Why is Congress having hearings on steroids in baseball?

[NightWatcher]

Why cant they tackle the war, economy, healthcare, privacy rights, or the environment for starters?


And NO, they cant do more than one thing at a time. They have yet to show me anything.

[bif]

1. Baseball comes under their jurisdiction

I think it has to do with it being our national pastime or something.

[MNDemNY]

12. It comes under their jurisdiction because it was set up as a monopoly.

Congress is charged with oversight.

[pocoloco]

2. Short answer.....

No balls or backbone!

[karlrschneider]

4. 535 foul balls

and still no walk.
:shrug:

[AnneD]

13. NO...

all balls no back bone...Remember this is steroids and baseball we are talking about. It make them feel good to vent righteous anger, they look busy, and they get to keep their phoney baloney job, harumph, harumph.

edited to add that the next outrage will be Hollywood stars juicing up-harumph, harumph.

[meow2u3]

16. No balls?

Try screwballs, pal.

[rudy23]

3. This is why we won't impeach--it would tie up important matters like this

Watch what else Congress gets done in '08 thanks to the anti-impeachers.

[EFerrari]

5. Because there is a big payoff in making this go away?

:shrug:

[cboy4]

6. It's good to see Nancy is keeping steroids on the table.

:eyes:

[fenriswolf]

7. heh

I wont be suprised when congress critters start showing up with season passes in skyboxes all over the country. and when they let this baseball thing die down.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

8. Because we have a useless Congress, wasting our tax dollars, and they need to be voted out. nt

But even more importantly, they need to be TOLD by us in e-mail, that we're going to vote their @sses out of there come election times. Someone should research who refused to vote against Bush, but voted in favor of holding these useless, pointless, ridiculous and absurd baseball steroid bullshit hearings.

[JohnnyLib2]

9. Press coverage.

And they got it.

[Dorian Gray]

10. Watching Around the Horn

with my husband tonight, I said the same thing. It's just stupid. Don't they have a country to run? Why waste time on that?

[onenote]

11. because a significant portion of the population cares?

You or I may not care that much, but that a lot of their constituents do.

[Telly Savalas]

17. A significant portion of the population thought giving Bush a second term was a good idea

That doesn't make it wise or prudent though.

I like baseball and would like to see it steroid-free, but I have a hard time swallowing the argument that the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform doesn't have anything better to do than this - especially considering that we've got the most corrupt White House since Harding.

[jeff30997]

14. They're beginning to look pretty pathetic.

What's next? Hearings about Britney ?

[AnneD]

15. Actually...

I heard that there may be some looking into Hollywood's use of steriods....seriously.

[unhappycamper]

18. Because they don't want ot talk about Iraq? n/t

[deacon]

19. To pretend that they are doing something. n/t

[JBoy]

20. Because Britney refuses to show up.

[Orsino]

21. To avoid real work.

Every issue you mentioned infringes on the property rights of the corporations who own Congress.

[Thothmes]

22. They evidently do not have anything better to do.

[NC_Nurse]

23. Because they're chickenshits.

They don't have the courage to address the real issues and make the hard choices.

[Blue Congress]

24. Congress needs to be replaced

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. Pursuing entertainers/celebrities is a good way to convince people they're "doing something".

Other than attending fund raisers that is. As Mark Twain said of congress..

"All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity."

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."

"I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring in higher prices than any in the world."

"Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time."

"To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman."