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Wendy,

It couldn't work as you desire. The reason is that one person's "bad" decision is anothers "great" decision. When the country is split 48-48-4 (the 4 being the tiny number of us in the middle who think both sides are trainwrecks) any site "rating" the decisions made would find it impossible not to lean to one side or the other. And as soon as they leaned 1 inch either way, all of their rankings would be discredited by the opposition. I assure you if you rated all of them, Andrew and Ray (sorry guys.. nothing personal... you're just the two most outspoken advocates for your party in these discussions) would see those ratings in opposite ways. That's our fundamental problem right now in the US and I don't know what the solution is because it works so well to keep BOTH parties in serious power, even on an off year for either.

A perfect example of this BS was the insanely stupid diatribe by Nancy Pelosi not only playing maximum partisan politics, but also by making sure none of her buddies voted FOR it either. She's complaining about Republicans not taking 50% of the blame for this bill when she only needed 10 out of 86 Democrats who voted against it to vote yes, and when more than that number were her own personal cronies/friends. I don't care what you think of Pelosi's performance as a Representative, but as a leader she gets a ZERO. I suspect Pelosi supporters feel differently. And that sort of expedient blindness is why both parties get away with this crap and apparently always will going forward.

Brian