Its Amazing Democrats Can Even Walk Around

[THUNDER HANDS]

When they keep shooting themselves in the feet so often.

Take this steroids hearing coming up today. You have good, solid Democrats like Elijah Cummings and Henry Waxman who are defending the decision to hold hearing on a topic that many people, even sports fans, deem frivolous.

In a time of war, in a time of business scandal, in a time of uncertainty over the future of bedrock government programs, the investigative wing of Congress takes on - a game?

Democrats should be up in arms about this!

Instead they go along too, like fucking little sheep who want to get their 15 minutes in front of the cameras.

We could use this as a wedge to show how pointless a Republican-controlled House is and how they're wasting tax dollars.

But no, we have to go along for the ride too.

Its like this Party doesn't even care. Where the fuck is Nancy Pelosi and why did she allow Waxman and Cummings to trumpet this sham of a hearing?

Its no wonder we keep losing. We're both spineless and brainless. If Democrats controlled congress I have no doubt that Republicans would make hay out of us holding an investigation into a frivolous topic.

They know how to fight.

Why don't we?

[liberal N proud]

1. It reeks of McCarthyism!

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2. Another ring has been added to the circus -

ESPN is playing this for all it can get. While channel surfing the other night I came across a forum on ESPN that a panel was debating the subject, "Should College Athletics be paid". What next? High School athletics?

I expect that issue to be on the senate floor soon!

[Vinca]

3. I agree. They should be holding hearings on the need for

affordable health insurance for tens of millions of Americans. If jocks want to prematurely end their lives by injecting steroids, who really cares? They live in a surreal world of limos and mansions and have nothing in common with regular people. The only way to stop the steroid use is to stop watching the sports and paying for anything connected to them until the competition is honest. (Note to young women: you can't go wrong marrying one of these oafs . . . think of the millions you'll inherit when they stroke out at 40.)

[demnan]

4. My letter to my Congressman

Dear Mr. Davis:

This country is at war on two fronts, federal deficits are out of control, the dollar is going into the toliet and you are worried about whether baseball players take steroids?

This just shows what a real boob you are. Why don't you just buy another state office for one of your mistresses instead?

[Leilani]

5. I think they're politically tone deaf

They just don't get it...they live in a comfortable cocoon...separated from real people...not knowing what we are experiencing & what our concerns are.

[aaronnyc]

6. political grandstanding is not necessarily a bad thing

As stupid as this whole thing, it is politically beneficial for Dems like Waxman to hold this hearing. This will be one of the highest rated congressional hearings in history. Millions of people who don't know the first thing about politics will actually be turning on CSPAN today, to watch this event. Henry Waxman, and everybody else on that committee understand that this hearing is the best chance they will ever have to be a household name (outside of political circles).

Besides, nobody is going to be sympathetic to Bud Selig or Don Fehr when they try to defend their acceptance of steroids in baseball; the harsher any congressmen is towards them, the more "joe sixpack" will see that congressman as "being on the side of the good guys."

It is on meaningless issues like this that Republicans have succesfully been able to portray themselves as some kind of pseudo-populists. They attack something which everybody hates (in this case steroids in baseball) and make a political issue out of it. I think that Democrats are being politically savvy not to allow "steroids in baseball" to become another Republican issue.