Grade the government

How would you grade your representative?

At GradeGov.com, you can rate your representatives on an A-F grading scale and send them a comment telling them why they earned the grade they did.

Registration to the Web site is required to participate in the grading process, so I'm not sure whether this means you'll be on an e-mail list.

My local representative, Democrat Bill Nelson, has earned a failing grade and 107 pages of comments. Among them (the initials in parenthesis indicate the commenters' political affiliation):

Seahawk (IND), FL writes
I gave you a grade of F. I was a supporter of yours when you first went to Washington. That has changed over the past several years as you have drifted away from the principles of American Freedom in Health care, welfare,...

Savage170 (IND), FL writes
I gave you a grade of F. From the recent e-mail i have received from you you still don't get it and what the citzens of florida are telling you. Maybe you get it when your unemployed come 2012

Bdjam (REP), FL writes
I gave you a grade of F. Please hold town hall meetings to cover the health care, cap & tax and the deficit issues. We need to know where you stand and have our questions and concerns answered. I will give you no grade above...

Mollyc (DEM), FL writes
I GAVE YOU A GRADE OF F. WHY DID YOU VOTE TO RAISE THE DEBT OF EVERY AMERICAN ANOTHER $6,000 PER PERSON BY RAISING THE DEBT CEILING TO 14,300,000,000,000? YOU ARE PUTTING MORE AND MORE DEBT ON OUR GRANDKIDS.