Cheating Patriots coach faces more scrutiny

[zagoshe]

Voters have definitely had their chances to kick him out through the years. They never take it, though.

He's a Republican who is moderate enough to keep his friends in his native Philly happy and conservative enough to not scare the heck out of the bitter voters in the center part of the state. That's a winning combination if I've ever heard one.....and PA might be the only state where the Democratic senator is more conservative than the Republican......

I don't mind Specter stepping up.

1. He's right. The commissioner's handling raised a lot of questions.

2. Who else is asking these questions, other than the press and the public? No one.

1. It is not the Federal Government's damn business how the commissioner handled it.
2. Whereas it is the job of the press, which covers the NFL, and the public, which pays good money to enjoy the NFL, to ask questions --- IT IS NONE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S DAMN BUSINESS AND THUS THEY NEED NOT ASK QUESTIONS.

Yeah. The government should only be there when it's time to ask us taxpayers to fund the building of those stadiums the NFL use.

I think my harshest critics on these threads would tell you that there is no way in heck I would ever support tax-payer funding of NFL stadiums.

Even so -- funding of stadiums is a local and state government issue --- not a federal government issue.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

He certainly should. What can Specter do all by his lonesome? No one else in the senate thinks Specter is up to anything else but a wild goose chase of some stupid sort.

Yes, Roger Goodell should use his mighty power to shut down the government.
If he gets a subpoena, he goes to Washington, or he goes to jail.

 

[zagoshe]

He certainly should. What can Specter do all by his lonesome? No one else in the senate thinks Specter is up to anything else but a wild goose chase of some stupid sort.

Yes, Roger Goodell should use his mighty power to shut down the government.
If he gets a subpoena, he goes to Washington, or he goes to jail.

And you think the fact that federal government has this power -- to put a law-abiding citizen in jail because he told them to mind their own business is good?

My God, you have much more in common with George W. Bush than even some of his staunchest supporters.....

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

He certainly should. What can Specter do all by his lonesome? No one else in the senate thinks Specter is up to anything else but a wild goose chase of some stupid sort.

Yes, Roger Goodell should use his mighty power to shut down the government.
If he gets a subpoena, he goes to Washington, or he goes to jail.

And you think the fact that federal government has this power -- to put a law-abiding citizen in jail because he told them to mind their own business is good?

My God, you have much more in common with George W. Bush than even some of his staunchest supporters.....

I think I saw the word subpoena in there, but I don't take the libertarian view of things in which any word is as good as any other one and the market will shake itself out.
Dumbass.

 

[zagoshe]

He certainly should. What can Specter do all by his lonesome? No one else in the senate thinks Specter is up to anything else but a wild goose chase of some stupid sort.

Yes, Roger Goodell should use his mighty power to shut down the government.
If he gets a subpoena, he goes to Washington, or he goes to jail.

And you think the fact that federal government has this power -- to put a law-abiding citizen in jail because he told them to mind their own business is good?

My God, you have much more in common with George W. Bush than even some of his staunchest supporters.....

I think I saw the word subpoena in there, but I don't take the libertarian view of things in which any word is as good as any other one and the market will shake itself out.
Dumbass.

I think I also saw the word jail in there, which is what happens if you don't answer a subpoena -- which means Specter and any other government official with a court at his backing has the ability to put any law-abiding citizen in jail for any damn reason they choose -- including not running their sports league the right way.

That's NOT a good thing....

Dumbass

 

[Big Chee]

He certainly should. What can Specter do all by his lonesome? No one else in the senate thinks Specter is up to anything else but a wild goose chase of some stupid sort.

Yes, Roger Goodell should use his mighty power to shut down the government.
If he gets a subpoena, he goes to Washington, or he goes to jail.

And you think the fact that federal government has this power -- to put a law-abiding citizen in jail because he told them to mind their own business is good?

My God, you have much more in common with George W. Bush than even some of his staunchest supporters.....

I think I saw the word subpoena in there, but I don't take the libertarian view of things in which any word is as good as any other one and the market will shake itself out.
Dumbass.

I think I also saw the word jail in there, which is what happens if you don't answer a subpoena -- which means Specter and any other government official with a court at his backing has the ability to put any law-abiding citizen in jail for any damn reason they choose -- including not running their sports league the right way.

That's NOT a good thing....

Dumbass

I hope you know NFL runs to the federal government to deal with Anti-trust laws and other matters.

To say the federal government has no place in this matter is pretty much a cop out in light of how often the government plays a role in the way the NFL operates.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Exactamundo.
That said, Specter will find exactly nothing.
I think the well's pretty much dry here.

 

[zagoshe]

Exactamundo.
That said, Specter will find exactly nothing.
I think the well's pretty much dry here.

At no doubt a very large cost to taxpayers once he impanels a "commission" to study the issue who will no doubt need to hire cronies, err, investigators and of course we'll need to hire some special prosecutors and pay for them to fly all over the country to interview people and attend football games, on taxpayer's tabs,......

Isn't big government great, I can certainly see why you are such a big fan of it......

And once again for the cheap seats -- the anti-trust exemption does NOT give the government the right to stick its nose into the NFL or baseball or any other enterprise whenever it chooses. I mean, what's next -- is Arlen Specter going to decide to investigate the rash of pass interference calls that hit the league recently?

This entire discussion is absurd, there is not one legitimate reason, other than grandstanding at taxpayer's expense, that the government needs to be involved in this.

 

[goalmouth]

As someone said, no one really cares what Specter does. And that applies to 99 percent of the Senators and probably more in the House.

 

[DemoChristian]

As someone said, no one really cares what Specter does. And that applies to 99 percent of the Senators and probably more in the House.

99 percent of the Senators...There are 100 Senators. Specter is one. That leaves...
I see what you did there.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

There will be no "commission" impaneled. Specter will quietly decline to take this to the Judiciary Committee some time next month.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Specter knows a few dusty back roads around the Constitution. Nixon once considered appointing him to the Supreme Court.