As much as I detest the idea of that juiced-up asshole Barry Bonds breaking the great Henry Aaron's home run record, and as disgusted as I am with all the steroid-aided statistical milestones set in recent years, I reject the argument that the public interest is best served by a full-blown congressional inquiry into 'roids in sports. It's not like there aren't more pressing issues that require their attention.
Of course, by now I'm aware that in this Congress, as in the Bush White House, there are always ulterior motives for actions that appear on their surface to be benign, benevolent, or just plain odd. To me, this one always fell in the last category. I couldn't quite figure it out. I thought for a while that they might be using the steroid issue as a catalyst for re-igniting the drug war; but that didn't quite make sense because in order to launch an all-out crusade, they would have to rely on Bush as a point-man; and Bush is vulnerable not only on his own past drug use but also on the issue of steriods in baseball, given that Jose Canseco (and, possibly, several other Rangers) shot them up right under his nose.
Then the other day I read this, and it all clicked. Their true objective, or one of them at least, is to use steroids as an excuse to launch an assault on organized labor. In order for Congress to interfere in the drug policy of a private company that employs union labor, they must first change Federal law governing collective bargaining agreements. Thus what appears to be a good-faith effort to clean up the national pastime is really just another battle in the right-wing war on the New Deal. First Social Security, now the Wagner Act.