Photo by: James Morrison
See that there? That's an absent Congress, right before the war in Iraq, actually. There's one guy there, talking to himself about how much it stinks that his fellow Congressmen/women aren't there to have a legit debate on the upcoming war.
Though it doesn't seem like he's scoring high in the esteem of his peers, this guy would kick major congressional ass at fantasycongress.com!
And isn't that what matters?
The name of the game is simple, technically: much like fantasy football, you get to draft congressmen/women to your "team" and compete against people in your "league." You're scored by how many bills, of what import, and how far those bills make it through the House and the Senate.
The whole while, you're ditching lazy congressmen/women who have poor attendance records and votes you disagree with and draft better legislators once you've built up some "political capital."
Honestly, the best part about the game is that it really involves you in finding out how your congresspeople are doing. There's a facet of the website that lets you look in at the actions of all the Congress so you're constantly in the know about what's happening in the 2nd branch of the government.
Leave it to Americans to make politics into an actual sport, but whatever, participation is participation.
Anybody want to start a TTTM league?
3 comments:
I'm so in.
I could think of some other scoring methods, too: Attendance, number of votes (or number of abstentions!), number of floor speeches, number of trips back to his/her district, number of times name-checked by Chuck Schumer, number of appearances on Meet the Press, whether or not he/she drives a Prius....
I was waiting for a punchline along the lines of, "Fantasy Congress is not just fantasy, folks. It's called 'democracy.'"
I'm in.
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