13 american heroes

The American Conservative Union (ACU) just released its annual ratings of Congress. According to the ACU website (http://conservative.org/archive2/ratingssummary06.asp):

As the premier conservative rating listed in all major political almanacs and reference guides, ACU's "Rating" is often quoted by the media and is extensively used by political strategists and candidates running for public office.
As the umbrella grassroots lobbying group of the Conservative Movement, ACU tracks a wide variety of issues before Congress, ranging from taxes to spending and national security to abortion. Accordingly, our ratings encompass three general categories: (1) economic and budget matters; (2) social and cultural issues, and (3) defense and foreign policy. ACU endeavors to analyze votes from each category in order to obtain a balanced, comprehensive picture of an individual member's ideological predisposition based upon recorded records.
Each member of the House and Senate is rated on a scale of 0 to 100.
The purpose of the "Rating" is to inform the public, in as unbiased a method as possible, exactly where individual Senators and Members of the House stand on the ideological spectrum from liberal to conservative.

The entire ratings report is available at www.acuratings.org., and is based on the 2nd Session of the 109th Congress (2006). There were 5 Senators who scored a perfect 100%:

Tom Coburn (R-OK), lifetime rating of 98% for 8 years
Jim DeMint (R-SC), lifetime rating of 98% for 8 years
John Ensign (R-NV), lifetime rating of 94% for 12 years
James Inhofe (R-OK), lifetime rating of 98% for 20 years
John Thune (R-SD), lifetime rating of 87% for 8 years

There were 8 Representatives who scored a perfect 100%:

Jeff Flake (R-AZ), lifetime rating of 94% for 6 years
Trent Franks (R-AZ), lifetime rating of 98% for 4 years
Scott Garrett (R-NJ), lifetime rating of 100% for 4 years
Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), lifetime rating of 97% for 4 years
Steve King (R-IA), lifetime rating of 97% for 4 years
Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), lifetime rating of 94% for 4 years
Mike Pence (R-IN), lifetime rating of 100% for 6 years
John Shadegg (R-AZ), lifetime rating of 98% for 12 years

By the way, Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) scored 92% for 2006, and has a lifetime rating of 97% for 8 years. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) scored 88% for 2006, and has a lifetime rating of 92% for 26 years. Both are GOP candidates for President in 2008. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) scored 65% for 2006, and has a lifetime rating of 82% for 24 years. No wonder Sen. McNuts hid under his bed at the CPAC convention!