How To Improve Congress?

It's been a truism for a long time that people think Congress is doing a lousy job. But who do we think could do better than the people we currently have up there? According to Rasmussen, 41% think a random group of people selected from the phone book would do a better job.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/may_2010/41_say_random_selection_from_phone_book_would_do_a_better_job_than_current_congress

Tuesday's primaries were more proof of the anti-incumbency mood felt in many parts of the nation, and a new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that many voters continue to feel a randomly selected sample of people from the phone book could do a better job than their elected representatives in Congress.

The latest national telephone survey of Likely Voters finds that 41% say a group of people selected at random from the phone book would do a better job addressing the nation’s problems than the current Congress. Almost as many (38%) disagree, however, and another 20% are undecided.

You know, that's an idea. Here's my proposal...


I am a computer programmer by trade. I can write a fairly simple program that will randomly select names from the phone book for this coming election! I will do this for free, just so we can see how this new method works.

The Constitution says that the states must select their Congressmen... but it doesn't say HOW. If the Legislature were to act in a special session, we could have this method up and running for the fall elections. (grin) Man, would all the incumbents be MAD!

But it's worth a try... Lord knows we couldn't do much worse with a random group than we're doing with these bozos currently in office. And it eliminates the problems of campaign finance reform... no campaigns to finance! It saves the state a bunch of money that is currently being spent on elections.

Hey, this idea actually has a lot of advantages to it!

What do YOU think?