Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Congress Is Clearly Grandstanding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of a congressional committee Sunday threatened to push contempt proceedings against some of the biggest names in baseball if they fail to appear for a hearing this week about performance-enhancing steroids that have rocked Major League Baseball.
Rush: If I were Bud Selig, the commissioner ... I would form a committee and I would put on the committee Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Jason Giambi, Curt Schilling, and all these other people that have been subpoenaed, have these baseball players hold a hearing on how Congress has destroyed Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Now, this isn't to say that baseball shouldn't get its act together, but congressional oversight of this? Come on, folks, this is a day late and a dollar short. They have jurisdiction over some drug laws.
But my point is this has been going on a long, long time and it's clearly grandstanding, and there are other things that the government could be looking into like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid reform, so the Congress is not going to do that.
Well, I mean why not? Why not? If we're going to get a contempt of Congress charge let's go all the way. Let's start telling Congress how they should do what they should do. You know, these guys, they got enough to do without branching out here into the private sector and trying to tell us...
In the meantime, they've done enough to screw up enough things that they need to be looked into as well. And who's going to do it? Well, I'm volunteering. I'll join the committee of baseball players, chaired by Bud Selig, to look into the -- we won't have subpoena power, but we could still do some hearings. We'll do them on this show, we'll do the hearings on this show. I'll chair the committee if I have to.
How about we have hearings, since that's what the Democrats want to do, they want to do all these hearings on the baseball, let's have some hearings, let's make Democrats, let's have an investigation of the Democratic Party, we'll have hearings. We'll make Democrats stand up and swear. I mean put an oath on 'em out there, put the Bible, make 'em swear on an oath that taxes are not harmful and addicting.
Hey, folks, then the counterargument is hey, let 'em investigate baseball. The more they do that, the less they muck up the rest of our lives. So we could go -- (laughing) -- if all Congress does is conduct hearings, they don't pass any stupid, ridiculous laws. Of course, that's not altogether true because some stupid, ridiculous laws come out of hearings.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of a congressional committee Sunday threatened to push contempt proceedings against some of the biggest names in baseball if they fail to appear for a hearing this week about performance-enhancing steroids that have rocked Major League Baseball.
Rush: If I were Bud Selig, the commissioner ... I would form a committee and I would put on the committee Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Jason Giambi, Curt Schilling, and all these other people that have been subpoenaed, have these baseball players hold a hearing on how Congress has destroyed Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Now, this isn't to say that baseball shouldn't get its act together, but congressional oversight of this? Come on, folks, this is a day late and a dollar short. They have jurisdiction over some drug laws.
But my point is this has been going on a long, long time and it's clearly grandstanding, and there are other things that the government could be looking into like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid reform, so the Congress is not going to do that.
Well, I mean why not? Why not? If we're going to get a contempt of Congress charge let's go all the way. Let's start telling Congress how they should do what they should do. You know, these guys, they got enough to do without branching out here into the private sector and trying to tell us...
In the meantime, they've done enough to screw up enough things that they need to be looked into as well. And who's going to do it? Well, I'm volunteering. I'll join the committee of baseball players, chaired by Bud Selig, to look into the -- we won't have subpoena power, but we could still do some hearings. We'll do them on this show, we'll do the hearings on this show. I'll chair the committee if I have to.
How about we have hearings, since that's what the Democrats want to do, they want to do all these hearings on the baseball, let's have some hearings, let's make Democrats, let's have an investigation of the Democratic Party, we'll have hearings. We'll make Democrats stand up and swear. I mean put an oath on 'em out there, put the Bible, make 'em swear on an oath that taxes are not harmful and addicting.
Hey, folks, then the counterargument is hey, let 'em investigate baseball. The more they do that, the less they muck up the rest of our lives. So we could go -- (laughing) -- if all Congress does is conduct hearings, they don't pass any stupid, ridiculous laws. Of course, that's not altogether true because some stupid, ridiculous laws come out of hearings.
