Discussion for article #227911
“This has gone on too long. It is getting too bad. And these teams have to set an example for the rest of society.”
The Senate and Country should set an example also. I would say you have remained in office too long.
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If you’ve lost Dianne Feinstein, NFL, you’ve lost, well, Dianne Feinstein. Nobody really cares what she says–she’s a tool. Interesting, though, that she seems to suddenly find it necessary to appear relevant.
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Get ready for televised hearings, as if these people have nothing better to do.
Is there anything these Statist don’t believe is the business of the U.S. Congress?
Yes, god forbid the government takes steps to enforce the laws they have written. How dare they stick their nose in these capitalist enterprises’ conspirings to obstruct justice by throwing their money and power around to reduce or remove sentences for their offending players? Truly, they go too far.
That said, it’s kinda sick how politicians will latch onto and politicize any current event to gain our ADD riddled attention. Many people believe domestic violence is a problem that we do not have the adequate infrastructure to address, though. You’ll be hearing about it for a while.
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This is a clear sign Goodell has lost war hawks.
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Indeed – but then again, so has the military violence that fills your coffers with riches.
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Of course.
Making the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes, for one.
Taking steps to replace a military budget that exceeds the next fifteen or more nations combined with investments in sustainable energy independence, the lack of which is the preeminent threat to our national security and our economy.
The “statists” as you call them have no taste for doing what every other industrialized nation on earth does, namely, establishing trade policies that advantage, not disadvantage, their own citizens.
Same goes with a national health care system.
Or anything that might keep a corporation-who-is-a-person from privatizing the profits and socializing the losses. Or might force those virtual people to honor the responsibilities of citizenship in any dimension.
Statists my pimpled white ass.
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I’d just like to comment that, I did vote for Sen. Feinstein – and that vote was defensive. Anything is better than a republican.
I believe very strongly that if a player is arrested, they should be suspended and if they are convicted that ends it
So if you are convicted of a crime, you can never work again – except as a better [penitentiary taught] criminal… I guess.
Won’t dealing with the NFL eat into the time Congress has set aside for investigating Benghazi?
Wait, sorry. Didn’t mean to type “investigating.” Typo. I meant “milking.”
The federal government has nothing to do with enforcing assault and battery in an Atlantic City Casino. The federal government has nothing to do with how the NFL, a private organization, deals with players personal conduct. The problem with the left is they believe the federal government should run every single aspect of our society, with the exception of abortion.
What does this have to do with taxes, the military budget, trade policies, etc…? Of course it has nothing to do with it, so why doesn’t those who have been hired to govern the Federal Government start doing their jobs and stop injecting themselves in things that are none of their business.
They are not elected to govern the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc…
Isn’t she Head of the Senate Foreign Intelligence Committee? I would
be more impressed if she came out and said that “NSA’s Domestic
Spying Problem Has Gone On Too Long.” As far as domestic violence,
we have plenty of laws both state and Federal on the books, but getting
law enforcement and the judicial system to do something about it is
the problem.
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Actually, Atlantic City is in a different state than Baltimore, thereby, having crossed state lines, the assault is a federal crime. Obstruction of Justice is a federal crime as well, whether or not the private organisation decides to internally reprimand the offender. Furthermore, she, nor any other member of the federal government have written/proposed legislation for the allocation of federal funds or creation of infrastructure to enforce state domestic abuse laws. She, an individual, is merely wagging her finger and telling them to “do the right thing.” Apparently now federal officials cannot even speak of state or local matters without exerting the overreaching influence of the federal government.
There are many things within the NFL (and other professional sports leagues) that have gone on too long, besides the domestic violence issue (keep in mind, fighting is one main reason why people go see NHL games). There’s the concussion issue, where the NFL engaged in behavior similar to the tobacco companies. There is the fact that the NFL has no problem with a team, in 2014, being named the “Redskins”. And there is the continuing shakedown of cities and states to get them to pay for stadiums (never mind that these teams are massively profitable and are owned by billionaires, they want taxpayers to fund their palaces). I am so sick of this crap I could vomit.
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I’ve become so cynical about Congress and its ability to get anything done I laugh when I read that that somebody or other says “there needs be a law passed . . .” or any congress critter explains that he or she has introduced legislation to do something or other. Dealing with the NFL (or any substantive issue) and enacting laws would eat into the time Congress is in recess.
Flag it and bag it.
jw1
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Stadiums are paid for with public funds.
And NFL and MLB tax exempt statuses? We taxpayers pay for-- and by proxy politicians DO then have governance.
So in effect yes, the government SHOULD have a say in those sports leagues’ business.
jw1
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Don’t worry. Congress has adjourned until after the election. You know the entire month of August off and 10 working days in September wears a guy out. So they’re gone until a week after the election. 10 working days out of the last 3.5 months works them up into a lather
The shaded days are the days the House is in session and able to vote on legislation. I would not have minded having this lax of a work schedule when I was working.
Why are politicians getting involved in this aspect of sporting affairs? Don’t they have more important things to act on? (One would think so.)
But if they really want to get involved, cancel Major League Baseball’s Anti-Trust Exemption. That moldy old bit of romanticism (baseball as national pastime, not big business) is long past due. Yet they won’t.
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