When Rocket Roger Went to Congress

Representative Tom Lantos, Democrat of California, died this past month at the age of 80. We remember Lantos for many things – not all of them admirable - but we remember him today as the man who gazed at the very first of these idiotic steroid hearings in 2005, and called it "a theater of the absurd." Roger Clemens's face-off with Congress officially moved the discussion beyond the absurd and placed it squarely in Bush Country. Before we discuss one word of the tax-funded idiocy at Rep. Henry Waxman's House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, let's concede that there are only about 1,500 ways that the committee's time could be better spent. They could be asking why the Bush Administration is so keen on bugging our phones, granting no-bid contracts to Dick Cheney's oily pals or why they're underfunding the Veterans Administration. Hell, they could subpoena Bush on how he got that weird black eye a few years back. Anything but this. Virginia Republican Rep.Tom Davis--the ... [link]