Explaining the Senate rules, in basketball terms

[Bluzmann57]

I was talking to a guy earlier today about the Senate and the strange rules that are in place for them to pass some bills, mostly the 60-40 split thing and the filibuster. Here's how I attempted to explain it to him, as we are both sports fans.
Imagine two basketball teams, say team D and team r. Team D has a great point guard who can pass the ball or score almost at will. Team r basically has nothing but they talk a lot of smack. In the first half of the game, Team D and their point guard score and score a lot. In fact, they score 59 points and do so easily. Team r somehow manages to score 41 points and just keep on talking smack. Now the second half is about to begin and Team D finds out that 59 just isn't enough because team r has decided that the smack talk is working and they just keep going on with it and the rules say that a team must have 60 to win. Therefore, 59 just isn't enough. Team D's point guard suddenly has something wrong with him, nobody is real sure what it is, but it seems that he has turned soft and wants team r to have a chance, and not only that, team D has some defections from their ranks. An awful lot of fans are very upset about this because they know that team D is clearly better but the point guard and the defectors just won't change their ways. So team r really seems to be winning, even though they really have done nothing at all to deserve it. So therefore the rules of the game need to be changed so that the superior team wins.
Ok ok, it may be a bit of a lame analogy, but I think the guy understood what I was trying to say.

[Skink]

1. They agree on the spread before each session.

If Bush is in office the dems don't even have to show up.