Posted on 02/14/2008 7:56:54 AM PST by shortstop
I trust baseball more than I trust Congress.
And as soon as Congress gets done investigating baseball, I hope baseball returns the favor.
A bunch of burly men with Louisville Sluggers turned loose in the halls of Congress might be just what this country needs.
But what this country doesn’t need is a committee of blowhard political pukes meddling in baseball. Our country is falling apart and these morons are on national TV worried about a game.
This is disgusting.
As soon as they figure out how to get a hearing on Britney Spears, they’ll haul her in.
What’s most disgusting is the sanctimonious air of these congressmen. It’s as if they’re defending American dignity, or investigating some terrible crime against humanity.
Of all the problems facing our country that Congress ought to do something about, this isn’t one of them.
In fact, I’ve scoured the Constitution and I can’t seem to find the part that empowers the Congress – or any branch of the federal government – to regulate sports. Looking after sports cheating is not one of the enumerated powers.
In fact, it’s none of the business of government whatsoever. Professional sports are private businesses and the rules of sports are private matters. If someone violates the rules of a professional sport, then that private business will have to deal with them according to their rules and regulations.
If the conduct rises to a violation of law, we have a system that handles that. If it is a state law, the local cops and prosecutors will handle it. If it is a federal law, federal agents and the United States attorney will handle it. Nowhere in the apprehension or prosecution of lawbreakers does the Congress have a role.
And yet there those self-important toads are, hoping the “Inside Edition” generation thinks that grilling a pitcher and an ankle taper makes them relevant.
When it does just the opposite.
It’s like Rome falling and the Senate second-guessing the circus.
In fact, it’s exactly like that.
Because while the Congress was worried about DNA on a needle, the country was going to hell in a handbag.
For example: Suicidal national debt; trade deficit that guts our economy and enriches our enemies; refusal to drill for oil or build a refinery while our economy runs on somebody else’s oil; meaningless southern border; horrific social consequences of ignored illegal immigration; runaway welfare dependence; a weak and overstretched military; suffocating rates of regulation and taxation; “economic-stimulus package” that hurts more than it helps; Social Security and Medicaid entitlements that will bankrupt our country; a house-of-cards stock market; worthless currency; and it goes on and on.
There are legitimate issues the Congress should address, things that relate directly to our national interest and even survival. Our country is in as precarious a position as it has been since the British burned Washington, and yet our government does nothing but throw fuel on the flames.
And as a diversion, they’re playing baseball commissioner.
Well, thanks, but no thanks.
I’ll take baseball and its warts and corruptions over Congress and its any day. Baseball at least functions the way it’s supposed to.
Pretty soon, there will be spring training. After that, opening day. In about the middle of the summer there will be the All Star game. The ceremonies associated with it will begin with a homerun derby. In October they will hold the World Series.
Three strikes will be an out, the team with the most runs at the end of the game will be declared the winner, corked bats will still be illegal.
Baseball is reliable.
And even when its players cheat, they do so to do their jobs better – to improve their game.
No member of Congress can say that. No member of Congress can say that the federal government works anywhere near as well as baseball. And if you look at the public-approval ratings, people like baseball more than they do Congress.
One of their own drives drunk or takes money from crooks or tries to pick up sex in the men’s room, and do they hold hearings?
Do they look at their own failings the way they do at others’?
Absolutely not.
They sit up there in self-righteous judgment, some of the most incompetent and inconsequential people in society, condemning others and meddling in things that are patently none of their business.
They ought to read the Constitution sometime, and leave the baseball rule book to the commissioner.
I trust baseball more than I trust Congress.
Just this once, I’d let them use aluminum bats and unlimited designated hitters!
Congress ... not so much.
I would like to have someone tell me what business is it of congress to investigate baseball except to sit up there and pontificate and preen in front of camera’s? In my mind, they are just proving how they think they are so important we could not do without them.
If only ping!
I want Bud Selig to have hearing on budget abuse by Congress.
Congress routinely strikes out - that is, gets caught looking on a down the middle fast ball on a 2/2 count.
I’d like to get some well trained Thai folk to give a few in Congress a good 10 licks with some caning.
Republicans don’t love our kids if yesterday’s performance was any indication. Not impressed with the partisanship displayed.
Sitting around on their duffs while firing questions at a baseball player about steroids is an example of why our democratic republic is in dire trouble.
I don't care if Clemens has needles hanging from his entire body, it's ridiculous to have these morons spending time on something as picayune as this.
More of their time should be spent in their home states growing tomatoes or shoveling snow. They certainly have no expertise when it comes to listening to constituents.
These weasels work overtime proving that they're not needed.
Congress sticks it’s nose into a private organization’s business. It’s only going to get worse.
Look on the bright side. Every day that congresscritters are lock stepped focused on the MLB steroid mafia is a day they aren’t working at eroding our Constitutional freedoms. I’ll take that kind of relief anytime I can get it.
Can I donate to the cause?
TERM LIMITS, will help cut this B.S. that congress is doing.......
By the way excellent post.
My favorite part :)
Democrats in Action
Lets have some teams where doping is mandatory. A superbowl dopers vrs. drugfree
You sure surely can donate....place your votes wisely. ;)
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