September 17, 2007 (LPAC)--What's a member of Congress to do when he or she keeps getting bombarded at town meetings by the same angry constituency calling for impeachment? Author David Nather of CQ Politics, September 17, understood the pain of Rep. Joe Sestak during his mid-August town hall meeting in a Philadelphia suburb, where questioners would not get off that impeachment issue, and demanded to know what Congress was going to do about it.

Nather writes that members of Congress can now turn to telephone town halls, where thousands of constituents can be listening in at the same time and politicians can control who gets to speak and about which issues. Poly Sci wonks are debating the usefulness of the telephone town hall, but even Rep. Joe Sestak is not convinced. "I don't feel it's the same. I like the fact that I'm getting out to a place where people can come and see me."