outofplace
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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.
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.