Real World: Your Government

I was listening to Fresh Air just a few minutes ago while taking the dog out for a constitutional. Terry Gross was interviewing Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and described the D.C. row house he and some Democratic friends crash in as being something out of The Real World.

Which gave me an idea for the greatest political television show of all time. Place in one house:

• Two U.S. Representatives, one Republican and one Democratic.
• Two U.S. Senators, one Republican and one Democratic.
• A sitting Supreme Court Justice.
• One or two Undersecretaries of something-or-other.
• A high-level Pentagon staffer.
• A U.S. General (at least two stars please).
• Two dark-horse announced Presidential candidates, again one Republican and one Democratic.

Film.

Any recommendations? I think Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-MS) would work well. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) would be another excellent candidate, with his filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and past KKK membership giving him immediate emotional resonance with his cross-party rivals.