Let me get this straight. Shamelessly defy a Congressional subpoena regarding jeopardizing the safety of clandestine operatives, and nothing happens. (See: Rove, Myers, et. al). Lie or conveniently forget everything about politicizing the Justice Department under oath, and nothing happens. (See: Gonzales, Goodling, et al).
But fail to rat out a fellow teammate regarding the breathlessly important issue of steroid use in baseball, and you go to jail? The answer for poor Miguel Tejada, apparently, is a resounding yes.
At this point, Congress' tagline borrows from one of the MLB's biggest sponsors: Beating up on a bunch of greedy, dishonest ballplayers to score cheap political points?: Priceless. For everything else: (like preventing horrible abuses of power by the executive branch, serving as an actual check and balance, and maintaining any sense of dignity) there’s complete impotence and incompetence.
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