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October 31, 2006

Nothing in Government is Fantastic but the Budgets

Now that baseball season is over, those of you who are fans of tedious procedure with intermittent action might want to consider starting up a new fantasy league at . . . Fantasy Congress. This website allows you to pick a team of Congressman every weekend, who earn points by pushing legislation through the Federal sausage-maker.

This seems to have a bias against small government types who would be averse to introducing more laws, or whose laws would propose shrinking government and therefore be less likely to progress.

Here's a rundown of the top scorers in each house.

Top Ten	Senators	Representatives
1	John Warner (R-VA)	Don Young (R-AK)
2	Pete Domenici (R-NM)	James Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
3	James Inhofe(R-OK)	Jerry Lewis (R-CA)
4	Rick Santorum (R-PA)	Tom Davis (R-VA)
5	Chuck Grassley (R-IA)	John Boehner (R-OH)
6	Dick Lugar (R-IN)	Richard Pombo (R-CA)
7	John McCain (R-AZ)	Chris Smith (R-NJ)
8	Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)	Duncan Hunter (R-CA)
9	Bill Frist (R-TN)	Rob Andrews (D-NJ)
10	Ken Salazar (D-CO)	Bob Ney (R-OH)

(via Fort Wayne Observed)

Posted by Zach Wendling at October 31, 2006 06:22 AM

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I thought this could be a lot of fun in a nerdy kind of way.

But I was wholly unsatisfied with the "draft" function which allows all the first people in a league to cherry pick the best "players" and leave all stragglers to pick up the leftovers.

Posted by: george at October 31, 2006 05:27 PM | permalink

October 31, 2006

Nothing in Government is Fantastic but the Budgets

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