what should senators do to make c-span more entertaining?

[Devra]

I say their speaking order should be determined by a game of musical chairs

[RedCloud]

1. Have food fights and then eat the mess up!

[underpants]

2. Turtleneck Tuesdays

Don't laugh it could be HUGE!!!

[Neil Lisst]

3. Remove all cordiality ... and their pants!

Just call each other names, and do it in your boxers!

[Devra]

29. only if they never leave their desks

[no name no slogan]

4. Full Frontal Fillibusters

[Tyrone Slothrop]

5. I think they should duel

Swords, pistols, cannons -- whatever.

A little violence would get the proles to start following politics again.

[Devra]

18. isn't that what Zell Miller wanted?

[jane_pippin]

6. Every time one of them says "my distinguished colleague" they all have to

do a shot of hard liquor. If it's someone from one party saying it to a member of the other, then they do a shot and pound a beer. Independents are wild cards--they can make their own rules on who takes a shot and/or beer.

[Deja Q]

8. Dang, I was hopin' for another "drop trou" reference.

Then we'd see how distinguished they truly are...

[jane_pippin]

21. I think after a few rounds of this, your request will take care of itself.

[Deja Q]

7. So far, it seems the "nudity" category is winning. But if I may interject,

do we really want to see just how little these buoyant self-obsessed egomaniacs are?

Little or, um, altered...

[Devra]

14. agreed

there are some things I don't want to see and a nude senate is one of them.

[enigami]

9. Commit suicide on camera

:shrug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. You know, a lesser statesman did that...and it didn't go over so

well.

[enigami]

15. Dang

I miss all the good stuff

[Allenberg]

10. Mandatory three martini lunches.

[RevCheesehead]

11. Have Jon Stewart interpret what they're really saying.

Or Stephen Colbert. :)

edit/ Oh, wait, that's The Daily Show, isn't it? What I'm thinking is to put a little interpreter's box in the corner of the screen - like those doing ASL for the deaf.

[Devra]

16. now that would be fun

[UrbScotty]

13. "I ask unanimous consent that the Senate be in Beer Bong...

"...for the remainder of the day."

"Without objection."

[Initech]

17. Full Contact Fillibustering

Complete with serious injuries!

[MrScorpio]

19. Puppet shows

Speeches made by puppets using the Senators' voices

[Beware the Beast Man]

20. Fights to the death.

[LynneSin]

22. SPIN THE BOTTLE

Always a crowd pleaser especially if we can see Rick Santorum suck face with Bill Frist!

[Devra]

28. that would be the hight of amusement

[mikelgb]

23. Redesign the Senate Floor to look like this:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. Ditch the Heritage Foundation coverage...

Yesterday they had some whiny damn booger promoting yet another bullshit book. :boring:

[Sanity Claws]

25. Their speeches should be done in pantomine

It'd be like charades. The senators would have to gesture and people in the audience would have to guess what they were saying.

[hfojvt]

26. more bench clearing brawls

like the good old days (okay this was in the House)

"At 2 AM, tension rose when Congressman Lawrence M. Keitt of SC protested that Galusha A. Crow, a Pennsylvania Republican, spoke from the Democratic side of the House. Grow insisted that he had the right to speak from any place on the floor he liked, and that no "ni%%er driver" could "crack his lash" at Grow. Keitt assaulted the Republican, who fought back. Other congressmen joined in until it became difficult to distinguish the combatants from those trying to restrain them. In the brawl, Congressman Elihu B. Washburne of Illinois knocked off Mississippian William Barksdale's wig. When the southerner replaced it backwards, the fight dissolved into gales of laughter."

[Love Bug]

27. "Now on C-SPAN2: MST3000 interprets the Senate Hearing on ____"

[ThingsGottaChange]

30. MST3K would be great!

But,only if it's Joel!