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  • Windbags get their own draft (new "Fantasy Congress" website)

    11/18/2006 10:34:12 AM PST · by calcowgirl · 8 replies · 384+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | November 18, 2006 | Steve Wiegand
    You have probably never thought of Congress as fun. Feckless maybe. Foolish, feeble, flatulent, festering, maybe even felonious. But not fun. Fortunately, this gap in your thinking on the federal legislative branch can now be bridged through the wonky inventiveness of some students at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California. The bridge is called Fantasy Congress, and it can be found at www.fantasycongress.us. The site does not involve fantasies wherein all congressional members are competent. Nor does it involve images of, say, Doris Matsui in a bikini. Instead, it's akin to those fantasy sports leagues, where otherwise sensible people form...
  • Senate Coverage -- (November - December '06)

    11/13/2006 12:09:41 PM PST · by Mo1 · 270 replies · 2,580+ views
    THOMAS ^ | November - December '06
    Since "Free Republic is an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America.", I and others think it's a good idea to centralize what the goes on in the Senate (or House). So if you see something happening on the Senate/House floor and you don't want to start a new thread to ask if anyone else just heard what you heard, you can leave a short note on who said what and about...
  • In The FRee Reubblic Fantasy Congress, A Resolution....

    10/02/2002 8:32:43 AM PDT · by bert · 11 replies · 215+ views
    Free Republic Fantasy Congress | 10/02/02 | bert
    Draft Resolution for comments by the forum  In  the Free Republic Congress, October 2, 2002 Where as Congressman James McDermott (?? District Washington) did visit the nation of Iraq in time of war with the United States Of America and did state in a television interview from the enemy capital of Baghdad that the President of the United States Of America would mislead the American People and is attempting to provoke a war,   “I think the president would mislead the American people”  Whereas  Congressman Schakowsky  (?? District Illinois) in time of war  defended the repugnant remarks delivered by Congressman...