In a ringing endorsement of our leadership in Congress, RWN's readers found them to be inferior to random people from the phone book by a 6-to-1 margin.

Would you like to replace every member of Congress with a randomly selected person from the phone book of the same political party?

Yes: 86% (616)
No: 14% (104)

You can count me among the people who'd prefer random people from the phone book to our current members of Congress.

Granted, doing that would cost us fine public servants like Jim DeMint and John Shadegg, but for every Demint and Shadegg, there are at least 10 members of Congress who are either corrupt, hopelessly incompetent, or voting little differently than they would if they were trying to deliberately destroy the country.

That's why even random Americans would be a significant improvement over what we have in the Senate today...