Even I could do better?

I love this poll!

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 45% of likely U.S. voters now think 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.

And why wouldn’t it work? If no one knew who their reps would be in advance and they were “term limited” for say one or two years, I see great promise in the idea.  You might have to use a two-thirds majority rule instead of 51 percent, but the idea is solid for its simplicity.

Owing no favors to political parties, not interested in reelection and presumably most having worked in the real world, they would be motivated to get stuff done.  They would mostly behave, knowing they soon would be back at their real job and they wouldn’t want to screw anything up for fear of embarrassing themselves, their town or their family.  To special interest groups they would be mostly unknown and lobbyists would hold little sway over them.

Makes you think.

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