Congress has now release 2 different reports on Roger Clemens and whether he used steroids or not. At this point, steroids are becoming a partisan issue, with Democrats supporting Brian McNamee (Clemens former trainer) and Republicans supporting Roger Clemens with his claim that he didn’t use steroids but thought he was getting B12 shots (right!). The truth is that Roger Clemens used steroids and human growth hormone, that’s obvious. The other side of the coin is, it’s none of the government’s business. Dealing with steroids in baseball should be left to the MLB, and steroids in sports to the respective professional organizations such as NFL and so on. Having congress waste time and money to find out whether Roger Clemens used steroids is so far out of reach, it’s ludicrous.
This brings us to our next point, why is the USA congress wasting so much time and taxpayer money on hearings to find out if Roger Clemens used steroids? It’s amazing the American taxpayers who are in such deep economic problems are still putting up with this, but do they have a choice? Let’s face it, in the USA you can’t vote for your laws, you can vote for your representative, who end up spending all your taxpayer dollars on bullshit. Let’s look at the story below. Both Democrats and Republicans released reports, 100s of pages wide, on Roger Clemens and his steroid use in baseball. They wasted millions of taxpayer dollars on a debate that is so idiotic that people in other countries are taking a hilarity notice. Many in Europe are drawing funny cartoons of congress investigating steroids while the USA economy is collapsing behind them and people standing in soup lines. Obviously, EVERY single god damn minute the US congress spends on steroid investigations should be spent on fixing the USA economy and war in Iraq to start, then move to health care!
A month after House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., released a memo questioning whether former ballplayer Roger Clemens lied to Congress about his alleged steroid use, Republicans fired back Tuesday, releasing a report of their own that disputes some of the Democrats’ prior conclusions and likens the Democrats’ report to a “prosecutorial indictment” of Clemens.
The Republican rebuttal dismisses as irrelevant the Waxman memo’s outline of “seven sets of assertions, made by Mr. Clemens in his testimony, that appear to be contradicted by other evidence before the committee, or implausible.”
“The Democratic staff memorandum’s characterizations and conclusions regarding these other matters is simply not relevant to the core question of whether Clemens knowingly lied about using anabolic steroids and human growth hormone (HGH),” the minority report said.
The 109-page Republican report includes new testimony about Clemens’ former trainer Brian McNamee’s allegations that Clemens attended a 1998 party at then-teammate Jose Canseco’s house, Clemens’ statements that he received vitamin B-12 injections from McNamee, and McNamee’s accusations that Clemens developed an abscess on his buttocks, an injury that could have been the result of steroid injections.
It is the latest salvo in a bitterly partisan issue dating back to the pitcher’s contentious Feb. 13 hearing.