Tribune editorial: How low can Congress go?

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, right, meets with Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, July 11, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) How else to explain the hyper-partisan gridlock that has dominated Captiol Hill for some time now? And the stunning heights of hypocrisy exemplifed by, in only one of the more outrageous examples, Sen. Orrin Hatch’s revolving sense of the Senate’s duty to vet nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The totally unsurprising result is laid out in the RealClearPolitics average of public opinion polls. It puts the public approval of Congress these days at 15.5 percent. Individual polls put the approval of the federal legislative branch as…