Congress Takes a Break From The World's Real Problems To Spank Baseball

Lord knows according to the democrats both in congress and the ones running for president the country is in the saddest shape it's ever been in along with the rest of the world presumably since America plays nursemaid to the rest of the planet. So we're in sad shape they are in more dire straits than we.

So what better to do with their time and our money than hold a bunch of useless dog and pony like hearings again to police a bunch of overpaid lying and cheating millionaires playing kids games for a living yet are compelled to cheat and lie worse than the children around the country that hold them in such high esteem . In many cases that adulation seems to have been misdirected to mere mortal men with mere mortal drug problems that deserve less attention than they already get, not more.We've heard all the lies and deceptions before and now we're going to hear them all yet again as the crooked suits on the one side of the room wag their fingers at the crooked suits on the other side of the room as they all pretend to be doing something that they already promised 10 times in similar gatherings to do before.

Don't hold your breath.

The Three Stooges?
George Mitchell, Donald Fehr and Bud "I See Nuthin'" Selig

Mitchell, Selig, Fehr Head to Congress

My Way News - : "WASHINGTON (AP) - Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and union leader Donald Fehr are going to Capitol Hill today, three years after a theatrical hearing where both men were chastised for what lawmakers called a lax steroids policy.

Selig and Fehr had to share the spotlight with the author of the Mitchell Report, but not with players, unlike on March 17, 2005.

That was the day Mark McGwire repeatedly said, 'I'm not here to talk about the past,' while Rafael Palmeiro pointed his finger for emphasis and told congressmen: 'I have never used steroids, period.' Palmeiro was suspended by baseball later that year after testing positive for a steroid.

Since that hearing, before the same House committee holding Tuesday's session, baseball toughened its drug-testing rules and penalties. But allegations about players' use of performance-enhancing drugs still hound the sport, especially since Roger Clemens was named last month in former Senate majority leader George Mitchell's report on the steroids era."

Mitchell was to testify first Tuesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, appearing alone, followed by Selig and Fehr, side by side. Lawmakers were expected to follow two main lines of questioning: How did baseball's steroids era happen? What can be done now to further strengthen anti-doping efforts?

"The aim is to get the report straight from the horse's mouth, Sen. Mitchell," Rep. Tom Davis, who chaired the panel in 2005 and is now the ranking minority member, said in a telephone interview.

"I don't think this is going to just be the stale same-old, same-old," Davis said. "I can't say anything else. There will be some additional things coming out of this. And, of course, we'll hear from Clemens next month."

Yeah right.

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