Congress sucks

Well let’s see. What has our congress been up to? While investigating something that they really have no roll in, we had the preening gasbags calling a couple of American citizens liars and ner-do-wells on national TV. But the preeners couldn’t get to the bottom of who was actually lying. So they did what our constitution calls for; they assumed one or the other was lying and announced it on TV; so much for due process and the presumption of innocence.

Had I been one of the preeners, first, I’d have grown my hair long to hide the lobotomy scar. But not having undergone the required surgery to become a preener, I’d have taken my 15 minutes and said:

Mr. Clemens and Mr. McNamee allow me to apologize to you for the conduct of the other members of this committee. As far as I know, it is not the purpose of this hearing to announce the guilt or believability of either of you here today. You both are private US citizens and the way the committee members have treated you here today is shameful.

Let me assure you that they do not always act this way. If it weren’t for Mr. Clemens’ appearance here today in front of the three one eyed monsters – the TV cameras – half of these gasbags wouldn’t have even bothered to show up. It is the sad habit of people of no particular talent or accomplishment to dump on those with talent and who have accomplished something. And if the no talent crowd can do that dumping on national TV, it’s all the better.

While these preening gasbags, whose collective knowledge of the game you two participate in is probably less than my 11 year old son's, sit here feigning high dudgeon about…what? Here’s what else is happening in this building.

The FISA bill that protects Americans from Islamo-terror-fascists is going to lapse. While these losers who think a slider is nothing more than a White Castle hamburger, deliver their inane ten second sound bites to cameras for the local six o’clock news, the law that allows US intelligence to gather information on the people who spend every waking minute plotting to destroy us, is set to expire.

Now why is that law going to be allowed to expire? Well after 9-11 the president asked the telecom companies to cooperate with the federal government in trying to prevent another attack. The telecom companies, thinking it was patriotic duty to help their country protect their fellow citizens, complied. Now lawyers who want to sue the telecom companies for violating the privacy rights of their customers, have donated 23 million dollars to one of the political parties. That money was donated by trial lawyers to ensure that the telecom companies do not get immunity for their cooperation with the government’s request after 9-11.

So America will be essentially blind so that trail lawyers can make gobs of money suing telecom companies for doing what the companies thought was their civic duty while America was under attack. Yet we sit worried about who stuck what into Mr. Cy 7s butt.

And let’s be honest, if Mr. Clemens had won just 77 games over a 4 or 5 year career – as good a record as that might be – he wouldn’t be sitting here right now. So much for another cherished right, equal protection under the law. But, how could any of the losers who comprise this committee look good beating up on an average player.

But Mr. Clemens is Mr. Cy 7. And if the losers can get him in their sights on the six o’clock news, why that would really be something. A know nothing do nothing gasbag dumping on the possibly the greatest pitcher of all time. I would have loved for Mr. Cy 7 to have challenged the members on the committee and their staffs to drug test.

And while we sit here under the glare of the white hot spot light preening for the cameras, looking into something that Mr. Selig, the baseball owners, the union and the justice department ought to be settling, our house colleagues are in a back room resurrecting the illegal alien amnesty bill. Our senate colleagues are rushing a Global Tax bill to the floor without hearings or the even the hint of deliberation. And one old coot of a senator is trying to make a name for himself by attacking the NFL.

I cannot believe that this body has 27% approval rating from our fellow Americans. It ought to be about .27%.