Who buys into this stuff?

So Rep. Tom Davis, R-VA, thinks that a baseball player's possibly false statement to Congress might be worthy of a perjury investigation.

"As a practical matter, perjury referrals are uncommon," Davis told The Associated Press. "Prosecutions are rare. But this is a high-profile case, so I think it will get an honest look-see. I don't think anyone can avoid it.

"If we did nothing," he added, "I think we'd look like idiots. Don't you?" (Emphasis supplied)

Okay... let me see if I understand this. John Bolton can perjure himself before Congress on a matter of national security (last time I checked false written statements aren't exempt from the definition of perjury...) and that's not a "high-profile case" worthy of "an honest look-see"? But, a guy who plays a friggin' ball game (admittedly for a shitload of money...) might be worthy of a perjury investigation by Congress because he might have taken a substance which might have made him better able to hit a little round ball harder with a stick as he played a game (again, admittedly for a shitload of money)?

Hello!! You look like idiots, Congressman!

Rep. Davis is chair of the House Government Reform Committee, of course. And it is under that auspices that he's talking about investigating Rafeal Palmeiro. But, Davis is also a member of the House Homeland Security Committee. Surely that leaves him in an ideal position to weigh the relative merits of these two cases. And he chooses to pursue the guy who literally plays with a ball and stick for a living?

Speaking of baseball and Congressman Davis... Tom Davis is the one who said that Major League Baseball shouldn't grant it's DC franchise to an investment group which included George Soros, thereby tilting the field in favor of president Bush's friend, fundraiser and former business partner in the Texas Rangers - Fred Malek. Not only are Soros and Malek peers, albeit on opposite ends of the ideological/political spectrum, but Malek engaged in anti-semetic activities at the request of and on behalf of president Nixon, an infamous anti-semite. Yet this same Congressman Davis who did his damnedest to help Mr. Malek win the MLB franchise deal is also the same Congressman Davis who made a big show out of publically repudiating the Malaysian Prime Minister for making anti-semetic statements.

I guess ol' Tom only cares about Jews when it's not one of Bush's cronies that's been anti-semetic.

Congressman, your partisanship is stunningly obvious and yes, you look like a two-faced, double-dealing idiot.