Cheating Patriots coach faces more scrutiny

outofplace · May 15, 2008

zagoshe said:

Let's see -- unemployment in PA is high, jobs and people are leaving PA in droves, there are problems with infrastructure and a fight over privatizing the turnpike in the state, our country is embroiled in an awful and expensive war, gas prices are through the roof, health care costs are through the roof, they esimate that by the end of the year 1 in 5 homeowners will be in foreclosure, our jail system is way overcrowded mostly because of insane drug laws and illegal immigrants are putting a big strain on our economy and to top it off the Republican party is begnning to resemble the Titanic -- yet the primary thing on Arlen Specter's mind is a football team that may or may not have stolen signals to win a few games?

Does anyone else find this downright absurd? This guy should be kicked out of office -- or at the very least laughed out of Washington D.C.
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Absurd is a good word for it, but there are two separate debates there.

Yes, Specter's attention should be on far more important things. This is the same kind of ridiculous grandstanding we saw with the steroid hearings.

But the substance of what he is saying is not wrong. The investigation by the NFL was a joke, designed only to make this go away as quickly and quietly as possible rather than to find out how much the Patriots really broke the rules.

zagoshe · May 15, 2008

outofplace said:

zagoshe said:

Let's see -- unemployment in PA is high, jobs and people are leaving PA in droves, there are problems with infrastructure and a fight over privatizing the turnpike in the state, our country is embroiled in an awful and expensive war, gas prices are through the roof, health care costs are through the roof, they esimate that by the end of the year 1 in 5 homeowners will be in foreclosure, our jail system is way overcrowded mostly because of insane drug laws and illegal immigrants are putting a big strain on our economy and to top it off the Republican party is begnning to resemble the Titanic -- yet the primary thing on Arlen Specter's mind is a football team that may or may not have stolen signals to win a few games?

Does anyone else find this downright absurd? This guy should be kicked out of office -- or at the very least laughed out of Washington D.C.
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Absurd is a good word for it, but there are two separate debates there.

Yes, Specter's attention should be on far more important things. This is the same kind of ridiculous grandstanding we saw with the steroid hearings.

But the substance of what he is saying is not wrong. The investigation by the NFL was a joke, designed only to make this go away as quickly and quietly as possible rather than to find out how much the Patriots really broke the rules.
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Yes the investigation was a joke -- and?

The NFL is a private enterprise, it has broken no laws -- why is the federal government trying to get involved.

And please spare me the anti-trust exemption bullshit -- it is not a carte blanche for the federal government to stick its nose into other people's business just because.

outofplace · May 15, 2008

zagoshe said:

outofplace said:

zagoshe said:

Let's see -- unemployment in PA is high, jobs and people are leaving PA in droves, there are problems with infrastructure and a fight over privatizing the turnpike in the state, our country is embroiled in an awful and expensive war, gas prices are through the roof, health care costs are through the roof, they esimate that by the end of the year 1 in 5 homeowners will be in foreclosure, our jail system is way overcrowded mostly because of insane drug laws and illegal immigrants are putting a big strain on our economy and to top it off the Republican party is begnning to resemble the Titanic -- yet the primary thing on Arlen Specter's mind is a football team that may or may not have stolen signals to win a few games?

Does anyone else find this downright absurd? This guy should be kicked out of office -- or at the very least laughed out of Washington D.C.
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Absurd is a good word for it, but there are two separate debates there.

Yes, Specter's attention should be on far more important things. This is the same kind of ridiculous grandstanding we saw with the steroid hearings.

But the substance of what he is saying is not wrong. The investigation by the NFL was a joke, designed only to make this go away as quickly and quietly as possible rather than to find out how much the Patriots really broke the rules.
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Yes the investigation was a joke -- and?

The NFL is a private enterprise, it has broken no laws -- why is the federal government trying to get involved.

And please spare me the anti-trust exemption bullshit -- it is not a carte blanche for the federal government to stick its nose into other people's business just because.
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I'm not saying Specter should be doing the investigating, just that he is correct in his criticism of the NFL's investigation.

Oz · May 15, 2008

zagoshe said:

Let's see -- unemployment in PA is high, jobs and people are leaving PA in droves, there are problems with infrastructure and a fight over privatizing the turnpike in the state, our country is embroiled in an awful and expensive war, gas prices are through the roof, health care costs are through the roof, they esimate that by the end of the year 1 in 5 homeowners will be in foreclosure, our jail system is way overcrowded mostly because of insane drug laws and illegal immigrants are putting a big strain on our economy and to top it off the Republican party is begnning to resemble the Titanic -- yet the primary thing on Arlen Specter's mind is a football team that may or may not have stolen signals to win a few games?

Does anyone else find this downright absurd? This guy should be kicked out of office -- or at the very least laughed out of Washington D.C.
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Voters have definitely had their chances to kick him out through the years. They never take it, though.

Write-brained · May 15, 2008

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.

zagoshe · May 15, 2008

Oz said:

Voters have definitely had their chances to kick him out through the years. They never take it, though.
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He's a Republican who is moderate enough to keep his friends in his native Philly happy and conservative enough to not scare the hell 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......

Write-brained said:

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.
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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.

outofplace · May 15, 2008

zagoshe said:

Oz said:

Voters have definitely had their chances to kick him out through the years. They never take it, though.
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He's a Republican who is moderate enough to keep his friends in his native Philly happy and conservative enough to not scare the hell 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......

Write-brained said:

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.
Click to expand...

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.
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2. So? (Inside joke)

Big Chee · May 15, 2008

zagoshe said:

Oz said:

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

He's a Republican who is moderate enough to keep his friends in his native Philly happy and conservative enough to not scare the hell 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......

Write-brained said:

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.
Click to expand...

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.
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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.

Flying Headbutt · May 15, 2008

Specter continues to barrel down the road towards senility. He's the only one who gives a shit and at some point Goodell has to just tell him to STFU. No one else in the senate gives two shits about this, yet you'd think it's the biggest fucking thing going. This guy was behind the single bullet theory but he says this doesn't look right?

I want to know when the senile senior senator will admit that he's only putting the heat on the league as a payback for his pals at Philadelphia-based Comcast?

Herbert Anchovy · May 15, 2008

His blueblood constituents don't care what he does.

What a Congress this is.

Fenian_Bastard · May 15, 2008

Let me see, the mighty commissioner of the NFL has to tell the ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee to STFU?
Yeah, that works.

Flying Headbutt · May 15, 2008

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.

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