Waxman’s four-hour waste-a-thon
The clown Congress strikes again. In case you needed more confirmation that Democrat Rep. Henry Waxman is a phenomenal waste of taxpayers’ time and money, here you go:
A day after a dramatic, nationally televised hearing that pitted Roger Clemens against his former personal trainer and Democrats against Republicans, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said Thursday that he regretted holding the hearing in the first place.
The chairman, Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, said the four-hour hearing unnecessarily embarrassed Clemens, who he thought did not tell the truth, as well as the trainer, Brian McNamee, who he thought was unfairly attacked by committee Republicans.
“I think Clemens and McNamee both came out quite sullied, and I didn’t think it was a hearing that needed to be held in order to get the facts out about the Mitchell report,” Waxman said.
“I’m sorry we had the hearing. I regret that we had the hearing. And the only reason we had the hearing was because Roger Clemens and his lawyers insisted on it.”
The decision to hold the hearing had been made in early January, as Clemens was publicly challenging the veracity of the Mitchell report. But Waxman said he and Tom Davis of Virginia, the ranking Republican and former chairman of the committee, decided by last Friday that they did not need to conduct the hearing as scheduled because depositions taken last week from Clemens, McNamee, Andy Pettitte and others were thorough, as was the committee staff’s own investigation, and that a hearing would not provide a great deal more insight.
“Roger Clemens’s lawyers told us he wanted the opportunity to make his case in public,” Waxman said. “He had his opportunity.” Now, Waxman added, 90 percent of the people being asked their opinion of the hearing were stating that they did not believe Clemens.
Waxman’s regrets, and his assertion that Clemens’s side was responsible for the hearing taking place, was assailed last night by Clemens’s lead attorney, Rusty Hardin, who said Waxman’s statements were “unbelievable, disingenuous and outrageous.”
“He is the one who created this circus in the first place,” Hardin said of Waxman, contending that Clemens and his lawyers had asked several weeks ago for the hearing to be called off, only to be rebuffed by Waxman’s staff.
Waxman isn’t the only idiot squandering public resources on congressional showboating, of course.
Ditto to what James Mitchell at the Dallas Morning News said this morning:
And let [this] be a cautionary note to Arlen Specter, who['s] making more noises about investigating the NFL and the Patriots on Spygate.
It’s the battle of the crapweasels.
Geoffrey Norman skewers the Clemens circus and stupid Washington priorities.
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And the Republicans are about to have their turn with the NFL. It’s pathetic.
Not the whole Republican Party–just Arlen Specter. And he doesn’t have a lot of admirers here.
But I agree. It’s another waste of time.
Yup.
If Congress wants to investigate professional sports, why don’t they investigate what makes soccer so frickin’ boring?
With all the problems we have in this world, do they really think our top priority is a bunch of over paid athletes on drugs?
What a waste of valuable time and money.
AMEN to TexasTiger #4. I photographed a soccer game on one occasion, and even with something else to do (run the camera) I was B-O-R-E-D.
A couple points.
1. Democrats do not have a patent on time wasting in Congress. Think Terry Schiavo, for example.
2. Drugs in sport is a real issue, not so much because it’s cheating in baseball, but because these pros are role models for kid athletes. I do not want my kids thinking they should take steroids to get better at baseball.
3. Republicans are sensitive to the steroids in baseball issue because the President was on the wrong side of this issue as a baseball owner.
Don’t we have more important pressing issues right now? Like…how to stop wasteful spending programs? Lower taxes? Improve the economy? Restore the value of the dollar? Eliminate Medicare fraud. Figure out better solutions for retirement besides social security to name a few?
They claim it has to do with the influence the athletes have on high school aged kids.
So once again it’s…(all together now)…For the children!!
That’s a PARENTING issue, not a government issue.
They spent valuable time on this performance theater while allowing the FISA to expire today. Nothing like putting the safety of American citizens above full filling your need of getting in front of the cameras while conducting useless investigations. Congress is made up of some really serious attention whores.
I’m going to dissent a little here, at least with regards to the NFL, even with full knowledge that Specter is grandstanding the issue. But, if the NFL:
1) Want protection from the federal government in the form of the anti-trust exemption they currently have;
2) Wants the Federal government to force Time Warner Cable and other cable companies into binding arbitration in order to force them to carry the NFL Network instead of letting the free market work; and
3) Wants the public to fund their stadiums (as they do in a plurality, if not a majority of NFL cities)
… then they should have to answer to the government.
If an entity is going to ask for extra benefits from the government, then those extra benefits should come at the price of extra scrutiny. If they don’t want the extra scrutiny, then they can give up their anti-trust exmemption, they can stop whining to the Feds to force the cable companies to take the NFL Network at prices they are unwilling to pay, and stop taking public money to fund their mega stadiums. Until they do those things, they have no sympathy from me.
Specter doesn’t qualify as a Republican. He would be just another Democrat show-boating.
Specter is making this into a personal crusade. With him, it boils down to two things: His biggest campaign contributor is Comcast, who has been fighting with the NFL over the broadcast fees for the NFL Network. Second is that Specter is mad that his favorite team lost the Super Bowl to the Patriots in 2004. This is a guy who is a regular caller to Philly sports talk radio. It’s a personal vendetta and the fact that Chris Shays is going to go along with it and give the ok for travel expenses for witnesses is absolutely nuts.
Waxman is another fool. Regardless of thinking the hearings were a waste of time, both Clemens and McNamee testified under oath and one of them was lying so he can’t just sweep the hearings under the rug.
I resent your comparing overpaid, overgrown children sticking needles in their ass and playing a game with the debatable ethics of killing a living, breathing, defenseless woman against her parent’s wishes.
All:
Specter-Leahy aren’t investigating drugs in the NFL. They’re investigating the New England Patriots film crew.
That is a bipartisan waste of time.
The biggest travesty in professional sports – by far – is not doping, not cheating…
You want to investigate something…. how about investigating why it costs me $12.50 at the food stand for a hot dog and a cup of beer.
Now THAT’S a travesty!
I think Mookie might be a fellow Patriots fan.
Part of me is sympathetic towards these hearings because the sweetheart anti-trust exemptions these sports get need to have some sort of accountability tied in.
But, yeah. Who cares? I hate Roger Clemens with every fiber of my being, but I acknowledge there are more important things to be concerned about.
And blaming Democrats is pretty silly. Republicans trotted out a whole load of baseball players back in 2005 to talk about steroids.
I’m a Foxborough-dwelling Pats fan Rusty.
How can Specter justify looking into not illegal activity, but a rules-of-the-game violation?
Amen mojoe.
Sorry, lgm. It was the players’ union–not Bush, the owners or Republicans–that blocked implementation of an effective steroid testing program.
Because of the anti-trust exemption. Congress can always hold that over the heads of the NFL and MLB.
It’s still a waste of time. Certainly worse than the steroid investigations. And Specter bringing this up two days before the Super Bowl is bad form.
Ditto. You are taking what a troll says and pointing out the obvious. Your point is well taken and the majority of us who have brians get it. Thanks
It is best to not feed the troll or, as I like to put it:
I G N O R E
H I M
How the heck does that rat-faced little gerbil-brained self-appointed “investigator” hold his job?
Has he ever doen ANYTHING productive in his life?
This guy abuses congressional investigatory powers for political witchunts of peopl ebetter than him to pull them down.
He reminds me so much of Wesley Mouch from Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”.
I might believe you if there were evidence of any draft legislation to revoke the antitrust exemptions. This is just grandstanding.
TexasTiger, the information you are using is from when Bush was president. LGM is referring to Bush’s time as owner of the Texas Rangers. Although all owners turned a blind eye to steroid use, Texas was one of the teams (along with Oakland and San Francisco) that had the worst problems.
There are reports of employees providing steroids and needles to players. Many of the players on Bush’s team have since been confirmed or highly suspected of steroid use.
I don’t blame Bush for this of course. He certainly has been towing a hard line on steroid abuse since becoming president. But his record as an owner was terrible.
These old bomb dodgers are just filibustering till they retire. Please folks vote out the incumbents this year so we can get some fresh blood in DC instead of these old codgers hooked up to life support. The presidential race is a wash, but if if we can remove the cronies of the three senators seeking the presidency then maybe something will get done that has the interests of the country first and foremost.
what! you mean you guys didnt enjoy a hearing on hearsay and baloney. I’m shocked I tell ya shocked!
Message to all sports:
easy fix, pee in a cup all players once a week. you cheat your out.
But please allow Mike Napoli (Angels Catcher) to use it, he couldnt hit a barn with a bazooka.
council members voting for impeachment and the congress critters and senate critters conducting hearings for baseball and football; and we are in a war for the very core principles that makes this country and its people envied througout the world. taxation clearly without any real representation. this generation needs its own boston tea party.
vote the incumbents out. and elect only those that will carry forward term limits. geesh.
Let’s be clear about something. If any laws were broken, it is the job of the Justice Department and the courts to drag these perps out of their high-dollar lifestyles for prosecution.
The job of lawmakers is to make laws, not enforce them. This grandstanding/showboating is getting beyond contemptible. Have they passed a full-blown budget yet? Nooooo! They’re too busy showing how important they are to their 14 C-SPAN viewers.
How about we hold Congress in contempt for a change?
Arlen Specter is a waste of everybodies time IMHO, he makes Chafee look like a die hard conservative.
If PA wants a dumb liberal to represent them they should elect one.
It figures that someone would ‘blame Bush’ for having some part in this. That is par for the course.
How about this? Blame the players.
How about this? Stop going to the games? Liberals want to boycott this and boycott that…. how about protesting outside MLB stadiums instead of Marine Corps recruiting stations?
I have treated many, many actual whores in the office and that is an insult to whores everywhere.
Waxman now REGRETS the hearing? Oh, really? I guess having a three ring circus and wasting taxpayer money should have been better spent on IMMIGRATION REFORM. You know, like, throwing out the 12-20 million intruders currently living off of the taxpayer’s largesse?
Hey, Waxman, I have one thing to say to you: TERM LIMITS. The very phrase strikes fear into the heart of the lying, pandering, career politican. If term limits were enacted we wouldn’t have blathering, idiotic buffoons like you sucking up even five minutes of press coverage.
No, Waxman, you are NOT LOVED. You and your sychophantic RINO and Dem colleagues who push this three ring garbage to prove “see, we are cleaning up Washington!” are what’s wrong with Washington. You want to do us all a favor? Throw yourself out of office so you can save your constituents the trouble (if liberal, far-left moonbats ever really come up for air in your district, I mean).
Except HGH* isn’t detectable in urine. Only on blood. And the steroids that BALCO created weren’t detected in tests for years.
As long as there is a market for illegal untraceable steroids, they will always exist. Testing isn’t the solution. Preventing the manufacture of these steroids is.
*I am always loathe to mention HGH since it isn’t even close to the same ballpark as anabolic steroids. But as long as they’re illegal, it should be noted that it’s hard to test for them.
lgm:
As others have said before me; the above is a parenting issue, and if you aren’t certain that you can properly parent your kids, don’t have any. I’m sick and tired of people expecting the Federal Gov’t to address their parenting shortfalls.
The only good thing about this case -and I’m crossing my fingers- is that hopefully the lone lobbyist for Major League Baseball will get fired for clearly being incompetent (since her client has been in front of more Senate Committees in recent months than ever before). Her name is Lucy Conrad, married to North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad (D). She is paid ~$300k per year as a lobbyist for MLB. She obtained her job after her husband won his Senate seat; when she “lobbied” the MLB commissioner to hire a lobbyist when they had previously had none. Nice gig if you can get it, available -of course- only if your husband’s a Senator.
Rusty:
It’s hard to blame the owners and managers for players’ steroid use or say they turned a blind eye when the collective bargaining agreement prevented teams from implementing any kind of testing regimen.
Lgm:
How did this hearing become about you and your children? A litte ego-centric of you don’t you think? If you, as a parent, are raising athletes to the status of cult heroes, you’re not much of a parent.
Oh, and to even compare this travesty to Terri Schiavo is the height of ignorance. Where’s your compassion for a woman whose parents chose to fight for her and what was best vs. a greedy, two-timing husband who didn’t care about her and who wanted her out of his life anyway. I thought public school educators like yourself weren’t as thick as most of your comments often are on this blog.
Rusty:
I’m sorry but to even suggest that baseball team owners are responsible for their players taking steroids or HGH is the height of hilarity. No one pointed a gun to Clemons’ head and made him take them. Why don’t you blame the cheaters and the cheaters’ union? Yeah, unions really are the bomb!
Total waste of time and taxpayer money in an effort to grandstand on t.v.. What’s next, a hearing on Heath Ledger’s death? How about a Congressional investigation into why Amy Winehouse won five Grammys despite her personal problems? Or should Rep. Waxman hold hearings on whether Britney Spears is insane or just a spoilt brat in need of a spanking?
The anti-trust exemption is no excuse. Let DOJ deal with any federal laws that were broken.
If these clowns want to play cops,( they are already good at the robber part), investigate the 1.6 Billion in Katrina/Rita fraud, or the 50 billion anually in Medicare/Medicaid fraud. If they need more to do there are 164 federal judgeships that need to be filled. 4 out of 6 commission seats at the FEC need to be filled (it is an election year). ect. ect.
In other words STOP GOOFING OFF AND GET TO WORK!!!
Yeah, I understand that rusty, my point was just test once a week, they will find a way to make it simple.
Arlen Specter knows about coverups. He is the genius who invented the “magic bullet” theory for the Warren Commission.
As far as Major League Baseball. We now know it is a fraud and has been for at least 20 years. I only want congress to do one thing and that is eliminate its anti-trust protection.
We say that, but do we mean it? WHY do we let congressman run for President while they are on the job? What other line of work would let you get paid for not working on your job?
Amazing! We can get investigations into alledged drug use in pro sports but can not get FISA passed or the fence along the boarder built.
I wonder if they will do an investigation into my nieghbor for having one trash bin instead of seperating it into recycle bins.
Good point. In fact that is exactly why my wife and I don’t have children. It is also why I resent paying for other people’s children.
I sometimes wonder if Congress is even aware that they have a lower approval rating than GWB.
I think the last time I looked, based on the numbers, people like burning jock-itch better than our current congress, and they have more trust that Paris Hilton is a virgin than that Congress will do it’s job.
(that’s what I heard anyway..)
These latest hearings are a perfect example of why.
On February 15th, 2008 at 1:02 pm, Mister P #44
Absolutly, they should have to resign before running for a higher office.
This is also a good argument for term limits.
Don’t reelect anybody. If every one did this, the douche bags would strat listening to the voters again.
And congress’s approval rating is what? It is no wonder why We the People hold them in such contempt. Fools, one and all, with Waxman, Pelosie, Reid, Kennedy and Specter leading the parade.
Um. No. The owners were profiting off of steroid abuse more than the individual players. Home runs lead to more ticket sales and television deals and that leads to more money. It leads to public financing of stadiums. It leads to owning a baseball team becoming the best investment in the world.
There is no way that owners didn’t know about steroid abuse. They chose not to do anything about it. And if the stories are true, steroid use was encouraged by team employees in Oakland and Texas.
Steroid testing began with complete cooperation between the owners and the union. Then, one year into the collective bargaining agreement, the owners pushed to increase testing and penalties.
Sorry, but that’s a no-no. The union gave them an inch and the owners took a yard. That’s when they started pushing back. They eventually relented anyways. But it’s the job of the union to make sure the owners don’t call backsies on their previous agreement. That’s a dangerous precedent.
Michelle, you are misremembering to include that something of substance did indeed happen at these hearings, Roger Clemens use of the words “misremember” and “mishear”. They are the new buzz words for blaming someone else and saying that they didn’t tell the truth.
Most members of Congress are sociopaths.
No conscience whatsoever.
They should be overthrown. Bet the bloggers on this site could accomplish much more than those idiots.
What exactly do they do? Waste time, mealy mouth opposing parties, whine, groan, and draw huge paychecks/benefits that most of us dream about.
Egotistical morons that need to go.
They have played all of us for fools.
We need to take action in each state and tell them that they represent the people and NOT their pockets.
If they do not, then they need to resign or be fired by the people!
This is nothin! Here in MN, the scum sucking legislators passed a resolution to place on the fall ballot an amendment that will require taxing all of us in MN to support arts among other sundry feel good projects (Can we say Folsom Street Arctic style?). This is that last straw for me, I am now officially an Objectivist. To heck with the Republican, Democratic Farm Labor, and other parties. I wish all they’d done here is investigate ball players.
I thought that, probably, went without saying.
BlameAmericaLast said (#10):
Think of your 16 year old kid watching sex on TV or doped up baseball players on TV. Which would you have him/her imitate? Sex, done properly, is harmless. Steroids are not.
Maybe that’s why conservatives want to keep sex off TV and liberals want to keep steroids off.
When Congress gets through with all the pressing issues of the day, like sports teams video-taping competitors, baseball players using HGH or steriods, can we expect them to get back to the miniscule things, like the GWoT, illegal immigration, etc.?
Is it just me, or does Waxman resemble a mouse? Or maybe a rat.
Any photoshoppers out there?
And…..that’s where you lose even me. I mean come on. Putting aside the fact that even safe sex is never 100% safe (anyone intellectually honest would have to admit that), you don’t think that there’s risk of emotional harm for those that engage in such behavior before they are mature enough to handle it?
I guess I see what your point was, but “harmless” is way way way way too strong of a word.
Hmmmmmm? Neither.
Idle question – in the entire history of the United States, has congress ever actually done the job they were hired to do? Except under duress?
Gayle:
I am so with you. I’m a military spouse and a NY absentee voter (sigh). I don’t think that Hillary has felt my pain or even cares how many folks both in the upstate and downstate regions of the state are paying a ransom in high taxes.
You want to hear something funny, Gayle? You (and probably many others) have never heard of this guy. Back in my old hometown of Ithaca, NY (you think Berkley is bad try this place) we have a socialist windbag of a congressman by the name of Maurice Hinchey. He’s been a congressman in this district for the past 30+ years (ever since I was a kid and I’m now 32 years old so this guy has been in office WAY TOO LONG).
Anyhoo, since I don’t like to digress and talk about liberal socialists too long… every time this guy was up for reelection I tried to vote him out of office (since I turned 18). Every time, no dice. I’m not sure what he’s done for our district or the upstate region. Jobs are still leaving and the only major employers are county, state, public schools and higher education (which tend to favor their fellow elitists as well as the public schools).
It’s not like some people don’t try to get rid of these scumbags. Some constituents have also grown complacent and I ironically sympathize with liberals voting for candidates who said they’d “end the war” but didn’t. Okay, maybe not as sympathetic but you get my drift.
I no longer vote in this district but I feel for my parents who have this windbag representing the far-left loons not the real, hard-working folks like my parents. Every time I think of this guy, I get a migraine… Hey, Michelle, do you have some medication handy?
What a clown this guy is…you libs gotta be proud to have this fool as your rep.
Nah. Waxman reminds me of Samuel J. Gopher on Winnie-the-Pooh.
My first thought whenever I see a picture of Waxman is Punxsutawney Phil poking his head out on Groundhog Day and being shocked by all the attention and immediately ducking back into his hole.
LGM:
Gotta love the moral relativism. Conservatives want to see responsible behavior on television. What kind of sex are you talking about? The responsible or irresponsible kind?
Do you want some t.v. teaching your kid how to have sex? Are you for real? I’m sorry but if I had a 16 year old (I don’t have kids yet) they certainly won’t be learning it from television. Your comparison is as illogical as your assertion that this hearing was an appropriate use of our tax dollars.
I hope you don’t have a teenager because from what I heard as a teacher they’re just as irresponsible as some adults I have known. Many kids think oral sex has no risk. Do you really want your kid to be sexualized at a younger and younger age or would you rather blather on about how sex is cool but juicing up is not?
I’m sorry but you give parents a bad name. If you have that kind of attitude with your kid, your family wouldn’t be the type of people I’d let my kid have any contact with.
You’re a dope. Please get a clue already.
I propose a daily drug test for each congressman at the beginning of the day. Should the test reveal any non prescription drugs, performance enhancing drugs or alchohol intoxication … that Congressman shall be forbidden to vote or participate in debate for that day. Wouldn’t it be fun to see these pillars of our society exposed for the phony human beings most of them truly are !
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the – Web Reconnaissance for 02/15/2008 A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.
ramdoug2002: I don’t think that one will ever work. Teddy hic…hic…Kenne…hic..dy would just sneak in an exemption for donkeycrats in the conference committee!!!!!
Well, steroids have legitimate medical uses too. so done properly, they are harmless. But I digress.
But I put part of your quote in empahasis for a reason. Because it’s a silly sounding statement. If this were a different website with lower content standards, I’d have all sorts of low-brow retorts.
Congress dealing with sports
Berkeley dealing with International affairs
Do any of these freaking people have a clue? Don’t answer…
Meanwhile, on the phone…
“One ringy dingy..”
“Hello?”
“Hello, al-Qaeda speaking, press one for Spanish, Two for Farsi, Three to get ready, now go, cat, go! Ha-ha, just our little jihadi joke, we here at Kill Central love Elvis. How may I assist you today?
“Is this call being recorded for ‘Quality Assurance’?”
“I can assure you no recordings are being made today, Congress took no action on FISA.”
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Let me see here…Article 1, Section 8….Congress shall have the power…yadda yadda yadda….taxes…blah blah credit….blah blah commerce AMONG the states (take your commerce clause and shove it, spineless, power hungry bastards)…post offices, counterfeiting, naturalization, piracies…..war and letters of marque….legislation over the District….
Nope, I can’t find a single reference to Major League Baseball, the Nation Football League, professional, amatuere, or organized sports period.
Hey Waxman, DO YOUR JOB!
hmmmm, did he think General Petraus was unfairly attacked by Democrats?
I watched the entire hearing (Having a deep rooted hatred for Clemens, I had to) and there was an interesting divide that was apparent right from the get go. Republicans sided with Clemens and Democrats with McNamee. It was even subtle. The only one on the committee who seemed to go after both equally was Rep. Elijah Cummings, who said right from the start that he had no idea why they were there in the first place.
Why does congress have a finger in this anyway? Baseball is entertainment, and a great source of revenue for the US Treasury, and the economy.
It’s like condemning big oil company profits, while ignoring the massive federal tax income it provides. Very hypocritical IMO.
Since sports is basically part of the great leisure and recreation industry, can we now expect congress to look into the out of control use of illegal drugs in the televison and movie industry? If not, why not?
Aren’t the actors and actresses often held up as role models for our youth? I think these hearing are nothing more than bad actors trying to look “involved and concerned,” only for political purposes, as usual.
(Gets out metaphorical drum)
Boom! TERM LIMITS FOR CONGRESS!
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Damn, I missed the vote that gave Roger Clemens and his lawyers the authority to have congressional hearings. I thought that was up to the peoples representatives.
A hearing such as this one is scary to me. This isn’t government of the people, by the people, or for the people.
This is government to catch the people!
Is it me, or does Waxman look like an extra from Whoville?
More like a human assembled by a committee, much like a wildebeest.
Actually, steroids done properly, i.e. as a treatment of some hormone deficiency, is quite safe. Unrestricted sex (which you appear to support), even done properly (definitions vary on this), could lead to various manias, addictions, and aberrant behaviors, such as pedophilia or bestiality, to name a few.
So your premise is incorrect. Or incomplete at best. Maybe we should just stop both. The idea that transcends politics is keeping our children safe, is it not?
But lgm stopped short of recalling that it is the liberals that seem to support the “recreational” use of other drugs
Ooops! Meant to delete the last line in editing!
I watched part of this hearing. Each one of these CEOs showed why they are a CEO and Waxman is a flunky politician. It’s just one useless hearing after another with this guy. He’s a joke, but since he’s from CA I guess he’ll be reelected.
This is pathetic. Why is this Congress’ problem? Or the taxpayers’ for that matter? Oh, yes, I forgot, Congress (and lgm) are suddenly concerned about steroids and HGH in sports because of its impact on children. Their concern is FOR THE CHILDREN.