Someone should rate Senators and Representatives on the quality of their constituent service. When someone writes a Representative for help with a government agency, he or she should get a poll a few months later, asking how receptive and how effective the staff in the Representative's office was with the problem. Consumer Reports rates cars and washing machines. US News and Washington Monthly rate colleges. Some magazine or organization ought to rate Representatives. Imagine a magazine cover splashed with:
"How well does your Representative in Congress serve YOU?
Ratings on all 435! Is yours one of the top-rated, or at the bottom?"
An exchange of comments with dinotrac motivated me to write this up. You can find the comments here:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Some people, even ones who post here, seem timid about asking their Congresscritter for help. Hell, I think that's what we're paying them for. We should dump any complaint we can in their laps.