It has taken a great mass of bone-headed thinking coming out of DC to bring me out of my blogging hiatus. I'm talking about the steroid scandal in professional baseball, and Senator McCain's threat to introduce a steroid ban in Congress. Even Pres. Bush has weighed in, and it seems there is support for such thing on the hill. I doubt that this will happen, it's just a threat to force MLB to clean up its own act. But in the mean time, I'd like our elected 'servants' to cite the part of the Constitution that allows the Federal government to regulate baseball.
Sure. Not that McCain and company care one whit about the Constitution, but our own Governor Owens has volunteered to bypass that issue by threatening to test visiting baseball players here in Colorado:
"Just as every state regulates boxing, a state could do the same thing for baseball," Owens said.
Two short points to note from the Governor's statement; first that if the rules of a children's game are subject to government intervention then is there anything that's not?
Second, see how one small piece of government encroachment, in this case boxing regulation, really does create a slippery slope of advancing government control.
Bill Owens is making noise for the sake of politics, nothing more: His term as pseudo-governor soon runs out and he is fishing for a new gig.
Just like Mayor Depends, a.k.a. Wellington Webb, former mayor of Denver, who is spending the weekend in Florida, auditioning for the role of head nutjob of the Democratic Party.
We need a separation of Sport and State.