Here’s the short version: I made a site called Filibusted that just won Sunlight Labs’ “Apps for America” contest.
I started to write out the long version, but I don’t have Ken Burns or a bunch of old-timey photographs. I’ll split the difference.
The Soapbox
As some of you already know, yelling at Congress (or at coverage of Congress) …
It’s so bizarre that we were convicted at all and it’s even more bizarre that we were [convicted] as a team. The court said we were organised. I can’t get Gottfrid out of bed in the morning. If you’re going to convict us, convict us of disorganised crime.
This is the scoring the House Republicans have provided, tracking Democratic budget policy and theirs over the next 70 years. As you can see, predicting ideological stances over as yet unborn Democratic members of Congress, the GOP scoring appears to have us on track for the government owning about 90% of the economy in the early-mid-22nd century, which if I remember is about the time period of the invention of the warp drive. So I don’t know if they’ve figured that in too.
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