankruptcy bill comes to mind -- so this poll shows that they have a long way to go to educate the American people.

On the other hand, the fact that most Americans have no idea what Congress is doing -- and the few who do can only recall the Terri Schiavo case -- presents the Democrats with the distict possibility of lampooning the "do-nothing Republican Congress" (a la Harry Truman). Should the Republican Congress fail on a budget this year (as they did last year), the Democrats will have that much more ammo to sling at the GOP.