Republicans Suggest Backlash Against Baseball If Soros Group Wins Bid To Buy Nationals

Drudge Report ^ | June 27, 2005 09:51:22 ET | Matt Drudge

[USAfearsnobody]

Despite the Washington Nationals' successful start to the season, to some Capitol Hill Republicans there is a dark cloud on the Nats' horizon: the potential that their newly adopted home team could be purchased by billionaire financier George Soros!

Soros has joined an ownership bid being led by entrepreneur Jonathan Ledecky that is angling to take over the Nats, who are currently owned by Major League Baseball.

ROLL CALL reports: Soros pumped more than $20 million in the last cycle into groups seeking to unseat President Bush and elect Democrats and relates that the very prospect that Soros could have a stake in the team is enough to irritate Congressional Republicans.

"I think Major League Baseball understands the stakes," said Government Reform Chairman Tom Davis (R), who recently convened high-profile steroid hearings.

Davis said that if a Soros sale went through, "I don't think it's the Nats that get hurt. I think it's Major League Baseball that gets hurt.

They enjoy all sorts of exemptions' from anti-trust laws. Rep. John Sweeney (R-N.Y.), vice chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that covers the District of Columbia budget, said if Soros buys the team and seeks public funding for a new stadium or anything else, the GOP attitude would be, "Let him pay for it."

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[USAfearsnobody]

"Let him pay for it"--Couldn't have said it better myself.

Now to get him out of the WTC Memorial...

[Loyalist]

Baseball will finally have an owner who's more obnoxious and despised than George Steinbrenner.

How buying the Nationals fits into Soros' plans for the New World Order escapes me, however.

[Right_at_RiceU]

I say let him spend his money on a baseball team. At least he'll be spending it on something homegrown American rather than some democRat campaign.

[USAfearsnobody]

Home Run plan to assassinate Bush with a baseball blow to the head.

[Txsleuth]

If Soros buys it---betcha the POTUS would not be asked to throw out the first pitch...Mrs. Bubba would, or even Mr. Bubba........blech...

I would rather watch the kiddos on the White House lawn like they were yesterday!!!

[Preachin']

This is nonsense.

It didn't kill MLB that Ted Turner owned the Braves, and there's little difference between the two.

[Lazamataz]

Republicans Suggest Backlash Against Baseball If Soros Group Wins Bid To Buy Nationals

Oh yeah. The SCOTUS is unilaterally dismantling the Bill of Rights, but the Republicans fear we might backlash against baseball.

I don't recognize that party any more.

[Zeroisanumber]

Petty.

[rabidralph]

Yes, it would be a dilemma: the DC mayor would demolish the bath houses in order to build the stadium, which would offend Soros' base.

[USAfearsnobody]

Problem is that he has pleeeently of money. He's going to spend the same amount on a 'Rat's-ass campaign whether or not his insurgency occupies part of baseball.

That's the sad thing. He's spreading his octopus arms around everything he can grab.

And there's no doubt, since he is a good business man, that he'll receive more money from the states and from the public to finance his communist causes even more.

[Willie Green]

Baseball will finally have an owner who's more obnoxious and despised than George Steinbrenner.

???

What happened???

Did the Devil Rays finally dump Vince Naimoli?

[USAfearsnobody]

It'll help finance his communist causes?

[TheOtherOne]

It didn't kill MLB that Ted Turner owned the Braves, and there's little difference between the two.

Or that Bush owned the Rangers. This is a silly waste of time. Also, no public money should be spent on a stadium no matter who owns the team.

[SaltyJoe]

"How buying the Nationals fits into Soros' plans for the New World Order escapes me, however."

He couldn't take the White House, so he'll spoil a Presidential legacy . That Bush had owned a team, Soros will own all of them, and take a giant squat on America's favorite past time.

It's a demonic tactic. Satan tries the same thing against God's Chosen and the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and all Christians in general. If the devil can't take the altar, he'll try to spoil the Sacrifice.

[AbeKrieger]

I just want to see Soros wearing a RED hat with a big white W on it.

[Redleg Duke]

Wasn't there a novel written back in the 60s about some wealthy guy who owned the Yankees and left them to the USSR when he died because he was pissed at the US Government. Somehow, I think the name of the novel was "A Pennant for the Kremlin".

[Preachin']

"It'll help finance his communist causes?"

When one can spend $20Mil to help defeat a candidate, he doesn't seem to really need money to support communist causes.

[popdonnelly]

I'm a believer in free enterprise, but I'm beginning to think that great wealth carries with it great stupidity. There are too many examples of men who had one great idea in their life, and took it as proof they were experts on everything. At least Soros won't be the only jerk to own a baseball team.

[Not A Snowbird]

I didn't like the Nationals anyway. Now I may have a good reason.

[BuckeyeOhio]

I am a member of the United Church of Christ. While our church is a United Church of Christ, under their system, each church is separate from the rulings and may do whatever they wish.

My church is very conservative and we don't follow a lot of the "rulings" of the governing body and we are allowed to do that by the constitution of the United Church of Christ.