As a general rule, I agree. The less Congress has to do with just about anything, the better. However, the good thing about general rules is that there are always exceptions.
There is an important difference between this case and the baseball hearings. In the latter, there is no great public outcry and grass-roots efforts the get Congress to "fix" the problem. It's merely a typical opportunistic face-time-grabbing publicity stunt to give themselves a little media exposure.
With regards to the Terri Schiavo issue, however, Congressional involvement is being driven by genuine, massive public pressure from their constituents. No doubt many of them will still try to milk all the self-serving publicity they can from it, but they would not be acting at all on this one were it not for the incredible grass-roots pressure. When considered from this perspective, the Congress, especially the members of the House of Representatives, is fulling its Contitutionally mandated duty to represent their constituents.
There is? Well, thanks for setting me straight on that.
DUH.
I think you missed my point: ANY TIME the Congress gets involved it is guaran-damn-teed to be a three ring circus with people rushing for face time.