dreamy ...

Wouldn't it be great if, just one election cycle, the one-person-one-vote idea was enlarged to mean that you (as a valid, of-age voter) had one vote to spend on a candidate of your choice? Which is to say, you wouldn't be constrained to the representatives in your state -- instead, you could vote to remove from power any representative or senator from anywhere in the country.

Would you choose Door Number One: Ted Stevens (R-AK), he of the bluster, the bombast, the Bridge to Nowhere?

Or perhaps Door Number Two: Rick Santorum (R-PA), who brought his dead baby home from the hospital and forced his live children to meet it?

Don't choose yet! Consider Door Number Three, behind which stands Tom "Death Penality for Abortionists" Coburn (R-OK). His disappearance would free up a seat on the oh-so-important Senate Judiciary Committee.

Would you throw your vote where it might do the most good, in a tight swing state race like Daschle's was last cycle, or would you not be able to stop yourself from gleefully contributing to the demise of a high-profile target like Delay?

If New Yorkers all followed your lead and forced the smug Texan to go back to killing bugs for a living, what would happen to Hilary? Would other Americans pick up the slack? If not, and Hilary were ignominiously boosted, would it still be worth it? And wouldn't it be funny if, a la The Apprentice, all ejected congressfolk had to share a Cab of Shame home from the capitol?

Suggested slogan: Why choose the lesser of two evils when there're so many truly fantastic evils to choose from nationwide?