For those of you who love a good mystery, but aren’t ready to wade back into the “Who killed JonBenet Ramsey?” pool, now that we know John Mark Karr didn’t do it, here’s something that might be more interesting.Conservative and liberal bloggers are pooling their efforts in order to identify, by process of elimination, the identity of the senator, or senators, who have placed an anonymous hold on a bill that would create a searchable public database of all government contracts.
TPM has the best tally so far, in which the original pool of 100 senators has been whittled down to 42 remaining candidates (at last check.) All I can say is the last man or woman standing is going to look like quite the coward, and will undoubtedly be forced to field a question or two about what he or she has to hide!
In fact, that senator might be wise to abandon his or her political party to run as an independent, or call someone “macaca,” just to change the subject!
I don’t know who it’s going to be, but if I get the first draft pick in my annual Political Pork Fantasy League, I’m going with Ted “Series of Tubes, formerly known as the Bridge to Nowhere Man” Stevens!
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ReplyDeleteYeah - that's me alright!
Damn it I was going to take Stevens!
ReplyDeleteI always get screwed on my top draft picks.
OK I'll take Lott. At least I know he'll chop off a finger to remain in the game.
It's a little disturbing to see all of those "Ds" on the list. But you know I can't pass-up a pool! I'm gonna draft the most senior D, and the reigning King of Pork; the Honorable Senator from West Virginia, Robert C. Byrd.
ReplyDeleteIt's now down to 25 candidates. Stevens and Byrd are still in the running. Lott says he's not the guy.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to go ahead and name my next pick: Jim Bunning. His baseball career may have preceded the rise of fantasy leagues, but he's still in demand for his senatorial stupidity!
Damn it Lott is out.
ReplyDeleteI always mess up my top draft pick. He was a can't miss. Kind of like Robert Gallery.
With his second pick Left-Over selects - Orrin Hatch R from Utah.
Mel Kieper is really high on him.
Ooooh, good choice; Hatch is a major weasel! I almost took him in the first round.
ReplyDeleteDon't feel bad; I understand that Jeff George was once a #1 draft pick...
Looks like they're down to 11. Stevens, Hatch, and my man Byrd are all still in it! The suspense is killing me...
ReplyDeleteAnd then there were 8:
ReplyDeleteBond, Christopher S.- (R - MO)
Byrd, Robert C.- (D - WV)
Carper, Thomas R.- (D - DE)*
Crapo, Mike- (R - ID)
Gregg, Judd- (R - NH)
Hatch, Orrin G.- (R - UT)
Sarbanes, Paul S.- (D - MD)
Stevens, Ted- (R - AK)
Stevens, Byrd and Hatch are all off our board.
So I'll play Mel Kiper for a moment:
The asterisk by Carper means he was an original sponsor of the bill - which makes him unlikely, or particularly slimy if he is the guy!
Sarbanes is a retiring Democrat and co-sponsor of "anti-Enron" legislation, so I would tend to rule him out too. Wish he'd make it official.
Bond is a notorious dumbass, so I wouldn't count him out.
And Crapo has the stupidest name left on the board - he's a project.
Judd Gregg - I don't know anything about him, but he just sounds like an offensive lineman - he's probably a blocking specialist!
Now they're down to 6; my guy Byrd and 5 Repubs, including your guys Stevens and Hatch. Hatch's fellow Utite Roberts (who for some reason wasn't one of the final 8; What? Did he change his mind?), Gregg, and the mellifluously-named Senator Crapo round-out the field. I'll join Seenos in a little Kiperesque analysis and note that the Crapmeister has pointedly refused to answer the question of whether or not he's the guy...
ReplyDeleteOops, the other esteemed Senator from Utah is Bennett, not Roberts. Those WASP names all look alike to me... I mean WASM names (White Anglo Saxon Mormon).
ReplyDeleteFYI - several other sites are already reporting that the culprit is the tubeman. It seems that Stevens is still smarting over bill author Coburn's trashing of his "Bridge to Nowhere!"
ReplyDeleteDang; you always finish in the money, Seenos. Are you coming back to the CRMBL this season?
ReplyDeleteHey, I just read on DailyKos that there is a second hold on the "Pork Transparency" bill, and that it's my Main Man, the King of Pork himself, Senator Robert C. Byrd! Seenos, looks like we're splitting the pot after all.
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