Congress investigates steroid use in sports. Is it a diversion?

I would think their time might be better spent censoring DeLay for his many lies and mistakes.

many years in Congress does permanent brain damage.

2006 should really be about driving incumbents out. Yes, incumbents of both parties. The Founders did not support the concept of "career" politicians.

The House of Reps, in particular, is supposed to have ongoing turn over turn over turn over. Or we get them acting like this - absolutely crazy! Steroids in sports - supoenaing people who are essentially dead - trying to amend the constitution to discriminate against people - what rot, to say nothing of their total abdication of their responsibility to be the sole body embodied with the power to take the country to war and all the other malevolvent, anti-people things they've done. This kind of crap is why we get a chance to throw the bums out every two years.

Several people called in to Washington Journal this morning & said the same thing.

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away from something else.

I think it's just grandstanding, a way of politicking to say, "See, we care about American culture and morality."

Like so many other things they do. Not necessarily serious, or apt. Good for headlines and positive news stories.

The state of the union speech sets the agenda in Washington, so this is what we get from some pointless grandstanding on Bush's part.

Has anyone see the Black Bush skit on Chapelle's show? In one part a reporter asks him about how badly things are going in Iraq and Black Bush says, "You all are trying to distract people from the real issues here. Gay people are getting married!" That's always Bush's scam.

In my opinion, there are bigger issues to worry about than steriod use in sports, especially at this point in our history with the country so divided.

there's two things to remember.

1. Minus Social Security they have gotten just about everything they wanted to get on the table and have passed it the past couple of weeks. Namely the Bankruptcy and ANWR bills. So to them they are getting to the important issues that THEY want passed and are passing them with ease.

2. Steroids in Sports is a legitimate issue even if it shouldn't take a whole day of Congressional hearings to address them. As a Baseball fanatic I was pleased that they made the players look like villians if they did not renounce the drugs and the same with the MLB and the Union. There probably would be an easier way to deal with this and that would be to pass an amendment to anti-trust laws that enforces drug testing in professional sports organizations which takes this out of the hands of the leagues and unions.

Tom Davis mentioned in his opening testimony yesterday that Baseball was not the only sport that will be looked at for steroid abuse. I think that's great if he's serious because it keeps the issue that we need to ween steroids out of the hands of kids.

But if he were to call another sports group to be a panel, he needs to call the WWE. With roiders like HHH, Batista, Chris Masters, etc., etc., etc. on the roster currently, the promotion hasn't been bigger or more roided up since the end of the 1980s when Vince McMahon got caught up in the steroid trial with the Justice Dept.

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Bush set for them.

Bush didn't put that crap in the SOTU address for the hell of it, did he?

And, by the way the Feds are going after the people surrounding Barry Bonds, I would not at all be surprised to learn that Bush is trying to stop Bonds from becoming the all-time home run leader.

(No, I'm not joking.)

Ask yourselves how many times you've seen the Feds trying to get drug DEALERS to roll over on drug USERS. If you're like me, this is the first time. Why?

one big diversion after another and most people fall for it.