MIKE AND THE MAD DOG HAVE TREED CRAZY CHRIS SHAYS
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DWT doesn't write much about baseball except when Ken gets all worked up about something that's usually over my head. Yesterday, one our our Blue America partners, John Amato, called me half a dozen times about some guys I don't know anything about back East. One is named Mad Dog and they were all worked up about Chris Shays and steroids and baseball. Besides running Crooks & Liars, John has a serious and well-respected Yankee blog, Pinstripe Alley and I know he knows what he's talking about. He kept insisting all day that this Mad Dog and his partner on WFAN were destroying Shays. John wrote a post about it at C&L today and now I'm starting to understand why this is such a big deal.
This sports talk radio show is amazing. Watch this video; it's a riot-- and it certainly is easy to figure out which one is Mike and which one is Mad Dog. Mad Dog just thanked God for Henry Waxman and Elijah Cummins. Mad Dog lives in CT-04, Shays district and he endorsed Jim Himes, the Blue America candidate. Watch this video:A few things are clear, aside from the viciously partisan way the Republicans have approached this whole steroids mess, which should not be a Democratic or Republican issue, just a problem that needs to be solved by cool heads. Chris Shays has the elats cool head of anyone involved; what a clown! We endorsed Jim Himes long before this latest (third?) strike against Shays because it was apparent that the residents in Connecticut's 4th CD need a focused and consistent representative who has his priorities straight.
The whole idea of Shays on the Oversight Committee is a scandal. He's been an absolute buffoon, giving a free pass to Eric Prince and Blackwater, murderous mercenaries who are disgracing America daily and making the country less safe. Shays may see Eric Prince as doing a "perfect job" but he is going haywire about Brian McNamee and Roger Clemens. The guy is out of his gourd.
I think an awful lot of residents of Shays' Connecticut district who may not have been paying attention to what an atrocious job Shays has been doing as a Bush rubber stamp-- of 63 votes regarding Iraq, Shays broke with Bush only twice, both on insubstantial issues-- will hear about this latest example of their congressman's derangement. Lucky for them they have someone of Jim Himes' quality to replace him with.
Labels: Chris Shays, Connecticut, Jim Himes
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 7:21 PM
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Great clip! Both Clemens and his trainer look bad in this thing but there's a subtext in the partisan divide that shows the Repugs going after the trainer and supporting Clemens. First of all, Clemens is a longtime buddy of both Dubya and Daddy Bush. This goes back to the days when Dubya owned the Texas Rangers and became a good friend of Clemens. Second, I enjoyed seeing Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana tear apart the trainer sleazo, but, hmmm, aren't there some big Pharma companies in Indiana. Coincidence? I doubt it! After all, some of the biggest stars in sports are poster boys and girls for the results that can be achieved through the use of Big Pharma's products. To them and their lapdogs in Congress, it's "how dare they damage the reputations of our sports hero customers and, by connection, our product"!
The other observation I offer is that doesn't Congress have more pressing business on it's plate. I don't want to see high school athletes ruining their bodies and lives, but, these hearings smack of grandstanding.
http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/late-nite-fdl-get-shays-out-get-himes-in-there/
Howie! You got scooped by FDL.
That's what you get for not being a BB fan! ;)
VG
Mike & the Mad Dog are just carnival barkers. They don't know as much about sports as they'd like to believe. When Joe Torre was first hired, Mike was apoplectic(ask John about it). Look what happned during Torre's term as Yankee manager. Anyway, it's great they unloaded on Shays. The more the merrier as far as I am concerned.
omg McNamee's lawyer sez the preznit will pardon Clemons due to their long family friendship, and that Old Bush called Clemons to tell him what a great job he did.
Pretty clear where the partisanship on this issue must be coming from -- The Dauphin told his minions how to behave, and (as usual) they did so without thinking.
More of this Bush-Deranged GOP, please.
Remember when the Dems took impeachment "off the table" claiming that they had more important legislation to work on?
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