As usual, Jason Whitlock of FoxSports.com has in interesting take on the whole Clemens debacle. In his article today, he blames the political process for muddying the water in yesterday's hearing. He noted that who backed who basically broke down along party lines. I guess I noticed it, but didn't really want to think of this as a political issue. Is Roger Clemens a Republican? He must be; it seems that almost every Republican on the committee sided with him. We thought that Roger was up there glad-handing on Capital Hill before the hearings to generate some good will and offer up some photo ops. From the way the hearing went, I'd say he was more offering up campaign contributions to whoever supported him. What does McNamee have on the Democrats? It seems as though all of them supported the former cop gone bad! Did he get a buddy from the Force to open the files on some of these guys, or what? Just questions, folks. I have no inside knowledge, I promise!
I find the way the thing went down to be totally despicable! These guys are our elected officials, are they not? These guys are supposed to act in a bi-partisan fashion with a non-political subject, aren't they? Were the Pubs in opposition to the stance of the Dems just because it was Dems espousing it? Were the Dems doing likewise? Someone make me King for a day, will you? I'd have these guys back on the bus to Topeka so fast they'd drop all of their PAC money on the way out!
Why is it so hard to figure out who's lying and who's telling the truth? Don't juries rely on the testimony of jailhouse snitches as a matter of course? Who says the truth is the sole perogative of truthful people? Can't we find truth from any number of sources? If Pettit, Roger's wife, and Chuck Knoblach all agree with the McNamee version of the truth and only Roger disagrees (with his vested interest in hand, mind you), wouldn't you tend to believe that McNamee's version of events was closer to the truth than Roger's?
Clemens is fried, but that's not the only concern here. The behavior of the United States Congress is highly suspect at this point as well. No wonder we can't get anything done up there! - Dan
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As much as I love baseball, I am totally and completely [pardon the redundancy] put off by this whole mess. The is absolutely NO reason to be asking anyone about use or no use of unapproved steroids BEFORE they were unapproved. What a waste of time, money - all to destroy an icon's reputation. All involved in this mess [as my grandpa would have said] need to be sent out the wood shed and horsewhipped. Absolutely DUMB!
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