of…Fantasy Congress? Yes indeed you heard me right my friends,
Fantasy Congress, where you pick and trade your members of Congress in
order to maximize your team. I know the curiosity is boiling, here's
how you play:
Each team is divided into 5 sections, Allstars (Senior Reps),
Supporting (Median Reps), Rookies (Junior Reps), Upper Senators
(Senators with seniority than more than half of the Senate) and Lower
Senators (Senators with less years than half the Senate). Statistics
are accumulated for four different sections for every member of your
team, Legislation, Cosponsor, Maverick and News. Legislative success
gets you points, such as taking action to move bills, the more
important the legislation the better. Voting and attendance will be
taken soon (so says the site). We always love those members who says,
"Stick it!" to partisan politics and goes with their gut, the Maverick
Score is for them. News of course is pretty self explanatory.
There are three actions you can take, benching, trading, and a
pick-up (picking up a Congressman from the Free Agent Pool or Waiver
Pool). It's pretty simple overall, I've picked a team for fun,
started a league and just let things run its course checking in every
once and a while.
My sample team which has done pretty good:
Hillary Clinton (D)--Lower Senator
John Kerry (D)--Upper Senator
Chris Smith (R)-Allstar
Harry Reid (D)--Upper Senator
David Wu (D)--Supporting Lineup
Mike Enzi (R)--Lower Senator
Ron Paul (R)--Supporting Lineup
Raul Grijalva (D)--Rookie
John Conyers (D)--Allstar
Phil English (R)--Supporting Lineup
Mike Simpson (R)--Supporting Lineup
Jason Altmire (D)--Rookie
John Boehner (R)--Allstar
Judy Biggert (R)--Supporting Lineup
Dennis Hastert (R)--Allstar
Melissa Bean (D)--Rookie
Paul Gillmor (R)--Allstar
Tim Murphy (R)--Rookie
Check out all the madness today at www.fantasycongress.com
1 comment:
Did you pick these at random? Hastert is retiring, may even leave early to designate a heir apparent and as a demoted backbencher don't look for him to do much but try to insert pork into bills for his buddies before he goes.
Biggert has always been a non entity as a "moderate" in the rightwing dominated Republican caucus. Nominally pro choice and stem call research she votes with Bush 93% of the time. Most of what's on her agenda isn't going to be on the House agenda in the forseeable future. Her one signature bill which she co-sponsored with Louise Slaughter, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act passed overwhelmingly in the House 420-3, but is now on hold in the Senate by Tom Coburn (R-OK). Slaughter has been pushing this bill for a dozen years. I even got an email from her last week asking supporters to call
Senators and ask them to pass it.
Biggert's my rep and as far as I know she hasn't even called Coburn to ask what his problem is let alone send out emails to her constituents asking them to put pressure on.
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