chatroulette for Congress

One of the problems with Government is that Congresspeople spend most of their time far from their home district/state and therefore don't often meet with their constituents. One fairly easy solution to this is to create a chatroulette-style system for communicating between a Congressperson and his/her constituents. It would not be exactly like chatroulette, but would use some of the same ideas. Here 's a first pass at how it could work:

The Congressperson would sit in front of a computer with webcam (or better), launch a web browser, and log into the 'Chat With Congress" web site and create a 'meeting'. Constituents use their laptops and webcams to log into that Congressperson's Chat meeting. The Congressperson would click the 'Start The Meeting' button and a Constituent would be randomly chosen from among those logged into the meeting. Each person logged into the meeting would see the webcam feeds of the Congressperson and the currently chosen constituent. The constituent would ask his/her question and the Congressperson would answer it. Once the question has been answered the Congressperson would click the 'Next Question' button, which would result in another constituent's webcam feed to be randomly chosen and displayed in the web browsers. The Congressperson could also hit the 'Next Question' button if the chosen constituent was a crackpot or abusive or asked a question that was already answered. When the meeting is done the Congressperson would click the 'Meeting Done' button.

Pretty Simple. The person who created chatroulette wrote all the code for it in just a couple of days. It would probably only take that amount of time to create something like I describe above. For all I know, you can easily do something like this with Google Wave.