Confirmed: This is the worst Congress ever

Though millions of Americans received Christmas gifts Wednesday, none got the one thing just about everybody wanted. No, not a new iPhone: A new Congress.

Two-thirds of Americans in a CNN poll released Thursday said the current Congress was the worst one in their lifetimes. And it wasn't just one party or demographic who felt that way.

"That sentiment exists among all demographic and political subgroups. Men, women, rich, poor, young, old — all think this year's Congress has been the worst they can remember," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.

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Three cheers for bipartisanship!

Meanwhile, three-fourths of respondents said lawmakers had "done nothing to address the country's problems" through the first year of the 113th Congress. That gets at what's primarily to blame for Congress' horrible image: Lawmakers didn't do much of anything this year, and the few things they did do were spectacularly infuriating. Heck, one of Congress' most notable actions was failing to pass a bill to fund the government and, as a result, shuttering Washington for two weeks.

It's not just a skewed, subjective view of congressional inaction either. The 113th Congress is statistically on track to be one of the least productive in history.

The 113th Congress passed only 66 laws in its first year, according to GovTrack. That was the lowest tally in four decades, or as far back as GovTrack has reliable data. Worse, only 58 of those bills became law, and many of them did nothing more than name post offices.

Meanwhile, many enormously popular bills fizzled. Nine in ten Americans supported tougher background checks for gun purchases, though Congress spiked gun control legislation. Two-thirds of Americans supported the Senate's bipartisan immigration bill, but the House refused to take it up this year.

So yes, people aren't too thrilled with how Congress has been functioning, a sentiment that's been made clear throughout the year. Polls have found Congress less popular than dog turds and cockroaches, and in November, Congress' approval rating fell to an all-time low of nine percent, according to Gallup.

Don't count on that trend turning around any time soon either. Sure, Congress just passed a bipartisan budget agreement before fleeing Washington for the holidays, but that compromise was relatively tiny, and there are other major showdowns looming, including yet another one over the debt ceiling. Oh, and 2014 is a midterm election year, which should make lawmakers even more tepid toward major action.

In other words, the 113th Congress is already one of the most unpopular and least-productive in history, and it's probably only going to get worse.