Rating our Representatives

Today I found a list of perhaps more "traditional" conservative Congressional ratings. http://www.acuratings.org/ It is not near as Constitutionally accurate as, for instance, the Freedom Index, nor is it updated as often, but it gives a much better feel for how Congressmen and Senators are perceived by the majority of the right.

It is interesting noting the similarities and differences. The two indexes in some cases have the same approximent placings, just not by the same proportions. For instance, this American Conservative Union (ACU) system places our SC junior Senator, Jim DeMint, at 98.0 overall (first place in the Senate!) while the Freedom Index places him at 90 overall (second place).

A sharp difference may be seen, however, in the treatments of people such as Lindsey "Grahamnesty" Graham, with an ACU rating of 90.6 overall but a Freedom Index rating of 56 overall.

Rep. Bob Inglis has shown a dramatic shift towards constitutional positions after Dr. Cobin ran against him in 2006. He went from around a 30 at election time to an 80 in the latest Freedom Index! However, he will go from an 84 in the ACU ratings to what will presumably be lower when they update it for 2007. This is good though! Keep it up, Mr. Inglis!

If you want to compliment him for the improvement, you can email him at bob@inglisforcongress.com. I would wait until after the next Freedom Index comes out in a month or so though, just to be sure, and so it's not old news (i.e. back from July) :-).

DeMint has done an excellent job too as a Senator, much better than he did as Congressman I believe. He has spearheaded the fight against the Law of the Sea Treaty, and played an important role in defeating the amnesty last year. He has also been a great advocate for free trade and pro-life causes. Kudos to Jim DeMint, too!!!

The one man who made 100% on both rating systems is Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. Wow. For the overall rating, however, he still ranked lower than DeMint in the ACU.


From Jos