May 2nd, 2009

Lawmakers this week have finally settled down and are getting to the important things in life: college football. Yes, lawmakers in the House this week introduced legislation that would prevent the NCAA from calling a game a national championship unless it’s the outcome of a playoff. Whoo-hoo.

Should this really be what congress focuses on? I mean... it's not like we're in a shaky economy with a widening federal deficit, a need for updated health care, social security, and education systems, and many other important things, right? Oh wait, yeah we are.

I understand lawmakers do have personal lives and yes, may even get time to watch some college football... but to be completely honest, congress shouldn't be trying to make every little idea in their head into a law. Congressional leaders should be level-headed and responsible... as well as intelligent. As far as I know, the constitution doesn't provide for adding rules to sporting organizations... even when applying the Necessary and Proper clause and the Commerce clause.

Sometimes representatives go too far, sometimes they're stupid, and other times, they're just plain ignorant. Rep. Joe Barton of Texas: you, sir, are all three. (Maybe your governor had the right idea. Perhaps Texas would be better off without the rest of the states. Don't let Oklahoma hit you on the way out.)